It's fun, a decent disaster story, though pretty much fully outdated in pre-Apollo tech and morals. One of the first points of action was to ask the present women to help make lunch. A lot of time is spent on evaluating the progress of humanity and that of the male POV characters. As a result, the word 'man' often is splattered about a dozen times on the pocked sized pages which gets quite tiresome.

Sorry, but nope. Nope, nope, nope...

It is interesting is how in many of these stories with heavy anti corporate, capitalism and control themes the main characters don't seem to be fully on board with the cause and more in it for solely selfish reasons. It's an effective way to present these ideals (that often range into revolutionary and anarchism) without being preachy. The catch is that almost none of the POV characters have been sympathetic.

"His blocks were dissolving like salt in water. I felt him. It was incredible. Beautiful. And Sensual. I wanted him, just as Earth salmon ready to spawn felt driven to swim up stream, against all obstacles, to reach home and reproduce."

Part of me feels like the boy at the start of The Princess Bride: Is this a kissing book? Maybe I should just soldier through and give it a chance. Large parts of me are like: Awgawds what the fuck?

I absolutely love the Minority Report movie. First time reading the actual short story it's based on. Based on is the correct term, beyond the premise and usage of Dick's early Cyberpunk dystopia it is a wildly different story. I liked it even if it was more grimdark and somewhat convoluted. The Precogs being nothing more than abused and objectivised, vegetative teenagers fit with that.

Loving the writing, world building is fantastic, characters are fun. But I'm starting to fear this might be too much romance for me. Especially if the plot might be going the way I think it is now.

Meepka is a treasure in her own right.

Fantastic intro. Bit of a heavy handed sit-down exposition bit now, but damn is that a sick way to build a human dominated galaxy. Entire empires from obducted Neolithic Mesoamericans? Love it.