Jian Huang

The Raffle Jian Huang

Year 2027: Almost eleven years after a multiple attack (nuclear, electromagnetic and biological) altered the genetics of the entire population of Los Angeles, California, gave rise to a widespread blackout and a racial war among its inhabitants that led to the total isolation of the entire area, the new administration of the nation has published The Proclamation, an edict by which an annual raffle allows one candidate from the affected territory to obtain the right to be repatriated to the non-isolated territory of The New United States (NUS).

Ramsey Arami was separated from his wife and daughter by the circumstances of the day of the attacks on July 4, 2016. He finally manages for the first time to reach the last stage of the annual raffle, and with it, the possibility of meeting them looks closer than ever. What he does not know, is that the new company-nation, obsessed with security and religious mandates, has programmed for him a new challenge between police robots with human appearance, television cameras and a world that is most probably not what it seems.

The Raffle Novel is a collection of the four parts of "The Raffle". Starting from a rather short story for parts 1 and 2, the parts progressively increase, culminating in Part 4 which constitutes the majority of the collection.