The Rainbow Cadenza: A Novel in Vistata Form by J. Neil Schulman
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Overview: The People Who Care have remade the earth in their image, and it’s an earthly paradise.
War, hunger, racism, nationalism, random crime and violence, and most diseases have been conquered.
Humanity is joined together under a single, popularly-elected world government.
If you even want to find a gun anywhere on earth, you’d probably have to look in a museum.
Technology is tamed to the needs of humankind, rather than despoiling the earth.
Gay men and lesbians are not only just tolerated at the fringes of society, but are among its most powerful and respected members. Gay marriage is an institution as normal as any other marriage.
Women are more politically powerful than at any time in human history. Abortion is freely available to any woman who wants it.
The First Lady is Head of State.
So why isn’t everything perfect for everyone? Who are the new underclass called Touchables, and why are they hunted for sport? What social problems has cloning human beings created, and why are clones treated as inferior? Why do men outnumber women seven-to-one? And why are teenaged women being drafted into government service for three years?
This 1984 Prometheus-award-winning novel is the story of Joan Darris, a brilliant young artist in the medium of laser concerts.
Is it her destiny to play music for men’s eyes, or to make herself a plaything for their desires? Why does her love for her mother threaten to subject her to three years of legalized rape, and why does her family–the very politics on Earth in her time–tell her it’s her duty to comply? How does the murder she witnessed at five years old make legalized rape seem the lesser of evils twelve years later–and how does the lingering horror of that murder threaten not only to rob her of her artistic triumph but threaten the life of a man she loves but who can’t give himself to her without betraying everything he believes in?
Genre: Science Fiction
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