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I'm going to preemptively review this book with five stars.

Allow me to explain why--

One of the POV characters is a genetically enhanced squid (given human level intelligence) who is sent on an exploratory mission to an asteroid. The squid, without the human trainer's knowledge, is pregnant when she leaves on the trip.

After a while, space squids begin expanding their habitat, developing culture, expanding through the solar system.

You can see why I like this book. SQUID IN SPACE!

It also features the first squid sex scene I've ever read, so it deserves five stars simply for that.

I've enjoyed every other part of the book. There's time travel to the distant, distant future (like, trillions of years in the future). There's super intelligent children being rounded up in concentration camps. Did I mention space squids?

There's a lot of interesting stuff about the possibilities of private companies exploring/exploiting extraterrestrial bodies.

All in all, awesome. I will hopefully finish it tonight, but I don't feel the need to wait in order to accurately review this book. If the ending somehow ruins it, I'll come back and say so. Otherwise, I recommend it highly.

Edit: The ending definitely did not ruin this book. So I continue to highly recommend that. Highly entertaining, and thought provoking.