Spider Robinson makes some jarring narrative decisions throughout the book! The most jarring for me has to be the end of chapter fifteen where Isham is in too big of a hurry to explain why he’s on “red alert” and why he’s summoned a Musky cavalry but has enough time to dispense a lecture about using grain alcohol as a fuel instead of gasoline.


(Robinson is often info dumpy in this way, but this was particularly dumpy.)