The tech is cool and it seems like a lot of effort went into the design and feasability study of the tech needed to get two ships, from the USA and China, to Saturn on a ridiculously short schedule. I liked how the details of the ships and the journey were presented, the Saturn reveal was alright too. But in a book that's as much about geopolitics as this, I really don't understand why the second half of the book went as it did. The authors show that they're clearly aware of the geopolitical implications in the last 50 pages and they try to present a solution. But it's all so rushed that it really falls flat. For me, the book would've been more realisitc and gripping if that aspect had been more prominent. The first half was about the race there, the second could have been about the characters trying to actively work on a solution to getting the goods back without being nuked by everyone but the USA. Epilogue spoiler Also, does the book qualify as dystopian? The plan to get the tech seems to have worked out. If it wasn't shared globally, we'd probably be in a dystopia because realistic consequences might span from nuclear war to total US hegemony over the entire world. Which would both qualify