In Review: Dystopia Revisited

2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Siedel, New York: Prometheus Books, 2009, 338 pages.

I’ll state my bias now: I’m not normally a science-fiction reader and the first few chapters of Peter Siedel’s 2045 irritated me. But the book’s main character eventually captured me, in spite (or perhaps because) of the simple way the author presented his protagonist...