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In a world dedicated to pleasure, one young rebel sets out on a forbidden quest--.
Published for the first time in a single volume, Tanith Lee's duet of novels set in a hedonistic Utopia are as riveting and revolutionary as they were when they first appeared two decades ago.
It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.
Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....
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Scott Newlon
reviewed Biting the Sun on April 26, 2019
Biting the Sun
Really interesting to read just a week or so after Brave New World as they both explore enforced utopias. In both sex is very casual, individuals are not only not very individual but they don't interact with other castes/ age groups, careers are meaningless, procreation is controlled and is not done in the womb, drug use in encouraged to increase happiness, etc. In neither do we learn much about how this society developed, how it really works. Both are, of course, focused on one misfit.
This is a much longer book with more interesting characters and is often entertaining. The cover is kinda sorta... don't worry about it, about what it means or what scene it's illustrating. It's not fantasy, and it's not really a 'girlie' book. Def. provocative SF. Maybe better for younger folks though who can more likely empathize with the Jang and their prolonged adolescence.
If you're interested, you really do want the omnibus. It's not too long or long-feeling, at least once you get past the first, ah, 60 pp or so.
And so, if you're interested, I do recommend the pair. If not, they're skippable.
'"You ought to take this seriously" [I was scolded.]
"How will that help?"'
'Like most loners, you carry the seeds of violent authority. Loners need to be bossy. They quickly learn it's the only method they have of shoving people off their backs.'
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