a compelling aspect of science fiction is studying how an author chooses to project the future. it is an area of art where you know great thought has been given. it is important. more so here than with other more conventional works. if you write about the past or the present, you are tasked with redrawing it with some level of believability and realism. when you deal with the future, you not only have to write with a reasonable level of believability, you also have to write about things that don't yet exist and may never exist with believability. and this small detail is why you are guaranteed extra hours of contemplation in science fiction. and when a vision has brewed adequately, it shows, it shows wonderfully.

this is a book of such passion. and one that came to life in meaningful ways. the story is vivid, rich. if there's a downside it is that the year he chose to begin his fantasy has passed us by, and had the disrespect of doing so without resembling his world in any way. this could have been fixed easily enough by adding a hundred or thousand years to the timeline but it is of little importance and does not mar the tale in any significant way. and there are a few elements of his tale i wish were part of our society. i imagine the author wishes they were part of our society as well.