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So let me just agree with the 1st comment.

Then I read the book. In a longgg night.

Loved it. And the scenario that leads to the line “I’m with the faggot”. Exceptional. Rich, complex characters with individual motivations.

I ended up thinking it’s probably the best you’ve written, so far. Keep it up, please!

tchrist’s analysis is far beyond where I’ve gone. I’ve assumed this is another planet to which humans, human derived and others have come (assuming that at least some of the mechanisms are involving probabilistic technologies that allow for world-walking, and tunneling to the flat gravity spot at the centre of the world, as in The Algebraist, etc). I’ve chosen to believe that the book isn’t fantasy at all. It’s hard SF – but with Clark’s “sufficiently advanced technology”.

Anyone disturbed by the sex scenes in TSR is probably going to have real problems reading, ohh, The Naked Lunch, or Banks’ Song Of Stone or Complicity. IIRC, for all of Takeshi’s fearsome capacity for violence, I don’t recall any non-consensual sex. Maybe I need to re-re-re-read.

Do I have a richer internal life after reading any of these? Yes. Nothing finer than seeing the world from a different perspective!

So… Any chance of you writing a book in which we can be given a sympathetic portrait of Sarah Palin’s view of the world? As a near antithesis of everything you’ve written, that’d have to stretch your talents

And for TSR, I was totally put off by the very graphic scenes, could not finish the book cause I really just did not like what I was reading, felt a little sick with it.

So, I’ll be happy to read more of Richards stories back into the “normal” SF worlds of his ! lol.

And I’ll beware of the fantasy ones.

fuck off.