El relato

Earthling Sutty lives alone in Dovza, the capital of planet Aka. The planet lives under the tight control of a capitalist government, the Corporation, which insists on converting all citizens into pure producers-consumers. For this she proceeds to systematically destroy all vestige of any of the traditional ways of life. Although the fictional world of The Story and its peculiar customs have nothing to do with ancient or modern China, both that society and the "future Earth" from which its heroine comes, reflect certain political and religious tendencies and passions of our own Earth. at the turn of the millennium. Totalitarian governments and fundamentalist religions operate with the same goal, replacing the search for truth with an unquestionable answer and punishing those who question. The Future, in fiction, is usually nothing more than a way of looking at the Present.