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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. What happens when there are too many men?By Jade LoverI got this first when it was released. I didn't expect much out of it, but laser music was a different concept, so I bought it. Never would have thought it would be on my all-time-favorites list.The society has sort of worked itself into a corner with sex selection in favor of males. So much of a glut of males that gay relationships are actively encouraged, and it is the very rare heterosexual male who finds a mate - women are that scarce. The government, in its wisdom, has fixed that. All females get to give a year or so as prostitutes - trained by the government, told it is their sort of military obligation. Set up in houses on hour long appointment schedules. Of course, after you finish your obligation, there are many opportunities waiting, but still. . . And avoiding "your duty" is likely to get you executed/The interesting thing is that the author makes all this logical and real. i don't know anything about Mr. Schulman, and haven't read anything by him since, but he did a great job. You've got to get it used, but they are available and worth reading.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Well written.By a.s.His best written book.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Rainbow World, Rainbow Cadenza, What a JoyBy Diane Joy BakerI read *The Rainbow Cadenza* long ago, and instantly fell in love with it. One of the greatest pleasures I've had was to tell the author, in person, how much I loved this book. I love this cover, too. The woman dancing among lights sums up the essence of the book. It explores a very troubling world, but never loses its hopeful tone. This world has Gaylords (literally), Wiccan circles, laseriums, and independent LaGrange stations in space, such as Cair Paravel, Ad Astra and such. It also has a draft---of women---into a prostitution service. Schulman is having a great time, but he's also making a serious libertarian point: ownership of self and ways in which the state impinges on what should be a natural right. Joan Darris, a talented laserist and natural rebel enters this draft service, and finds more about other less-than-lovely aspects of her culture. She goes on the run after a rather nasty incident concerning a politico, and you won't blame her. What happensafter that is explosive. Read this wonderful tale with spot-on language, lovely images, and important concepts! You'll want your own copy.

"After 'Alongide Night' (1979) was praised by Anthony Burgess, Neil Schulman pulled out all the stops. Idolizing Robert A. Heinlein, he seems to emulate the later Heinlein works... In Schulman's 22nd Century, space colonies are independent, human cloning is commonplace, women are drafted for sexual duty, justice is administered by commercialized courts, and criminals ('Touchables') are hunted down, raped, and killed for sport. Sexual orientation divides four classes of people ..."--Los Angeles TimesThe People Who Care have remade the earth in their image, and it's an earthly paradise. 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.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. Technology is tamed to the needs of humankind, rather than despoiling the earth. Women are more politically powerful than at any time in human history. 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? Joan Darris's world is an Earth with Marnies who hunt Touchables, with Gaylords and Ladies, with televised trials that sentence resisters to death in microwave ovens--an Earth that has eliminated war, but which has found new outlets for violence. Like the cautionary tales of Orwell and Huxley, the philosophical novels of , the realistic speculation of Heinlein, the satiric fiction of Anthony Burgess, The Rainbow Cadenza uses the device of futuristic fiction to ask fundamental questions about the personal, political, and religious values to which dedicate our lives, and to shed light on the problems we face today. "Every libertarian should read it. It should win the ."--Robert A. Heinlein, at the 1983 L-5 Society Conference "I found it absolutely fascinating ... A splendid book."--Colin Wilson " It strikes me as strange -- and fills me with hope -- that a man would write a novel, especially a science-fiction novel, with such a feminist message."--Beth Wickenberg, The Arizona Daily Star "'The Rainbow Cadenza' is much more than merely a well and complexly plotted novel. It is also a novel of ideas -- ideas about art and commercialism; politics; economics and technology; and human psychology. It is that rare thing, a genuinely intellectual thriller."--Jeff Riggenbach, San Jose Mercury News "The damn book haunted me for days after I read it. ... J. Neil Schulman has given us not only a fine story but a great deal to think about -- perhaps especially if we think ourselves sexually unprejudiced."--, Reason Magazine "An original and thoughtful book which raises questions that have not appeared in fiction before."--

"A thoughtful, unusually well-written book that raises the most important questions about life and art." -- Michael Medved"Engrossingly suspenseful ... the updated Brave New World ...wickedly funny and chilling at the same time." -- Publishers Weekly"Every libertarian should read it. It should win the Prometheus Award." -- Robert A. Heinlein" art forms are seldom handled wih the intelligence and vividness seen here." -- Booklist"I found it absolutely fascinating ... A splendid book." -- Colin Wilson

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