The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Wow. It's been a long time (years? an actual decade?) since I've read a sci fi book I've liked as much as this one. It's a soap opera of a sci fi book, with a Star Trek cast as diverse as we can get in this universe, with a plot centering on a broken-down ship with a mission to dig wormholes through space. I lingered over the stories of a man in love with the AI system on the ship and the character connected to a mystical guidance system that will kill him if he continues to allow it to reside inside him and the captain's illicit romance with a non-human being and the hard-to-get-along-with algae specialist...all the characters and all the stories, really. It's a delight of a book. I'm happy to hear book two is already written and on the shelves.