I just re-read Caleb Carr's future fantasy, "Killing Time". Worth a read, not so much for the gee-whiz unscientific science fiction, but for the chilling description of a post-economic-crash world where the "developed" countries can't afford even token attempts at environmental protection, towns in Southern California are warring with one another over water, and wars are stoked around the world to help keep the corporate coffers filled.

Remember in 1974 when the urban wasteland in the movie version of "A Clockwork Orange" seemed impossibly grotesque? And now it's everywhere.

Aloha,
Mark