From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-11-30, Paul S Person  wrote:   
      
   >>I would advise skipping this book.  The subjects are horrible and not   
   >>for the faint at heart or the squeamish.  All of the States in the USA   
   >>except Hawaii have worm infestations with worm huts all over the place.   
   >>Various cults of worm worshipers have sprung up of people actually   
   >>living with the worms and feeding their ... to the worms.  There is also   
   >>aberrant sex in the book.   
   >   
   > Sounds like Gerrold all right. Book 4 didn't, by any chance, come out   
   > after he decided to emulate the later Heinlein, did it?   
      
   I've mostly forgotten the details, but I think the books started   
   to veer off a simple "heroic humans fight evil bugs" template and   
   the protagonist went through a major self-finding phase.   
      
   The sex can't have been all that interesting or I would remember   
   it. ;-)  Some body swapping with the telepathy thing, ending up in   
   a body of the opposite sex, IIRC?   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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