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I almost hesitate to bring this up and ruin a good thing but in interest of people not getting a nasty surprise later: the author turned out to be a card carrying neo-Nazi.

Tekumel is an amazing setting and I highly recommend it, and the author is dead so you won't be supporting him by reading his Tekumel stuff or learning about the setting in general, but I can understand if some people would find this tainted the setting beyond any enjoyment.

Well, that sucks. Apparently, it was something that only came to light earlier this year (I’ve had the book sitting on my shelf for awhile) and I hadn’t heard about it.

Gross.

He wrote an anti-Semitic novel 30 years ago under a pseudonym. His estate, the Tekumel foundation, confirmed it.

Thank you for letting me know.

The world building is great, but knowing what I know now, I won’t seek out his other works.

In the future, don’t second guess yourself for bringing something like that up. As far as I’m concerned, you did the right thing.

I recently finished Man of Gold by M.A.R. Barker. For those unfamiliar, it is the first novel set in Tekumel, his invented world where The Empire of the Petal Throne game is based. He isn’t particularly strong with prose and his dialogue isn’t the best, but the reason you read this book is for the unbelievable world building, which is worth the proverbial price of admission.