Thanks for the tips! I need to read more Robinson. I tend to find his characters not terribly interesting and, thus, being a character-driven reader, not get into his books. But his ideas are very interesting, and I'm coming to appreciate him more and more for keeping the utopian sci-fi tradition alive in a smart way.

I'll be teaching his novel Aurora for the second time this fall. It provided good fodder for my Science and Science Fiction class last year.

Miss seeing you! We were very briefly in Cali in July, but with COVID, it seemed too complex to plan to meet. We saw our rebuild, though, which looks like, assuming it doesn't burn down again this fire season! Speaking of which, stay safe.