Only a couple of niggling things about this book showed that it’s 25 years old and dropped it from 5 to 4 stars:
- inherent racism of most of the societies described in the series (majority of people described with Caucasian colouration)
- unthinking sexism of Miles (product that he is of a sexist feudal society)
- the choice the author made to describe agender or pan-gender characters as “it” instead of “they”: the thing which most grates the ear and ages the book