content: Highly recommended. I am from California and as much as I didn't want to think that we will hit a snag in our social progress as being 'out' and that the community would once be ashamed of who they are (prior to the island development, around the year 2010 in the book) I found the book entertaining, thought provoking; coming up with a few questions of my own... like how did the inhabitants of Cali island survive those first years, where and how did they produce food from a savaged land that had been burned; what kind of industry did they develop and from what? The author mentions wood was scarce and a lot of their products were a plastic material... how did they develop the foundries to produce enough to sustain all the people; did they receive help from other peoples government from outside of the states?