Lately I've been really enjoying reading books without knowing anything about them going in, but this is one of the few cases where I'm not sure that made the experience better. I genuinely didn't even know what genre this book was, so I was a little disappointed when it became clear there was nothing bigger going on, since that was hinted at. But overall I enjoyed this! It was nice to listen to and I like the message in the end. It had an interesting resolution. Also I enjoyed all the stuff about SF since that's where I live.