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The Towers of Utopia

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Reynolds postulates a future in which the US government builds colossal self-contained cities to house anyone who wishes to live there. Those who desire may decline and accept a government stipend - a sort of federal welfare.

This idea is full of holes but Reynolds does a fast switch to a conventional SF adventure yarn avoiding the heavy lifting involved in justifying his utopia. Typical for Reynolds is his ideas concerning society: contempt for the masses and praise for the technocrats who deserve their elevated status.

This book consists of four related stories. All concern the same characters with cumulative backgrounds and props so I suppose you could call it a novel. The tale is at Reynolds usual standards with no innovations - readable but I felt short-changed - as if something is missing. Perhaps there was a fifth story that was never written or omitted by the publisher.