The setting of Life Line Twenty Fifty is on and near Presque Isle (called “The Dolphin” in the book). A small Erie map inside shows locations of the future community school (West Erie Center for Advanced Learning / WestCAL)  two power plants, and several domes; all located on Peninsula Drive, the setting focal point. This new community school, WestCAL is a vision of an open 24-7-52, community center, free to all, non-age-discriminatory, mall-like, dome structured, marine mammal experimental high school/college cooperative venture, and pride of the state.

A high-tech Geothermal/Hydro-electric power plant redirects Lake Erie water to depths of ten kilometers. Deep elevator shafts make for very exciting scenes, involving the missing scientists.

The Internet and high technology is more than thematic, it’s almost the voice of the book. Communication, robotics, citizen connectivity to crime solving, Internet judicial proceedings all add a technical/future flavor, however, this is not bizarre Sci-fi, this is just around the corner in the real world. Real national and global issues are addressed, as Internet Blogs weigh in to resolve them. The book reads as “very believable” positive and possible; not the typical negative way-out ray gun battle for the streets.  The Erie community is portrayed as very positive and a model for the nation.