Patricia Marie Budd's Hadrian's Rage is a fascinating reversal of a country in the 22nd century in parts of Canada. In the country of Hadrian, homosexuality is the norm, heterosexuality is unpopular and until recently it was illegal. Hadrian is named after the gay Roman emperor, whose goal is to control the population and restore the environment. Heterosexuals are accused of being gay and slammed and overpopulated, so scientists have genetically transformed humans to make them homosexual, although some still have direct or bisexual tendencies. Although it is not illegal to tell the truth, anyone who has heterosexual sex is sentenced to death because overpopulation poses a danger to the country and the world.
However, those who have direct bidding do exist. Before the opening of the novel, popular basketball player Todd Middleton was one of them. When he made love with his friend Crystal Albright, he was sent to a labor camp where the camp director tried to eliminate his heterosexual feelings, including rape him. In desperation, Todd begged his best friend, Frank Hunt, to pity him. Frank did this, and as a result, Frank is now serving his sentence in the Hadrian Army. [These events took place on Hadrian's lover, and Hadrian's anger is a sequel, even though it is also a standard novel.]
This is the case when Hadrian's anger is on. Frank Hunt's family has been torn apart - his father - Jeffrey and Dean - have already broken up because Dean was re-educated when he was young - and now does not want to deny his direct tender. Dean has become a member of the Gay Men's League on the University campus. At the same time, a media member of Hadrian is no longer willing to promote homosexuality for straight. Melissa Eagleton, the main pillar of the national news, left her job, when the station owner wanted her to promote his agenda instead of letting her report the truth. When Melissa set up a competitor, Hadrian would start to express new opinions. At the same time, Straight people began to appear in public, holding hands and being attacked. Then, a young college student, Tara May Fowler, was brutally beaten to death after being confronted directly with the other two girls she thought was her friend. In all these chaos, Hadrian can survive, or will it fall apart, allowing those who seek to break through their walls to take over and destroy the Earth directly?
Writer Patricia Budd did an amazing job not only to imagine a world of reverse discrimination, but also to turn the world into a weak metaphor for ourselves. Through this novel, she provides footnotes that cite real-life events in recent years, which are the basis of the novel scene. For example, Tara May Fowler's death was based on the brutal murder of Vladislav Tornovoi, who was raped, murdered and murdered by two of his friends after his birth in Volgograd, Russia on Friday, May 10, 2013. They are gay. This book is dedicated to the memory of Tornovoi.
Patricia Budd certainly knows how to create an interesting fictional world. Readers see how wrong Hadrian's behavior is, even though they have good intentions and feel that it is both dull and shocking to happen in our own world. Budd's rhythm is great, short chapters and news reports keep readers wondering what will happen next. She does a great job of handling multiple plots and characters so that readers don't feel bored. Most importantly, she created real and lovely characters who looked for truth in their hearts and then found courage to act. Readers will fall in love with the fate of Statten, the last of the founding families of Hadrian. She insists that she thinks it is right. Even if people say that this violates the national constitution, they regard her as an elderly person and an old person. Then some people are in conflict, they want revenge, but they find themselves in love with their enemies. Finally, the novel provides a profound and moving expression of how to overcome prejudice and openness to forgiveness can change the world.
I think Bud's previous book, Hadrian's lover, a powerful and imaginative novel, but Bard has now replaced it. The anger of Hadrian made me fear. I don't think anyone reading this book will forget it. I hope it will help change the world, one heart at a time.
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