This one reminded me of Andy Weir's novels. Heavy on the engineering stuff, full of nerdy references, lots of humor. And still somehow it fell short. The base idea is rather good: a software engineer has his head frozen after his death, in hope to be revived somewhere in the future. Which happens, more or less. His mind gets uploaded in a self-replicating probe sent to explore space. Not bad. Unfortunately execution is average. Taylor is not as good as Weir when it comes to keeping attention high when talking about tech stuff. And his humor didn't really work for me. Finally, the story does not conclude with this novel, not even a little sense of closure. You don't do that, even if you had an entire saga in your mind since the beginning.