The Debt to Pleasure

Who recommended it

1. 

   Sean Carroll Theoretical physicist

   Explicit recommendation

   On his own list of lesser-known novels worth reading; he calls it “a wonderfully dark novel”.

   Recommended Novels↗ Blog postpreposterousuniverse.com Preposterous Universe (Sean Carroll's blog) · 26 Jul 2006 · checked 13 Nov 2026

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