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Gabrielle Malik-Perez lives in a fragmented, depopulated twenty-third century America. She is a citizen of the County-Township System, where, with the help of a drug, the L-Serum, people can live for two centuries or more. They are affluent, and most are pleasure seeking and sexually promiscuous. Celebrations, holidays and lavish parties play a huge role in their lives. In many ways their society is ideal. Environmental concern is evident everywhere, and there is absolute equality between men and women. No one has economic worries because attractive, spacious housing, good food, and a personal "household computer" are available to all in exchange for twenty hours of work each week. Ownership is permitted but limited to nonessentials, so those who want to do so can work extra hours to earn money for luxuries not provided by the System. But there is a dark side to this utopia, and Gabrielle is forced to make some difficult choices.