The Gray Prince - Jack Vance

Esta fue una de las primeras novelas de sci-fi que habré leído, cuando aún no le ponía atención ni siquiera al género sci-fi, sin embargo, ya era lo que más me gustaba cuando veía películas. Escribí este review en inglés no recuerdo porqué, pero aquí lo dejo. Seguro está mal, porque si hoy tengo mala gramática, seguro tenía peor en aquel entonces... lo iré corrigiendo conforme le vea errores. Si wachas uno, házmelo saber.

The Gray Prince review or why some man fall in love with the wrong woman.

I've read this one when I was 17 or so.

I just remember one point from this book due to a discussion about beauty standards and such.

The Gray Prince's story goes on a context where -at least- two species coexists in a perpetual conflict of the "Civilization vs Savagery" type: the Uldras (gray prince's specie) and Humans, which happens to be the rule class.

The Gray Prince is in love with a human, daughter of a big deal man. During the book, some one tells about how gross is that Uldra males fell in love with human females.

I know anything about Jack Vance or any other book he wrote, but by remembering that, we kind notice how this behavior is reproduced every-time when a social group is oppressed by another one. Females of the ruling class are -were?- usually used to determine beauty standards, and men -and women- from the oppressed side, disrespect them selves because they don’t look as the others.

Was kind of funny to think that what could also be happening is that females from the oppressive group are the ones who fell in love with males of the oppressed group, because usually any man from a dominant class carries a lot of bullshittery thinking of himself as a superior close-to-god being, leaving females aside.