Gordy has a problem. His girlfriend, Poppy Nicole, wants to meet him in REALITY.
It's the year 2043 and primates (people) spend their lives on the VidNet. Everyone and anyone can have a VidNet show, but it's the people who are rated, not the shows, on a scale from Purple to Red.

Poppy just knows that if she and Gordy meet in REALITY, and better yet, have sex in REALITY, on her show, it's sure to boost her rating. But the prospect makes Gordy so nervous he fails to heed the warning signs of a worldwide economic collapse (caused by a bubble in imaginary toothpaste sales). Will Gordy be able to save VidNet Society? More importantly, will he and Poppy have sex in REALITY? The answers lie in Rate Me Red.

Part Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and part Gulliver's Travels, Rate Me Red is a hilarious comic adventure, a sharp social satire and a love story that takes place in the near future in a consumer-mad world not that different from our own.

Richie Chevat is an author, playwright, and activist. His work for stage include the comedy Who Needs Men? and the musical It's Your Own Damn Fault (music by Lon Hoyt). In addiiton to the comic Sci Fi novel, Rate Me Red, and the YA novel Brain Slaves, he's written many works of fiction and non-fiction for young readers, including the young reader adaptations of A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski, Our Choice by Al Gore and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.