Swastika Night

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A 1937 science fiction novel written by [[Katharine Burdekin]] and set in the 26th century long after an Axis victory.

==Editions and translations==
* ''Noite de Suastica - Coleccao de Bolso'' Editorial Caminho: 1989. 204 pp. (Portugues)
* ''Nacht der braunen Schatten'' (ISBN 3928300318) (Deutsche) Unrast: Munster, 1995. First German edition.
* ''La notte della svastica'' (1993: Editori Riuniti. Traducione di Daniela Della Bona. pp. xii + 220. Prefazione di Carlo Pagetti. Prima edizione italiana.

==External Links==
* [http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/l.j.hurst/swastika.htm Review]
* [http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Catastrophe_in_Science_Fiction Catastrophe in Science Fiction]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Av1B0iUqRPIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Swastika+night&hl=pl&ei=T0ExTsaKJ4yx8QPimsGhDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Swastika Night at Books.google.com] extracts

[[Category:Dystopian works by title]]
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Herland

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Herland
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = [[File:Herland1986.jpg|175px]]
| image_caption = Cover of the 1986 [[The Women's Press]] edition
| author = [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
| cover_artist =
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Utopian novel, Feminist science fiction
| publisher = [[The Forerunner]] (serial) & [[Pantheon Books]] (in book form)
| release_date = April 1979
| media_type = Print (Magazine, Hardcover & Paperback),<br /> E-book and MP3
| pages = xxiv + 146 pp
| isbn = 0-394-73665-6
| preceded_by = [[Moving the Mountain]]
| followed_by = [[With Her in Ourland]]
}}
'''''Herland''''' is a [[utopian]] novel from [[1915 in feminist literature|1915]], written by [[feminist]] writer [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]. The book describes an isolated society, composed entirely of women, who reproduce via [[Parthenogenesis in SF|parthenogenesis]] (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. Herland first appeared as a serial in Perkins Gilman's monthly magazine ''The Forerunner'', a magazine edited and written by Perkins between 1909 and 1916.<ref>John Clute, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman" , in Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 496.</ref> Herland is the middle volume in a utopian trilogy; it was preceded by ''[[Moving the Mountain]]'' (1911), and followed with a sequel, ''[[With Her in Ourland]]'' (1916). Herland was not published in book form until 1979.

==Editions==
<small>
===Print===
* Dec 1915, [[The Forerunner]] (magazine) Vol.6, No.1 (Jan 1915) - Vol.6, No.12 (Dec 1915)
* Apr 1979, New York, NY: [[Pantheon Books]], ISBN 0-394-73665-6. (trade paperback)
* 1979, London, UK: [[The Women's Press]], ISBN 0-7043-3840-8. (paperback)
* Mar 1986, London, UK: The Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-3840-8. (paperback)
* May 1992, London, UK: The Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-3840-8. (trade paperback)
* Jul 1992, United States, [[New American Library|Signet Books]], ISBN 0-451-52562-0. (paperback) collection: Herland and Selected Stories
* 1997, Wickford, RI: North Books, ISBN 0-9394-9517-1.
* Sep 1998, Mineola, NY: [[Dover Publications]], ISBN 0-486-40429-3. (trade paperback)
* Dec 2000, Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 0-5439-0458-X.
* Nov 2001, London, UK: The Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-4700-8. (trade paperback)
* Feb 2007, Gardners Books, ISBN 1-4068-0936-5.
* Mar 2007, Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, ISBN 1-4264-4539-3. (large print)
* Aug 2008, BiblioLife, ISBN 0-5543-2782-1. (hardcover)
* Aug 2008, Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 8-1320-2550-4.(trade paerback)
* 2009, Lexington, KY: Feather Trail Press, ISBN 1-4495-9754-8.
* Jun 2009, NuVision Publications, ISBN 1-5954-7508-7. (hardcover)
* Jan 2011, Wilder Publications, ISBN 1-6172-0207-X.

====Translations====
* 1980, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt, ISBN 3-4991-4607-X. transl. by Sabine Wilhelm as '''''Herland''''' (9 editions till 1994)
* 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark: Albatros, ISBN 8-7879-1334-8. transl. by Merete von Eyben as '''''Kvindeland''''' (2 editions till 1981)
* 1987, Barcelona, Spain: La Sal, ISBN 978-84-85627-49-3. transl. by Helena Valentí as '''''El país de Ellas'''''
* 1998, Taibei Shi, Taiwan: Nü shu wen hua shi ye you xian gong si, ISBN 9-5798-4815-7. transl. by Lin Shuqin as '''''Ta xiang'''''
* 2000, Barcelona, Spain: Abraxas, S.L., ISBN 84-95536-08-0. (hardcover) transl. by Jorge A. Sánchez into the Spanish as '''''Dellas, un mundo femenino'''''
* 2002, Hod ha-Sharon, Israel: Asṭrolog, transl. by Hadas Ṿais as '''''Artsan'''''
* 2002, Barcelona, Spain: Laertes, ISBN 84-7584-478-2. (hardcover) transl. by Eulàlia Lledó and Jordi Vidal Tubau into the Catalan as '''''Terra d'elles'''''
* 2007, Istanbul, Turkey: Otonom Yayıncılık, ISBN 9-7560-5613-4. transl. by Seher Özbay as '''''Kadınlar ülkesi'''''
* 2009, Turku, Finland: Savukeidas, ISBN 9-5255-0039-X. transl. by Ville-Juhani Sutinen as '''''Herland'''''

===Audio===
* 1987, Enfield, NSW, Australia: Royal Blind Society. (cassettes) read by Eda Seasongood
* Jun 2008, Canada, LibriVox, audio (MP3)
* 2008, Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (CD-ROM)
* 2010, New York, NY: Babblebooks, ISBN 1-6011-2019-2. (CD-ROM) read by Anais 9000, a computer-generated voice
* 2011, Old Saybrook, CT: Tantor Media Inc., ISBN 1-4526-0174-7, (CD-ROM) read by William Dufris

===E-book===
* Jul 2004, Neeland Media LLC, ISBN 1-4209-3067-2. (kindle)
* Jun 2008, Lisle, IL: Project Gutenberg, #32, ebook)
* Jun 2010, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-394-73665-6 (kindle)
* Apr 2011, Old Saybrook, CT: Tantor Media, ISBN 1-4526-2174-8. (e-Audio) Made available electronically by NetLibrary
</small>

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_herland.txt FeministSF Book Discussion Group] (May 2005)

[[category:1915 publications]]
[[category:Novels]]
[[Category:Works with all-female species]]
[[Category:Works with sex wars]]
[[Category:Works of science fiction]]

==External links==
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32 Herland at Project Gutenberg]

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