![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With black humour Faber explored issues of race, gender, vivisection, and what it meant to be a terminal outsider. In the novel, Isserley’s race refer to themselves as human beings, while earthlings are “Vodsels”. The four-legged inhabitants of Isserley’s planet have developed a taste for human meat, which is sold as an expensive delicacy. Under the Skin introduced a new kind of heroine – Isserley – an alien surgically transformed to resemble a human being, who drives around Scotland in an old Toyota, picking up male hitchhikers who are taken back to a plant for processing. Dick and Stanislaw Lem – that ever made me feel like going back for a second helping. I say that as a reader who has dipped into science fiction for decades and identified only a handful of authors – notably Philip K. Michel Faber’s novel, Under the Skin (2000), was that rarest of beasts: a science fiction story with real literary merit. ![]()
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