Out on Blue Six

'''McDonald, Ian. Out on Blue Six.''' New York: Spectra-Bantam, 1989.

Features a highly regulated city whose populace carries around electronic consciences controlled by the Ministry of Pain. The female protagonist joins a group of literally underground rebels and succeeds in introducing a little anarchy to the tightly controlled society. Cf. H. Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin . . ."; cf. and contrast H. Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog," and G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (all cited this Category). Rev. Nicholas Ruddick, SF&FBR Annual 1990: 371-72, as "a pastiche/homage to the first wave of cyberpunk with everything on the Dante-Dos Passos-Dick axis thrown in" (49).