Chromatacia is a dystopian world where people are divided into restricted social castes by their ability to sense color. After the "Something That Happened" people lost the ability to see the full spectrum. The "Colotocracy" that evolved puts people in a strictly regimented hierarchy with Purples at the top and Greys at the bottom, complementary colors are not allowed to mix, and where spoons are of prime importance. The ruling Colour Collective has also instituted successive "Leap Backs" which outlaw more and more technological advances from the time before the "Something...." Eddie Russet is sent to a town on the "outer fringes" where he runs afoul of the local prefects, falls in love with a woman who would just as soon kill him, ends up engaged to a woman he doesn't like, gets sent on a mission that he probably will not survive, discovers horrible things about the collective, and battles man eating plants. Yeah, it's weird, and I kept hoping it would get better. This one falls short of Fforde's "Thursday Next" novels. And I find it strange that this is the second book I've read recently where spoons play an important part.
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