Went ahead and finished the book in spite of my misgivings. It did get better, though there was still too much attempt to be witty and very, very contemporary. That part won't age well. The book will give you a good understanding of how ridiculously hard establishing space settlements would be, and why we probably are not capable of doing that anytime soon.

There's a whole section on the legal aspects of space settlements; there is already some international law covering this. It's here I think the authors are wrong, in that they fatally underestimate the willingness of broligarchs to simply ignore established law, international diplomacy, ethics, and basic decency; and their willingness to sacrifice human lives by the hundreds.