No person starves, no person needs to fear being homeless, gender is a matter of choice and even death itself has been vanquished. The three domed cities – Four-BAA, Four-BEE, and Four-BOO - of an unnamed desert world 1 shelter a quietly utopian society where all material needs are met. I am going to tried hard to replicate that experience here. My copy is the first printing of the mass market paperback and I read it in a way a reader coming to it could not today, on its own and without reference to the sequel. I only just discovered there was even supposed to be a third one and I have no idea what it would have been about. 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.1976’s Don’t Bite the Sun is apparently the first volume in a trilogy but while the second book, Drinking Sapphire Wine, saw print in 1977, the third volume was never published. 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. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. 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.
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