Ugh, re carpet. (Whoever lived where I do now used plastic sheeting. It did not stop the weeds, and is really fucking annoying.)

Re Head On: did he introduce any characters who have locked-in syndrome but are not Hadens? jeshyr and I were talking about that recently as one major flaw of the first book.

Thanks for the write-up of record of a spaceborn few. I'm definitely going to give her enough of a second chance to read at least a closed and common orbit, and I'm glad you got something out of the third book too.

(Speaking of light reading, if you liked qian's Sorcerer to the Crown and didn't know, the second one is out. I mention this because I know I'm not the only person who hadn't heard and went WAIT WHAT and ran to find it. If you haven't read the first, here's your reminder that it's a thing that exists and is fun reading.)