November 13, 2012
Taboos and Tattoos
A review of Jon Martin Watts’ Flights of Passage in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories. By Derek Newman-Stille In the short story Flights of Passage, Watts explores the social taboo against inbreeding and creates a society which can trace its descent entirely to one ancestor that crashed on their planet. This society, far from being made up of mutated or...