Trivia / The Android's Dream

• Shrug of God: The gender of Sam, and consequently whether Sam's relationship with Archie is straight or gay. Scalzi deliberately used a unisex name and avoided using any gendered pronouns to refer to the character, and says he doesn't know himself.
• Throw It In!: Scalzi didn't initially intend the above, but when he realized he'd managed to go several pages without making clear the gender of someone with a unisex name, he decided to keep it up through the whole book.

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