I never tried too hard to find e-books through the library before, and had generally assumed that nothing particularly useful or desirable would actually be available. But this time, when I looked up the book in the catalog, it promptly asked me if I wanted to borrow the e-book. I read it in my browser, with no need to download any software or plugins, but apparently I could have read it on my kindle as well (which I probably should have -- reading on my laptop screen for several hours is a dumb choice).

I don't worry too much about being classified Sleepless rather than Supersleepless. I always figured I would never have made it into battle school either.

I have the impression that lots of SF authors reach a point in the development of their technical ideas where they have to portray something like Miri's thinking or Drew's dreaming (the Mule from Foundation?), and I've mostly learned to roll with it as a reader. Now that you point it out, I'd agree that Miri's thinking was well-finessed, but it didn't pop out at me when I read it.

I tend to poke holes in Libertarianism rather than Objectivism myself (hello mass vaccination and herd immunity, and then we can start on other public goods, and then I will probably get more grouchy and political than is the social norm around here...)

But I guess it bugs me that, on the one hand Kress presented holes in Objectivism, and on the other hand Madam Genius Lawyer Camden couldn't articulate her objections in any reasonable way until the very end of the book, even though she spends the whole story pushing back on Yagaiist principles through her actions. Come on. A highly ethical Harvard Law Review editor who doesn't even consider Rawls? Particularly given that some children born to Sleepless turned out to be Sleepers despite the dominant gene?