A creative view of a possible future world where pro-lifers won out but had to team up with free love. In the future, most of the earth's population live in urbmons--buildings 1,000 stories tall containing around 880,000 people each. The hive dwelling requires a complete lack of privacy, even down to no locks on apartment doors and a universal acceptance that any time an adult asks another for sex, they must comply. A series of vignettes builds up to a reveal of the interconnectedness of the characters' lives and gives a chance to explore whether the development of the urbmons has led to the evolution or a new type of human being or whether they are all just silently suffering a loss of all of their freedoms to allow themselves the one freedom to reproduce at will. A truly thought-provoking book. I highly recommend it.
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