>>25307223
Steampunk looking ass

>>25307224
what do you mean, i can't see his ass. is it on the back cover?

I know it was a metaphor for 'Nam, but I just have a soft spot for alienation from your loved ones/world you know due to time dilation. Speaker for the Dead, Interstellar, etc

>>25307304
I thought he did a great job using time dilation to exaggerate and emphasize the sense of returning home from war to feel like one doesn’t fit in anymore.

>>25307223
It's pulp. Could barely get through it.

>>25307223
do your duty and be openly disgusted with homosexuality

>>25308355
He gets more accepting of it after a while.

>>25307223
>just as relevant today as when it was written
It was written in response to Vietnam and the pointlessness of it all. It's relevant today only because zero lessons were learned from Vietnam and the US has been fighting nothing but the same pointless lie filled bullshit wars since.

What surprises me is that people review this book and say nothing about the 70s free love bullshit being a central part of the plot. Likewise boomer paranoia about overpopulation have aged really fucking poorly when they've now switched the script to begging for more kids so they can find the day of the pillow without ever having touched a consequence of the way they steered the world.

>>25308808
and is that a good thing or a bad thing?

>>25308838
It is very 70s. But the war stuff and the struggles of soldiers coming back and not fitting in is very real even today.

>>25308842
Neither. It’s just a thing that happened.

>>25309314
>humans no longer have the free will to procreate
>entirely controlled by soulless technocracy
>neither

brilliant!

anyway homosexuality is disgusting