The Genocides | Suggested Reading

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Disch does not often repeat himself.

Of his other novels, The Puppies of Terra (also published as Mankind Under the Leash, 1966), comes closest to The Genocides. In this novel, people are kept as pets by alien beings. As in The Genocides, the later novel shows people as the virtually helpless victims of powerful aliens, but humanity finds a way to fend off the attentions of its alien masters. In The Puppies of Terra, Disch is even more explicitly interested in the aesthetics of fiction than he is in The Genocides, but the novel's plot is less well developed.