[Novella] The Long Trade (Science-Fiction)
Do you like hard science-fiction with intelligent dialogue and an irreverent sense of humor? This may be the book for you.
In the far future, humanity has colonized the stars, cured disease, and possibly even defeated mortality itself... if you have access to medical care, which has become the primary concern of most people.
Arlo Svengal joins The Service, an anarcho-syndicalist collective that operates an interstellar trade network trying desperately to allocate scarce resources to tens of billions of people scattered across hundreds of light-years while trying to prevent them from devolving into chaos and self-destruction, on the promise of endless life... as long as he can stay alive.
Combining theoretical physics and astronomy with political Realism and moral philosophy, there is something to delight (and perhaps infuriate) everyone.