From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Christian Weisgerber   wrote:   
   >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?   
   >   
      
   It would be hard to outdo _The Man Who Folded Himself_.   
      
   That said, there was a very Heinleinesque feel to the last book I thought,   
   though I can recall very little of it now.   
      
   While I would certainly buy a new Chtorr book, I would much rather have   
   a new Steerswoman, an eventuality which seems equally unlikely.   
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