Status Updates From What We Are Seeking

man... I'm finding this soooooo boring :( A bunch of worldbuilding but where's the conflict? Damn... I'm 🤏 this close 🤏 to dropping it.

DUDE. YOU ARE NOT BEING CELIBATE.

I can not wait for our book club discussion on this next year.

This colony seriously needs a restaurant. Half the adults in the place spend hours each day prepping, cooking, and washing dishes.

"He climbed a hill overlooking the town, carrying the components of lunch in three covered dishes. All three were stacked up neatly in a cage of canvas straps that hung from his left hand; this convenience had been a gift from Ru."

" 'I will go home and make some advance preparations for dinner, then' "

Too bad this guy didn't train to be a chef, rather than a medical doctor

Over millennia, 'backpack' technology was eventually lost to humans.

"...rope, cut off two lengths, and put them in. He thought with these he could contrive a kind of harness that would let them carry their burdens of water on their backs. One could not use such a makeshift for long periods—no doubt it would be brutally uncomfortable—but for short times when both hands were needed for climbing, it should suffice."

What is the deal with all the paranoia regarding poisoning?

She hesitated. “I feel like you need tips on surviving the Earth people more than the snake-trees, but I don’t have any.”

Not the Star Trek future 😭

"Then I’d run through all the possibilities of that, and I had a baby to take care of. It was like that all over the colony. Men had the time to learn and adapt to new roles, women didn’t. By the time we got ready to focus on work again, we were stuck with the leftovers. Like teaching part-time and helping run the educational farm."

Not the Star Trek future

"...at first we were all working in our specialties. But then we started having children, and surprise surprise, it turned out that the burden of providing that home life I mentioned fell on us. There was no older generation to help—not even any teenagers to babysit, at first..
Men had the time to learn and adapt to new roles, women didn’t. By the time we got ready to focus on work again..."

[rubs hands together] This ought to be fun!

"... if he was left alone with a married woman she would surely agree to a visit, in defiance of her vows. It was interesting to see that even they knew that monogamy was unnatural. Why else would they expect it to crumble so easily?"