Unlike some other Spinrad works, A World Between is not venturesome in style. Its story is told directly, with cuts to scenes involving important characters or events. The one added feature is the frequent use of commercials from the media campaigns. These are described fully, including technical details like "The camera moves in for a closeup" or "Male voiceover." The commercials are given in present tense.

Those of the Femocrats and the Transcendental Scientists become increasingly hysterical and are often obscene (although the latter element is not new in Pacifican television).

In contrast, most of Carlotta Madigan's TV broadcasts show her simply talking to the electorate in a sober and candid manner. There is one commercial, though, where she and Royce use humor to good effect. They throw pies at each other, let their pet bumbler scold them, and parody the extremists' appeals. By these moves they capture...