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Ishmael Wang gets another promotion in this book, as you might have guessed from the title, and starts to think about life after his tour of duty on the Lois McKendrick.

If you've listened to the first two boks in the series, you more or less know what to expect here, although things to get taken to the “next level” to an extent; the ship is put in some very real danger this time around, some of the interpersonal issues raised in the earlier books come to a head, and we're left with a strong feeling of the end of a phase in Ish's life, rather than just it being another part of his journey.

I've come to realize that, more than pretty much any one else working in the medium, Lowell is clearly thinking about the ‘podiobook' as a separate medium of storytelling and is writing for that, rather than writing a novel and then recording an audio version of it.