“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

Or, I might add, any other argument.

Thanks for the heads up I will definitely look for it.

Edmund Cooper wrote a SF novel titled “Five to Twelve” back in the 70’s that I thought was quite interesting. The title described the ratio of men to women in a future version of our world. The men were hunted, though, if I remember correctly, and the women had same-sex relationships while reproducing through cloning. The protagonist was a male whose genes had mutated and could only father boys, not girls (and I’m really stretching the boundaries of my memories on this one.)

The book I’d like to read that has yet to be written would be an epic fantasy set in a Byzantine world that does not involve magic, orcs, dragons, witches, demons, Tolkien- or Herbert-knockoffs, or any of the usual nonsense. Kushiel’s Dart came close, but no cigar.