SOLVED. Adult SciFi from perhaps the '80s with reddish cover/ rather violent/ may have been chinese/ had a technology described as "spinning" to create articles...like spinning a chair or a house. [s]

[Monique]

I started reading this book ~1992 but found it too violent at the time (I was in my 20s). There was some sort of oriental component but can't remember if it was Chinese or Japanese. A power struggle involving the rape of a woman in like the first chapter. The cover was red. I've always remembered the technology referred to in it likening it to 3D printers of today. They may have called it spinning where they could create necessary artifacts like chairs or pencils by "spinning" them. Please help!

[Ky]

Could it be the first book of the Chung Kuo series: The Middle Kingdom?


Don't remember the "spinning" technology but it's been a long time since I read this book, and I do remember it being quite violent.

I just remembered another book from around that time, Japanese-based rather than Chinese:
Yamato: A Rage in Heaven
Also a red cover, but I remember fewer details, so can't say if it's your book or not, aside from the Oriental aspect.

[Monique]

Chung Kuo that's it! Thanks Ky!