Scalzi has a really enjoyable writing style and in this case a pretty fascinating plot to go with it. In this one our heroine is Zoe’s best friend Gretchen Trujillo and her adventures snarking her way through trying to save a colony of 50k citizens from a death by… well, stranding. Her Obin sidekick Ran has a lot of good lines too.

At any rate, I enjoyed it a lot and would in fact recommend jt.