Fun City

It's the year 2061 and the world is a better place. The citizens of the Unified People's Commonwealth enjoy a stress free life. Belinda Parry tries to never take her utopian society for granted. Life is good, if not a little boring. Out of the blue, the Municipal Authority decides that Belinda needs to relax and get away from it all. Enter the New Outlook Centre, known better by the slang term of Fun City. Forty-four acres of soul searching recreation. Just what Belinda needs, right? Medicine has progressed so far that all of the ills of the day are soley in the mind. And Fun City is just the prescription. The novel Fun City was initially inspired by three 1981 Marc Almond & Soft Cell B-sides; the songs 'Fun City,' 'Facility Girls' and 'Persuasion.' Similiar themes have been explored in the films 1984, Brazil, Fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run, Metropolis and THX 1138. Fun City has also been compared to The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub for it's dream-like and surreal images and settings. This is the first book in "The City Chronicles" series.