I like it. Marc Vestabule would be proud! What about putting Billingate in the background? :) For a long time the Gap books were the best sci-fi I'd read, until I chanced upon Peter F Hamilton's Reality Disfunction trilogy (The Reality Disfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God). If you've never read them you really need to - completely astonishing, a mix of ultra hard-core sci-fi and primal horror. I read all 3,000+ pages in 2 weeks, then read them again!