I liked this by the end a lot more than I thought I would after chapter one. Initially I found it a bit clunky - aging ex sport star turned police chief, having affair with subordinate, doesn’t like e-readers…lives on an arc in space at the end of a two hundred year mission to bring the last of humanity to a new home.

I quickly forgot my raised eyebrows a The story found its feet and found lots to enjoy as mysterious vanishing turns into murder and then a threat to all of what remains of humanity.

The world building is fun, the secondary characters enjoyable, and the main character grows a lot.