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SYNOPSIS

In the serial quartet, Future Schmaltz, those able to escape mayhem on Earth do. Travel with them to an underground military base in Utah to Manhattan to the wheeled satellite Noah II, the news outpost A.N.S.W.E.R., the Atlex Warren underground resort, a nuclear submarine and moon retirement home.

In the Second Timely Reformation, violin-prodigy Justina signs on to a covert government operation for money and joins the Swan unit in an underground dorm in Utah. Their job is to mother a new breed of baby girls on rotating shifts in a Nurtery, Between the shifts, a trio of Army bio-technicians toughen the new breed to withstand Earth’s coming deadly atmosphere. The job is dehumanizing to the tech soldiers, offset by the task of sensually servicing the young woman, on orders from U.S. President. He defies his own death sentence, kept alive consuming stem cells and subliminal messages to trust his First Lady. Judeo-Christianity is the rage. A free press, feminism, homosexuality, drugs, rap, rock and roll, profanity and global diversity are out. Yet, the First Lady and her turbaned guru swoop down to the Utah base to map astrological charts for the newborns before catching a ride in a space fleet transporting 10,000 billionaires to wheeled-satellite Noah II.

Unfailing logic predicts an Earth calamity will render the planet uninhabitable for 100 years. Millionaire V.I.P.s take cover in the Atlex Warren cave to ride their horses and loaf around a mineral pool in luxury. Submarines sweep the oceans of toxins with barely room for a hammock to swing for its sailors, scientists and the occasional journalist.

Disaster commences, forcing breeders to stay put in Utah as billions die. They and their babies are hustled to the New York Safe Sector. When they discover biotechs toughen the kids with poison, they riot. Breeders are separated from the little kids and work at scanning books at the 42nd Street public library as treasure hunters scavenge mansions.

After a decade in a Park Avenue dorm, nutrient drink replace dorm food and breeders riot again. They zone out on drugs and classic rock with a dorm counselor and her amusing little boy. Violinist Justina thought herself sort-of-wed to one of three biotechs who had sex with the Swans. But she despairs of being Thursday on his hit list and heads for a pig out of toxic black-market food in Grand Central Station. Alarmed, Vera Swan, a 16-year old police commander, ships her errant mother to Noah II for R&R.

At the satellite’s Nurtery Museum, Justina spots the First Lady’s guru. They slip away to a hydroponic garden and a posh mall. He urges her to take up a violin. She takes up life with a space contractor, gets pregnant the old-fashioned way and stays at his place while he’s building Noah III. She finds a buddy in a robo-repair woman who knows Noah II’s every nook and catwalk, helps Justina land a nightclub job and introduces her to a priest, a former submarine scientist. He leads Justina to Vera’s seven-year old clone, Hope.

The Swan unit is retired to housing on the moon but must wear gravi-belts to keep from floating around. They yawn continually, odd for 35-ish-year-old women. They mope in a dreary mall with retired biotechs. Alarmed, officials send the Noah II priest to the moon to boost spirits, leaving the pregnant Justina to her failing nightclub act. Aging bigwigs scowl at her replacement, the counselor’s comic teen son, rescued from Earth. As Justina takes a job as mall Santa, the satellite’s garbage man and his cronies detest this jester as only a KKK men can and plot an illegal space dump.

On the moon, the nightmare of her son in danger haunts the counselor. An A.N.S.W.E.R. editor, combing his moon database for a puff piece to assign, spots her name flickering on his screen. He dispatches a cub reporter and photographer to the moon.

A suspected illegal dump from satellite Noah II is under investigation as the garbage man flees to the Atlex Warren where a plot to abduct the offspring of staff for future space duty takes shape. The would-be kid snatcher and former AWOL biotech arrives on Noah II and chances upon his ex-commander who recalls nothing.

Sent to Earth, Vera’s clone Hope and Vera test flight gear in the corridor between a Pennsylvania space station and Manhattan. Hope leads the kids in a gambit to clear the jaded air and shorten the predicted evacuation of the planet. On Noah II, the former First Lady ‘s Filipino houseboy ponders funding the flight of Noah III with a windfall inheritance. Lining up to board may be from the Atlex Warren, moon and Noah II, plus a seasoned A.N.S.W.E.R journalist assigned to file puff pieces.

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