Review: Great ideas but chopped off plot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2012
Allan Ashinoff has created a superb if dystopian future based on global warming and total control by the people at the top of the world government.  The scenes of Karen Ender's depersonalization are scary - sound like some of the news stories we see now.  Elliot Fintch's voyage of self- and world-discovery is extremely well written, using his trip to Mars as a metaphor as well as a view of his world and government.My only caveat (and it's really a half-star not a full star) is that Mr. Ashinoff seems to have gotten bored about 95% of the way through and simply rolled all his problems into a single deus-ex-machina solution, with the good guys winning, the bad guys being arrested and everyone living happily ever after. In my opinion, the problems presented were too big for the kind of fix he wrote, although it might be a good start.