odd that in both DIE and The Power Fantasy Gillon has his genre-standard mental manipulation power user turn to camera and say "No, we would never use this to make someone have sex. That would be rape, and Rape Is Bad." For one thing because both are already meant to be questioning the inherently dubious nature of overwriting another's agency. For another because in the power fantasy, the conceit for it being said is a conversation where the other participant has, truly, no reason to believe it. And of course, because of the ways it unquestioningly treats rape as uniquely evil above any other violence or violation. It seems born of two factors to me: preciousness about wanting his protagonists to remain far from some lines and not others, and speaking to a less engaged audience than I to make sure they get it