Wow. I was at first a little disappointed that we left our main narrator but quickly got over it as the universe setting and those in it were familiar and eventually contiguous to the first novel. What a story. The onion of the CU shivers and begins to show us the workings of those near to it.

Traitorous scientist, facsimiles of minds, the craziness of regional universe politics by gunpoint and a resolution that might make you shed a tear.

Fun and fast read. Onwards!