From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/1/2025 10:21 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:20:45 -0600, Lynn McGuire   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Well, /that's/ a culture that's going to die out all on its own.   
      
   The prognosis of humanity on Earth is not good regardless.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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