“Fleet of Worlds” by Larry Niven and Edward Lerner is probably not a great book by any means. But for someone who devoured Niven's Known Space books at the age of eight, it's total comfort food. Hi, Nessus. Hi, General Products hulls. Hi, Puppeteer civilization fleeing away from the exploding galactic core. Hi, teleport booths.
Hi, working around holes that Niven never saw in his logic back in the early 70s.
I ate it up and picked up the second volume.