The novel is just so long winded that it’s actually good they shorten some of this, however they need a better job of editing it down to something entertaining.
They skip the showdown with the leaders of the pirates because they kill them right after introducing them. But they still need to...
Ethical: Telling people who to have babies with in order to control the population.
Unethical: Saving lives using the knowledge you got from your weird sex experiment in exchange for participation in even weirder sex experiments.
Spoilers ahoy! Seriously do not look here unless you want to get things spoiled to shit.
Thought I'd throw a bone out there since it may be years until anyone gets to read that far
Write what you know.
Sometimes what you know is that you can take a tax deduction on a nice dinner if you google up some research and write about what you ate.