The book is a great – a compelling look at near future. The performances, though sometimes good, are sometimes bizarre caricatures, with mispronounciations throughout (diaspora as die-uh-SPORE-uh, Kerala as care-AH-lah, Army Corps of Engineers as Army “corpse” of Engineers, etc.). And some narrators add almost cartoonish levels of “emotion,” making it sometimes feel like a bad community theater play reading. This is too bad because of the quality of the source material and some of the performances.