Hormone Pirates of Xenobia and Dream Studs of Kama Loka Book

I just re-read this after several years, and it holds up well. Interesting, well-crafted characters; some brilliant description; and an engrossing forward narrative that expands essentially a negligible, quiet plot into a pleasurable read. The characterizations are so well-wrought, some scenes and descriptions have stayed with me for many years (I who forgot that I'd read Peter Cameron's _The Weekend_ until about page 45 when I re-read it a few years later). Crisp, lifelike dialogue. In fact, I think this novel compares well against Cameron's: I can see them both in my mind as fully dimensional. I can imagine them as films.