Read it today, after it had been sitting on my shelf for years, during which I had only browsed it occasionally.
The idea of writing something to fill in some missing piece in history has had many precursors, yet here is an example that I mostly enjoyed, both for the setting and for the use of footnotes.
Read it in parallel with "Symbiotic planet" by Lynn Margulis https://inventaire.io/items/a7cb0797f81a5cd66da26fd1927404f1 , taking turns between reading these two books and browsing two others.