It’s like Jurassic park meets avatar without anyone actually traveling through the world. The “real world” story wise is a couple of big facilities in two locations, the outside is shown through a moniter so to speak. The main character can’t go 5 minutes in a conversation without someone coddling him but they live in a small science community so I can kinda see it, still too much saying “he’s special.” Yes, he is and that’s evident in his ability to explain in a “rational” robotic way, that means we don’t need to be told he’s special and unique every conversation, it’s nice like a child’s cartoon. The politics is annoying for the right reasons but the ideology is heavily left sided, this is okay since the community is small comparable to an earth city or even town if I remember correctly, socialism works really well on a small scale(sometimes) with what some would call rational people; in this case people who have been a community for several generations now that have an established government and an apparently normalized living situation, they have festivals for god sake so their culture is developing really well which means people are relatively happy/content. Anyway it’s kinda hard to finish but Travis Baldree helped push me through, this is a very wordy and fast paced book with tons of not quite unnecessary information and lots of political and personal belief tied in from the author.