Gormglaith

Gormglaith (2006) by Heidi Wyss is a hard science fiction novel set in a radical feminist separatist world of the future. The tale follows its protagonist Gormglaith as she copes with the outcome of her own rashness throughout five life-shifting days and nights.

• I thought this SciFi story of one possible future was very well done and thought provoking! (Lili Pintea-Reed, feministjournal.com)

• This online novel has become a cult hit... much better than the Buffy lesbian stories... (All Night Surfing)

• "Utterly unreadable..." (Eli - manybooks.net)

• "This is exactly the sort of thing I hate in literature. When books get politicized they inevitably become so incredibly over-written as to be utterly and completely unreadable." (Randomguy - manybooks.net)

Badger Hemulen's description of Gormglaith[1]: "The other night on being asked... 'What do you think will be the most amazing thing you'll see in your lifetime?' ...things will pass us up. We won't understand them anymore, or the way people are. ...They'll be like... Have you read Gormglaith?"

"(Long mad explanation of Gormglaith, each detail more improbable and giggly than the next. ...They are always talking about spinning and textile sounding things but it turns out they are hacking the DNA, they're nanobot-hacking land goddess teenagers in wooden clogs and longstockings. And they're just all bopping around and they seem so free, like people younger than us seem, because we can't read them, like my friends... who I just sort of run into around town, doing anything, and they seem like they could be those girls eating sandwiches sort of wholesomely, in stockings, while behind their eyes they're modifying the DNA of praying mantises and juggling ecosystems. You would not quite understand it as a novel but danah boyd would.)"

External links

• Liz Henry's comments on the FeministSF blog
• Gormglaith online at Literateweb.
• Skepchick.org interview with Wyss about Gormglaith
• An in-depth look at Heidi Wyss