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I continue to believe that publishers will let anyone write a book. While my previous rants have focused on the fact that the computer book publishing market will take anyone who writes a half-way legible book proposal littered with technical jargon the Village Voice has proved that it's not just tech paperbacks that fall within this category.

One title, David L. Buhlman's Final Warning, billed as "an adventure story about a bleak near future that may be more likely than most would care to admit," imagines life after a takeover by the pagan-feminist New World Way. "In order to control population growth, people are put to death at age sixty, abortions are forced, and the sickness of pedophilia is legalized and encouraged. But with boys only, not girls. Girls are protected because they are identified with the goddess Gaia, the religious myth that undergirds the New World Way. The mainline Christian denominations are forced to insinuate the Gaian rituals into all religious ceremonies, and religious leaders who would not cooperate are imprisoned." The novel also features cloned ratmen who probably aren't Christian either.

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