THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

<p>Here we have a book about being in love with a creep - same-sex attraction, it turns out, is not proof against such things - and about attempting to colonize a planet inimical to human life and the problems that arise therefrom.  This is another bleak one, with the escape hatch at the end difficult to describe in real human terms, but it has its charms.</p>