right; still very heteronormative. dunno if that was intentional or unconscious on cherryh's part, but omg. let's update people!!!

i love all her work; she's probably my favorite hard science writer, but reading it 30 years later i totally saw stuff in it i did NOT see when I read it as a teenager.

thanks for the thinky!

and Ollie was SO WONDERFUL OMG. I loved him. AND grant.