When my book club chose this book I knew nothing about it. The summary confused me. And then, fortunately, I came to Goodreads and learned two things that made my whole experience of this book. First, that this was written during the AIDS crisis. Second, the description of "North By Northwest in Space."

In the end what I got was a pulpy space station romp with a moral about tolerance and learning to be open minded and experience new things. This isn't usually my sub-genre, but it was a lot of fun.