This review is in the public domain. The clerk will read the indictment.
Defendant is charged with world-building.
Stephen Baxter, you stand accused of Science Fiction's second highest crime. Nah, not anymore. For death you have to be convicted of cluelessness about the Internet. As sentence, you are to be trivialized for seven hundred years, or until people stop arguing over whether or not Heinlein was a libertarian, whichever comes first. Loosely, this is the business of concocting a thought experiment to determine what would happen if certain far-ranging assumptions were made.