From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   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.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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