This was alright. Certainly feels like traditional sci-fi. I think if you’ve read a lot in this genre, nothing here will blow you away. The prose are serviceable, the plot is fine. The point is about humanity not being able to really understand truly alien elements and not center themselves. The most interesting concepts are a throughline in the genre and appears in newer things probably better, such as the 4th? (I believe) Expanse book.

It’s fun and does what it says on the tin. Nothing wrong with that.