I had a one-thousand word review that discussed this book in detail, with lots of jokes, and then DriveThruRPG ate it.
A condensed version:
This sourcebook educates the reader on what a city of antiquity would have been like to live in, oozes Gloranthan flavor, uses pop-culture references and the broad tropes of social realist fiction to make it easier to enter the interiority of the culture in question (the Lunar Empire), delivers strongly on expanding the scope of Glorantha in concrete ways to match Greg Stafford's offhand comments, has some very good jokes, takes a unique tack in analyzing the characters through the lens of labor and work, and has honest-to-god themes going on in it, which actively comment on the source material.
It also communicates important truths about the setting, but to quote Leonard Cohen, "You don't really care about that, do you?"
Nearly universally useful for Gloranthan gaming, useful outside of Glorantha as well.
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