Thanks.
It actually came to me as a kind of surprise, that I was so hooked by QC. For my usual taste it's waaaay too soapy.
But that surprise came with hindsight, as the story evolved. What did hook me was the humor. And then there's a certain ... well, call it substance, call it gravity ...
The things Jeph invents are not based on thin air, you can sense some solid world behind it, be it the real world of plausible human (mis)behaviour and the actual place, which provides the stage for the scenes, or the "QC-world", with sentient robots and a broadsword-swinging barista in broad daylight. It is worth reading over again, and then maybe again only to admire the development of Jeph's craftsmanship.
