Main and point-of-view characters are overwhelmingly men: George, Christian and Stephen Huxley, Harry Keaton, and Edward Wynne-Jones for humans, and the mythagos Sorthalen, the Twigling, the Urscumug, the Fenlander, etc. Indeed, each knows that she is a mythago formed by his predecessors’ longings but still calls her “his.” The plot is driven by the need for the Huxley men – the father George and his two sons in turn – to claim sole possession over one woman despite knowing that others have at least as much “right” to. Mythago Wood can be read as a story of the need to conquer the Female Principle in order to obtain legitimate status as the Male Principle, the alpha male. Here is my contribution (OK, I admit: I actually posted it to the club on June 1, making it a day late!) Like in the class that preceded it, we can still post essays but on a voluntary basis, and we have relaxed the requirements for word count.
The book of the month in my Goodreads post-SF/F-class reading group was Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood.
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