This is the story of only a little while ago.

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

"Welcome back, golden age pulp novels!"

"A lot more BDSM and space travel than I expected."

"I can't think of a single person to recommend to, on account of the death, gore, and BDSM."

"I'm not a prude by any means but for some reason this book made me so uncomfortable."

"There were a few body mutilation scenes in the story that didn't really make sense, especially given the closed door intimacy situation."

" There was a lot more amputation than I'd have expected."

"The blood and the gore was a bit more than I liked,"

"The gore was crazy."

"Perfect book to read during surgical recovery."

"It had me in the first half but then it went a bit crazy."

"Entirely immune to formulaic storytelling."

"I can't believe I'm saying this but … this was too weird for me."

"This was a weird one!"

"This is the weirdest book."

"That was weird."

"So weird."

"Deeply, deeply weird!"

"What a strange book!"

"I didn't really find it to be that strange, though? I'm not sure why everyone keeps talking up how weird of a book it is."