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I am reading a cheesy Fictionwise multiformat impulse buy right now that I am having trouble with. It's fine, divorced couple accidentally gets sent to the future and must band together to blah blah blah, but the world-building here is not very good. They seem to have a lot of 'stuff' in the future, which is normally the fun part about books like this, but they also have a post-apocalyptic situation where pretty much the entirety of the habitable surface of earth has been made uninhabitable, except for mid-town Manhattan. So I am not seeing how they manage to grow food, build an economy, manufacture all the marble bathtubs and luxury sex pods etc. in an area that size. I mean, it's basically utopia where everyone has all worldly goods and the leisure time and Big Brother-esque social engineering to enjoy and appreciate them. But it's all happening in a world that literally consists of a section of Manhattan. I don't get it.
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