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6/9/2015
Not one of those novels which has aged well
Having just read Mindkiller and found it pretty enjoyable, I proceeded to Time Pressure -- which is considered the second novel in Robinson's Lifehouse Trilogy. although being tangentially-related rather than a direct sequel.
Readers born before 1960 or thereabouts, who participated in American or Canadian hippie culture, might find the dialogue and cultural descriptions pleasantly nostalgic and / or familiar. Younger readers may find its contents a little harder to parse -- or just plain bizarre.
The main character is a Vietnam War Conscientious Objector / Draft Dodger who has emigrated to a rural Canadian hippie community. A strange time-traveler appears. Much drug use, group sex, and hippie slang occurs.
Those who enjoy lots of fairly-explicit sexual content in their SFF may enjoy this book. Those who don't, may find themselves doing much eye-rolling and page-skipping, and may prefer to bypass this story entirely.