[Keysh]

Amusingly, I have made three tries to read that book, and kept giving up (getting a little further each time). Partly it was the peculiar sense of aesthetics (e.g., the idea that of course audience would reject color movies) and partly it was the Looney Tunes solar system, which turned out to be something I could accept in a Daffy Duck cartoon but not in a novel.

(But then I'm an astronomer, so I'm primed to get annoyed by random mistakes and carelessness that other people wouldn't notice or care about. I mean, I could kind of momentarily accept the silliness of a habitable solid surface for Uranus, but when you describe the Sun as fainter than Jupiter seen from that location... and then we're told that wheat can't tolerate cold climates the way rice can, and I realize the botany is just as nonsensical as the astronomy...)

I've read most of one of her short-story collections and really liked it, so it's not a generic problem with her writing.