The great thing about writing a Stainless Steel Rat homage is you get to do things like this (in which our protagonists, having returned from a *very* long trip, have found and are preparing to rob a museum exhibit dedicated to ... themselves): #amwriting
@cstross I'm curious, for pronunciation does Jum rhyme best with yum or room, or something else?
@tclark Rhymes with "yum". (We meet him in an earlier book: the language he's named in has undergone a few vowel shifts over the past couple of millennia—he might originally have been a Jim or even a Ghem, but not any more.)