Obviously loads of this doesn't hold up, so if you think the success of science fiction is measured in how well it predicts the future, you won't like this. Howerver there's loads to enjoy in this gnarly sci-fi novel about a young political operative in a moribund, environmentally wrecked future US sent in to sort out a massive research dome filled with extinct animals and scientists, earning himself the enmity of the local Governor, but allying himself with a driven genius neuro-scientist researcher, and together they launch a kind of revolution that may or may not save science and America.