[Four-BEE 02] • Le Vin Saphir

Four-BEE was an utopian city. If you didn't mind being taken care of all your

long long life, having a wild time as a "jang" teenagers able to do anything

you wanted from killing yourself innumerable times, changing bodies, changing

sex, and raising perpetual hell, it could be heaven.

But for one inhabitant there was always something askew. He/she had tried

everything and yet the taste always soured. And then he/she succeeded in

committing the one illegal act-and was thrown out of heaven forever.

But forever is not a term any native of that robotic utopia understood. And so

he/she challenged the rules, declared independence, and set out to prove that

a human was still smarter than the cleverest and most protective robot.

You don't need to have read Tanith Lee's DON'T BITE THE SUN, which set the

original scene, to find this new one of the same high merit that distinguished

this author's THE BIRTHGRAVE.