[nkozyra]

I found the concept pretty goofy when I was reading it but then I had to stop and remind myself that not only do I know shockingly little about the universe, our greatest experts do, too.

Whatever fantastical concept we can imagine likely exists in some iteration out there.

[The_Colonel]

I liked the concept, but the execution was ... lacking. Some aspects like language (hopefully not spoiling too much) seemed to me treated very naively.

[nkozyra]

I do agree on that, I wasn't a huge fan of the storytelling which did a lot of belabored hand-holding and did indeed feel like an amateur who did just enough research to treat the reader like a naive student.

That's a hard trick to pull, though. How do you tell an expert's tale without a) getting too technical for most or b) getting to ELI5 for the few?