Eden Towers

Eden Towers addresses a couple of themes that I feel aren't looked at closely enough in today's fiction. One theme is income disparity and how great wealth does not make one a more responsible person. It seems the key to control any society is to create a scapegoat or boogeyman. In our recent history the poor are the new pariah. Touted as being lazy or unmotivated, or drug abusers by an uneducated lower middle class. So, what happens when the middle class disappears? What happens when fewer and fewer people are required to maintain society? They become expendable, unnecessary, a problem.

Another observation that I would like to share is the number of dystopian models that are so pervasive. I propose that hope springs eternal, and instead of the mad machine (PBM) being the problem, why not be the solution?

To break it down, this is a good versus evil story, and PBM is the one on the road to redemption with its decision to truly adhere to its prime directive.