Ooh thanks for this. I've read THQ at least once before, but am really enjoying reading it again. I really liked this bit, emphasis mine as it relates to our current spectating of a dying ecosystem:

"Unhappily, Zee Prime began collecting interstellar hydrogen out of which to build a small star of his own. If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built."

He actually even wrote about the current debate. In his multiverse robots were actually banned from earth by bigots at some point.

I miss him I only started to read his book after his death. RIP Good doctor