An up all night page turner! Thanks, Colin.

Most of the time,  the inexpensive offerings on Amazon's specials for Kindle; for sci-fi are more miss than hit. Some are pleasant, but I have stopped a third or half-way through several books of late, thinking "this is just not well written enough to keep reading. I could be snuggling with my kids instead of read this."  And then I go snuggle with the kids. But I found myself reading way into the early morning reading "Starman's Saga: The Long, Strange Journey of Leif The Lucky" by Colin Alexander, and I did not want to put the thing down. If any of Alexander's other works are this gripping, I'm going to be delighted with having found a "new" author. This was a solid 35 Richmans. Great narration, solid characters, and scince fiction that never makes the science feel too much like fiction.  Human nature may doom life on Earth in the long run,  the author may be saying,  but going to the starts may save the species.  Fair enough.   Action on an alien world,  academics who are astonishingly accurate in their nature, flawed people,  great worldbuilding-  this was a great ride that never felt like it was sermonizing, but leaves you with what to think about.