For untold centuries humanity had dreamed of realities like these... An ideal agrarian community, run by women and ruled by love and harmony... A city state that mirrored history's most famous utopian vision... A society aglow with the wit and style that only Regency England had briefly achieved.

All were real. All were flourishing. All were waiting to astound and entrap four space voyagers from Earth who had crashed on this unknown planet, and who now broke all laws to learn the terrifying secrets of a forbidden world.