Perhaps this will make clear the relevance of this book: From Aldous Huxley's 1946 foreword to Brave New World:

"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism."

A popular movement toward decentralization is exactly what Alien Landscapes is, a little late perhaps, but we are here to remind you that, whatever dystopian vision of the future you favor, none can actually occur in the presence of an escape route, that is, a frontier.