Fun to read, but you can kinda see the gears of the story turning in the background (as in, it's not got much depth to it). To be read similar to The Martian: fun "hard" science fiction, not queer or interested in social implications at all, and the parts on earth are best read as necessary background knowledge to make the rest of it work and nothing else (and unfortunately that framing device worked less well for me here than it did in The Martian)

Other than that, it's fun! Made for very good escapist reading when I needed that, so,