So we have melachroming superclap a dead Los Angeles dozens of technological doodads, including the drug Thrall, which turns women into slaves nanotransmitters, which keep an eye on everyone all the time geostats and ports and vids. And abortion rights advocates, in a frenzy of push-back, have turned themselves into ruthless terrorists called Novembrists.Īgain, are Christians responsible for all this? You can argue, at least, that the prevalent diction has taken a distinctly biblical turn. “The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption,” an “enlightener” chides Hannah, “and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew!” So there. (See Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”) (I couldn’t find out who did it, although I read the book twice.) The world has suffered an even larger trauma, a pandemic called “The Great Scourge,” or “superclap” in the vernacular, which, until it found a cure, rendered all women sterile. Los Angeles has been nuked into radioactive rubble. Has this dystopic America become such a punitive society because of Christian rule or because of hard economic times? At first, it’s hard to tell. They can’t get jobs, can barely expect to survive their sentences, and so on. But there are plenty of blues and yellows wandering around, too. Naturally, all these people are pariahs. Murderers are bright red, which is how Hannah Payne finds herself when she wakes up and starts to serve her long sentence - because of a child she aborted. Green, for instance, denotes an arsonist or robber. But most convicted criminals no longer go to prison. Because of budget constraints, a new system of “melachroming” tints evil-doers according to their crime. Wade has been repealed, and abortion is prosecuted as murder.
You have to absorb a lot of things about the near future of America before you can get fairly started on Hillary Jordan’s second novel, “When She Woke.” The country has been taken over by something called the Trinity Party, made up of fundamentalist Christians - Texans, by and large.
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