Review: Too much for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2012
I was unable to finish this novella, although I did skim to the end. It seems a mishmash of dystopian themes combined into a road story where almost the entire cast dies. It has a dictator, who might be a clone of his evil father; the US, Canada and Mexico merged into a single repressive nation; sentient butterflies created by nanotechnology  spills; the roundup of 1/3 of the population for extermination; and the government giving lethal "immunizations" to entire villages etc. Other reviewers raved about the story and gave it 5 stars, but I can't join them.