Immigration Assistance

steven.a.melnyk

An interesting world and its consequences

Reviewed it on June 17, 2025

As I have mentioned in previous reviews, Rollie Lawson is one of my favorite authors. His books are always well developed and interested. These same traits apply to this book. Here, we are introduced to a new world - Lupina - were partially (or full) nudity is accepted and sex is not something that is hidden. This book does a great job of introducing this new world, as we follow the experiences of Jonathan Sawbuck, his wife, Korona, and their three children. The world is interesting and, once you accept the premises on which the book is based, you find yourself drawn into it and this family. A good read executed well by an author who has a known track record of well-written stories. Highly recommended.

captslack

The title is inadequate.

Reviewed it on August 9, 2025

"Immigration Assistance: A Nude Planet Story", it says on the cover. If you read it on Storiesonline, it's billed as "Immigration Assistance | A Story in the Nude Planet Universe (2)". From one point of view, this book actually consists of three or four different stories set on the clothing-optional, sexually-open planet Lupina, only partly concerned with Jonathan Sawbuck's work in the Immigration Assistance Office of the city and province of Caradoc. These stories are united by the presence of Jonathan and/or some other member of his family -- his wife Korona, herself an immigrant; their twin sons Paul and Kyle, ready to go off to college; and the twins' younger sister Karina, who'll be missing the ready access to her brothers' dicks. From another point of view, it's not so much a story as a sequence of sequences of events, a slice of life in the literal sense of the word. And, as Grant Morrison pointed out in their final issue of _Animal Man_, "Life doesn't *have* plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained." Maybe someday we'll find out how Jonathan's role in Caradoc politics developed; whether Karina opened that ramen stand; what became of Annalise and her daughter and younger son. Maybe not. But it was nice to get a glimpse of their lives. And I cannot, in good conscience, dispute that the sex is pretty sizzling.