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Plot Summary of Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living
"Within the supreme Space civilisation a young poet, Okinwe Orbinson, is recruited by a mysterious stranger who, swearing him to secrecy, deposits him on a planet where he is to attempt a solution to an epidemic of suicide among a race of telepathic people. Okinwe Orbinson witnesses three graphic suicides and retreats to a lakeside, where he falls in love. And slowly, piece by piece, he finds the solution to the suicides. "
Sam Smith, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - fighting a disease/illness affecting everyone
Romance Yes
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Human/magical couple? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - artist
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind reading - clairvoyant - Invisibility
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
Terrain - Jungle - Desert - Water - Forests
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of touching personal anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - description of breasts - descript. of private male anat. - descript. of non-breast female anat.
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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