Point B (a teleportation love story)
Magary, Drew. Point B (a teleportation love story).[1][2] USA: Independently published, 2020.
From the Overview on the Barnes & Noble website (linked above and below):
When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son Jason accomplished what every other startup company had failed to deliver. They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen... ¶ ...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff.[3]
Reviewed by Jonathan P. Lewis under the erroneous title of Portal B (a teleportation love story) (Point B in Lewis's text and the pictured cover), SFRA Review 50.2-3 (Spring-Summer 2020).[4] Lewis finds the novel what we'll call a mixed-genre, One Big Lie story, where the novum (as Darko Suvin would call it) is near-future teleportation, and the story works through the social/cultural implications of the new technology, for what Isaac Asimov discussed as "Social Science Fiction".[5]
Because of breakthroughs in “anti-hydrogen,” the novel tells us, people can use their smartphones to instantly teleport from nearly anywhere on Earth to nearly anywhere else on Earth [...,] but while the tourism business booms for popular destinations, whole industries such as car manufacturing and airline travel have completely tanked. Global climate change is solved because who needs to burn fossil fuels to move about? Whole cities such as Cleveland are abandoned for who needs to live in Cleveland when work opportunities are everywhere and anywhere — temporary housing is easy to come by and travel costs are negated.[6]
The tone of the novel is (apparently) light, so residents of Cleveland can take the example as good-natured kidding.
RDE, finishing, 29Oct21