Sci-fi - wealthy in city (bald), poor in forest - boy escapes from city
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1sayerc455
Hi. I read this in school in about 1995 and I think it was old then.
All I can remember about it was that the protagonist was a young adult learning his place in the society.
The society lived in one vast city and everyone used depilatory cream daily to keep themselves hair-free as a visual sign of their status.
I think they had either learning machines or dream machines, (matrix styleee) but the boy has one or two dream sequences, then somehow ends up leaving the city (during an insurrection or riot or something) through the water purification system and ends up in the surrounding forest.
There he discovers other people (with hair. ugh!) who he eventually begins to realise are just like him and he becomes fond of them all.
I think he gets back into the city somehow and the book ends with a question of whether he really left or if it was all just a fabrication made up and implanted into his consciousness by the machine. (i think his father was involved somehow.)
Anyway that's all I can remember. I have no name and no author.
I think the cover had a blue-toned image of the vast forest with the futuristic city overlooking it but can't say for sure that it's accurate.
It was the first sci-fi i really ever read and I want to track it down if possible.
All I can remember about it was that the protagonist was a young adult learning his place in the society.
The society lived in one vast city and everyone used depilatory cream daily to keep themselves hair-free as a visual sign of their status.
I think they had either learning machines or dream machines, (matrix styleee) but the boy has one or two dream sequences, then somehow ends up leaving the city (during an insurrection or riot or something) through the water purification system and ends up in the surrounding forest.
There he discovers other people (with hair. ugh!) who he eventually begins to realise are just like him and he becomes fond of them all.
I think he gets back into the city somehow and the book ends with a question of whether he really left or if it was all just a fabrication made up and implanted into his consciousness by the machine. (i think his father was involved somehow.)
Anyway that's all I can remember. I have no name and no author.
I think the cover had a blue-toned image of the vast forest with the futuristic city overlooking it but can't say for sure that it's accurate.
It was the first sci-fi i really ever read and I want to track it down if possible.
2bookel
Sounds similar to Monica Hughes, Devil on my back but I'm not sure if that's quite what you are after.
3nemoman
The city/country contrast reminds me of ozone by Paul Theroux. s
4sayerc455
Bookel that is exactly it! I just looked up the full synopsis on wiki and It triggered the memory. I had forgotten so many details like the info paks.
Thanks guys, you're all awesome!
Sayerc455
Thanks guys, you're all awesome!
Sayerc455
5bookel
Fantastic! I thought "depilatory cream" sounded familiar and that was the only book I've read I think, that it could have come from. Most the other details seemed pretty close to Devil on my Back. I'm glad that was the one you were after. Did you find the cover? You can click on Information (mouse over the cover images on LibraryThing) to see which ISBN it is attached to.
That one is published by Mammoth.
Do read the other book too, Monica Hughes, The Dream Catcher.
That one is published by Mammoth.
Do read the other book too, Monica Hughes, The Dream Catcher.
