Deborah Pickett started reading Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell
“Hasn’t aged a bit” says the endorsement on the cover by Jack Chalker, 1944–2005. Au contraire, Jack, upon finishing the first chapter, which contains no women at all, this novella from 1959 has aged a fuckton. I will probably need to hateread it in order to finish this supposed comic horror story.