Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

25 with The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe
Growing Up Weightless (1993 Bantam Spectra ISBN 0-553-37306-4; 1994 ISBN 0-553-56814-0) a Bildungsroman set on a human-colonized Moon; joint winner of the 1993 Philip K. "
Ford also contributed to The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (2001 Tor Books ISBN 0-312-86936-3) drawing some of the maps. Games
The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues (1985 West End Games ISBN 0-87431-027-X) an adventure for the Paranoia roleplaying game
Star Trek III with Greg Costikyan and Doug Kaufman (1985 West End Games)
GURPS Time Travel with Steve Jackson (1991 Steve Jackson Games ISBN 1-55634-115-6) a resource book for the GURPS roleplaying game
GURPS Y2K with Steve Jackson et al.

Ford was regarded (and obituaries tributes and memories describe him) as an extraordinarily intelligent erudite and witty man. John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10 1957 – September 25 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer game designer and poet. At Minicon and other science fiction conventions he would perform "Ask Dr.