The gated community of Consilience isn’t your average American town, butin a near future imagined by bestselling author Margaret Atwood (“TheHandmaid’s Tale,” “The Year of the Flood”) it may be as close as anyonecan hope to get.Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are amongthousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old oneis all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience, half the country isout of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace thestreets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctionalfacilities churn out offenders to make room for more.TheConsilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The veryheart of the community and its economic engine, it’s a bold experimentin voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what theonline brochure hails as “A Meaningful Life,” residents agree to spendone month as inmates, the next as civilians, working as guards orwhatever’s required.Stan and Charmaine have no complaints—untilthe day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house heand Charmaine must share with another couple while they’re back insidePositron. It’s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid