Brain Implants
Putting brain implants in a patient is not a very subtle way to try to cure insanity. And it's also not a very subtle metaphor. In the world of Woman on the Edge of Time, people in power try to con...
Dawn and Gildina
Dawn is Luciente's daughter. She's barely in the book; she's not really a fleshed-out character. But she's important because Connie sees her as a substitute for, or symbol of, her own daughter Ange...
Per
Future people use funny language. They say "fasure" when they mean "certainly," they say "intersee" when they mean something like "understand" and "see with me."To some extent, the word changes are...
Witchcraft
Sybil, Connie's friend in the asylum, thinks she's a witch and "that she could heal with herbs, that she could cast spells both black and white" (4.18). Connie seems a little skeptical, and readers...