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Gender Outline: Precocious Brian Chalmers first rescues then seduces Ann Landers in South Australia. Ann and Julia Childers, later Jules or Julius, tutor Hazara Afghan girls whose brothers attacked Ann. She urges Julia Childers to become boy Jules.Ann's mother, Carla Landers, is dying from bowel cancer, her dad, Hector, meets Glen during an IT training course, to be man and wife in future, with Hector to change gender.Underage couple Jules and Ann obtain their parents' reluctant approval and convince the South Australian Ethics Commission to allow sex change, as do Glen and Hector.Ann's mother posthumously wins a quiz competition resulting in the sponsoring magazine to facilitate both the journey into, and gender change treatment on, Saipan, Micronesia. A once- notorious Australian gynaecologist, based on Saipan, operates on both Jules and Hector. Hector/ Hec's IT company wins a tender to develop software on chronic youth unemployment in the Marianas, where Glen joins ' her ', along with Aline, a Micronesian-descended girl programme writer, and Jules' mother Eileen. They are contracted to start an industrial estate.Jules, fitted with a penis and having survived blood poisoning. gathers Ann and a Vietnamese girl Angh, a classmate, as his consorts.

Ann and Julia/Jules, later to become Julius, Adelaide-based teenagers, arrange for Jules to become a boy so as to be Ann's dominant lover and eventually her husband; Ann's mum, dying of cancer, agrees to her husband Hector, later Hec, to start a relationship with Glen, someone he meets through work, which will render Hec a woman in order to become Glen's heterosexual spouse or partner. The Medical Ethics Commission of South Australia agrees to both gender alignments; a doctor is found in the person of Brendan McGroom, on Saipan, the Mariana Islands, newly reinstated.Ann's mother wins, posthumously, a quiz competition; the prize will translate into a journey for Ann and her-still-father-to Saipan; the magazine will fund Jules and part of the medical expenses; they are sending a newly-widowed reporter, Elanca Hartwig who is briefly seduced on arrival by Brendan.Glen, in addition to Hec, acquires Jules' mother and a young local-born researcher, Aline, while on Saipan; Jules father teams up with Elanca and is given consultant work, as are Glen, Hec and their team, as job and industry creation specialists.Jules, now Julius, barely survives a postoperative complication caused by his surgically crafted penis, then Ann persuades their mutual teenage lover, a local part Vietnamese girl called Angh, to join their poly-amorous relationship.

Ameena Akhmatova, a Dushanbe-based police profiler whose husband Kirill was accidentally killed and whose four-year old son, Mahmood, struggles to accept Seljuk Kadyrov, a Tajik Military Police Investigator, as his mum's tentative boyfriend. An attempt to abduct the child is foiled by Aunt Farida, Ameena's child minder. Tariq Akhrameev, a warlord, biggame tourist operator and people smuggler, is blown up in the High Pamir to gain access to Haroon bin Musa, a Chinese Tajik dissident sheltered by him. Fateema Akhrameeva, once Seljuk's love interest, is now linked with Edward Spender, an Irish-born mountain guide. Dilgoosha Nooratova, police superintendent, is doubtful of profiling and a believer in ruthless interrogation, in contrast to Rafiq Karimov, her nominal boss and onetime lover. Ahmed Shah Masood, not the late Afghan warlord but a Chinese Tajik, attempts to swap Kamal Abool Khalaaf, a closet strategist, for Haroon bin Musa which leads to a violent attack on Haroon's hideaway at Fateema's sister's.

A Somali girl student, having grown up and living in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia Townsville, witnesses her draughtsman husband being enticed by an Indonesian girl to leave his wife and young child to open an East-African-style restaurant in Aceh, NW Sumatra. Halima, meanwhile, consummates her own love affair with Edward, a middle-aged Indonesian-born educator, and is preselected by her minor party for a suburban parliamentary seat which she eventually wins by two-rather delayed-votes. A woman journalist born in Iceland but active in North Queensland arranges a coalition between Labour and Halima's minor party on condition that Halima, the Somali girl, becomes Prime Minister of Australia. Edward, her lover, ringing her from Bhutan, is told about it and made aware that it is all over between them.