Sloan has written a few books which I have really liked and this is another good one. We’re 13,000 years in the future, the enigmatic entity from Sourdough is back, there are talking beavers and some dragons who live on the moon and need a nap. There are a lot of delightful nods to other scifi worlds which was one of my favorite parts of this. It’s a hero’s journey, sort of, with a lot going on. Many worldbuilding novels are so serious, this one is less so, in a good way. There are a few confusing parts in that some of the characters inhabit this sort of purgatory-type area and sometimes I forgot whether we were in the “real world” or not.