I just finished reading this on the train home today and I thought it was fantastic.
Got the feeling you sometimes get at the end of a book of being disappointed it's over because you want it to just keep going on and on.
Hal is again his blundering, insensitive self and the addition of the love interest for him to fail hopelessly with is great.
Clunk and the Navcom manage to save the day in spite of Hal's best efforts. The baddies get what's coming to them!
I love all the references to software drivers, licensing, help files and the whole crazy technical world we now think of as normal.
I'll be downloading the next one ASAP; and the next, and the next.
Did I say I liked it?