Title: The core of the sun
Description: Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state.
Subjects: Women, Hot peppers, Fiction, Fiction, general, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor