From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/30/2025 3:14 PM, 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?   
      
   The aberrant sex in the third book is adults having sex with children   
   and feeding the children to the worms as a sacrifice to the their gods,   
   the worms. They teach the children that their sole purpose in life is to   
   feed the worms.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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