As expected, this thing is a lot less confusing the second time around, and having it in print also helps when checking for the Dramatis Personae aka “who was that again?”. It still is a wild ride around very interesting world-building, and apparently I had hallucinated a whole plot point in Canaan House. Books-in-memory are always a gamble. I once again highly recommend this whole series.

(I also have no idea why Charlie says “in space” in his cover blurb, when maybe half a percent of everything is actually in space, but hey.)