I've now read the first three books of the series. The narrator seems to be a prisoner trapped in a 1,001 Nights situation, relating tale after tale about his swashbuckling adventures across Urth (Earth rebuilt after a long-forgotten disaster? a Snowpiercer-like climate miscalculation? alien manipulation?) (throughout, it's unclear if he's dishonest, dumb, time-addled, or all of the above). When I finished the first book, I said I'd never read a novel where each chapter was so satisfying as a distinct adventure and deserving of its own lurid cover image. And after about 900 pages, he's still going strong. The stories feel like the Calvin and Hobbes strips where Calvin imagines himself the star of pulpy adventures. Available
at Amazon, although I've been reading them in the Libby app.
