There are no quotation marks in this book. Luckily the conversations are pretty straight forward he said she said. The time line jumps ahead in leaps and bounds leaving unanswered questions about what happened to people in the past. You get to know the characters just long enough to invest in them and then they are gone and you find out they died 100 years ago. This book isn't really about the details of people. It's the details of human society as they transition to off planet life. What happens to the many cultures of earth. Do we progress or regress as a species. Once you get over the lost quotation marks it is an interesting take on space life.