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Standard internet Watts warning that the Rift novels have random sexual torture just in case you prefer to avoid that

Right, yes, especially the last Rifter book made me wonder a bit about the sanity of the author.

I read the acknowledgements in some of his books and found him rather dislikeable.

You might want to read his blog [0] to get more insight into his character. I got the impression that the author is a great and likeable human being that became rather cynical due to his disillusionment with humanity.

[0]: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/

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