Yudkowsky’s first attempt at the Light Novel form, from which he says he learnt many lessons for Red Tidday Up. UK, US.

“Content warning: sexual abuse, economics.”



A didactic economics parable in novella form, on the value of monetary policy rather than a rigid gold standard - “So you see, Prince, that you’re not being told to steal from your country of Santal. Even if, to save it, you must transgress the righteous rules against usury and adulterated coinage.”

The S&M slave girl is the author mouthpiece, and the viewpoint character is handed an idiot ball to make the mouthpiece look smart.



Gratuitous S&M for flavouring, and to provide Yudkowsky’s favoured Philosophy Tough Guy ethics tests. A porned-up version of the Sequences. At least the plot is coherent and not stupid. Not worth 99p and I won’t be reading it a second time, but at least the author admits its deficiencies.

the joys of doing your research, eh. An hour reading this thing and I get 0 useful words out of it. Oh well. 2 stars on Amazon, ’cos it’s not quite 1-star bad.

