YMMV / Star's Reach

• Misaimed Fandom: Back when the story was still being published as a series of blog posts on The Archdruid Report, some of the story's fans didn't seem to understand its message about technological progress. Greer himself later commented on this phenomemon:
  Back when it was being written and posted online an episode at a time, I could count nearly every month on hearing from people who enthused about how wonderful the story was, and in the next breath tried to push me into inserting some pop-culture cliché about what the future is supposed to look like. Far more often than not, the point of the insertion was to show that “progress” was still on track and would eventually lead to a more “advanced” society—that is, a society like ours. When I explained that the story is about what happens when “progress,” in the sense that word has today, is over forever, and our kind of society is a fading memory of the troubled past, they simply insisted all the louder that the changes they wanted me to make were perfectly consistent with my story.
• Narm: It's occasionally hard to take the characters seriously when they use Language Drift-affected English. A good example is when Trey describes the replacement of sheep by llamas in Meriga. It would normally be an interesting piece of Worldbuilding and show how much things have changed since the collapse... but it becomes unintentionally hilarious when he refers to sheep as "cheap", and then speculates that they were called that because they were cheaper to raise than llamas, or "lloms".