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Funny, as always, light somehow, as only Hornby manages, yet still deep and insightful.

I think I've fallen in love with Princess Donut. I just love her as a person. And this goes for almost any other protagonist in here, even Carl, because they are just likable, human, relatable, and this in these circumstances.

It reads like one would play a RPG, and this would be, or could be what happens. It's so much fun, and it's just easy to read and turn the next page.

A history of ressources trading, starting in the 20th century, sort of. And it's important to read, for these freedealing traders have accumulated much money and power. It seems as if billionaires only pop into existence when there is something new, which means information assymmetry as well as almost no regulation (think railway barons, internet tech, and here, natural resource exploitation).

Basically, this is neocolonialism and money rules the world in one.

I liked it alot, even though there are vampires on board (which seems anathema to all scifi readers). Yet this particular type of story is about humans trying to settle in the galaxy, so of course they take all their human fears with them, which means vampires, werewolfes etc. Which, in this case, and this case only, fits.