All-woman worlds encounter men

2007-03-06T19:31:00Z

Artemisraven:

When the men come back ...

A world of all-women encounters, or is encountered by, men, for good or ill.

* Forrest, Katherine. Daughters of a Coral Dawn. A race of human women leave earth to set up their own world. Eventually a ship from earth, with males & females, encounters this world.
* Slonczewski, Joan. A Door into Ocean. "The 'Sharers' [all female at the outset] use advanced skills of 'lifeshaping,' a kind of genetic engineering, to manage the ecology of their ocean-covered planet. They must use all their skills, as well as the discipline of nonviolence, to repel invading traders and soldiers [mostly violent military men], without destroying their own way of life."
* Maine, Charles Eric. Alph (also published as: World Without Men (anti-feminist; an all female world finds a surviving man)
* Mushroom, Merril. Daughters of Khaton. Actually, it's not exactly clear that women are reproducing parthenogenetically, or if a plant is just making babies for them. The plant definitely seems to be doing it, but somehow by taking the genetics of the women ...
* Reed, Kit. Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (An island of women whose men have gone off to war must decide what to do if / when the men come back.)
* Russ, Joanna. "When It Changed" (initially published: 1972, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison) (This was the first story published about Whileaway. In this story, Whileaway is "found" by men from Earth, who think it a tragedy that men have disappeared from the world 30-odd generations ago, and promise to rectify the situation. This story was a "dangerous vision": women have created a world and lived just fine without men; this was not a feminist utopia, but the women have done just fine and apparently not missed men at all. What kind of world do you have when you have only one sex? A world of people.
* Tiptree, James, Jr. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1976) - a spaceship of men encounters a future earth populated only by women.

* David Brin, ''Glory Season'' - Not quite an all-woman world, but a predominantly woman world settled by feminist social experimenters, now must prepare to meet the rest of humanity.

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