This book is a good old science fiction story as we like. It is not centered on technology, as is fashionable at the moment in science fiction "hard science" but about men, how they live and what challenges they report in a future universe imaginative and dangerous. In this sense, it is much more affordable by all type of public. I found that the book lacked a little depth (I like the SF for substantive problems it first usually), but it remains an entertaining story that is easy to read, and that is hard to let go until you read the end.