Ben Bova - good read

I just finished reading my first Ben Bova book - Wow! I read City of Darkness - here is the excerpt so that you will get excited and want to read it too.

"Ben Bova, a master of futuristic novels, presents a dystopian Manhattan, where a dome covers the city's decay and decadence and is only "open" two months a year to the outside world of programmed, ordered society".

A teenage boy has just scored in the top 3pct nationwide in his exams which will determine his future career and schooling that the government will allow him to pursue (sounds a bit like communist China, but also has its relevance here)...he wants to study science but his father tells him Business is where the money is - so he runs away to NYC and finds himself trapped the day after labor day when the dome of Manhattan is again sealed...blah, blah, blah - and then at the end. Ron has befriended both white and black gang members. He is told that when the goverment put up the dome, the white people were allowed to leave (some decided not to) but the people of color were forced to stay. It was chilling - ethnic cleansing in a novel, but sickeningly- it has happened in this real world of ours as well.