Jinian Star-Eye
A promising finale to the Jinian trilogy takes a horrifying turn when its treatment of disability, eugenics, and supposedly soulless children undermines everything that came before. What begins as an imaginative fantasy adventure ends in an ethically disastrous mess.
Taurus Four
A stranded space explorer encounters a primitive society descended from hippies and falls for a teenage girl. I kept reading in hopes that the protagonist's spectacular sexism was deliberate satire. Instead, the novel celebrates his misogyny and delivers one of the most appalling endings I've encountered.