Status Updates From Around the World in Eighty ...

On board a mail ship from Yokohama to San Francisco. We are told tgat this crossing will take 21 days. Here is the problem with this novel, large sections are stepping aboard a train or a ship at the timetabled hour, followedby stepping off according to the timetable - which is partly the point - the world is becoming smaller coupled with a kind of Fordism avant la lettre - but this undercuts the excitement somewhat