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| * [[Frank Herbert]]. The White Plague (not all women eliminated but many women killed / infertile) | | * [[Frank Herbert]]. The White Plague (not all women eliminated but many women killed / infertile) |
| * Jon Inouye. "Last Man," in A Night Tide (1976) [all women eliminated] | | * Jon Inouye. "Last Man," in A Night Tide (1976) [all women eliminated] |
| * Day Keene (pseud. for [[Gunard Hjerstedt]], 1903-1969), & [[Leonard Pruyn]]. World Without Women (1960) | | * Day Keene (pseud. for [[Gunard Hjerstedt]], 1903-1969), |
| * Rand B. Lee. "Full Fathom Five My Father Lies," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb. 1981; reprinted in Worlds Apart, ed. by Decarnin, Garber & Paleo (1986)
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| * Lucian. "True History" (approx. 175 A.D.; republished in The Works of Lucian of Samosata (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905)) (only men living on the moon)
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| * Amin Maalouf, 1949- . The First Century After Beatrice (1993; 1995)
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| * Virgilio Martini. The World Without Women (1936; Iesolo, Italy: Tritone, 1969; New York: Dial, 1971) [transl. by Emile Capouya]. Originally published as Il Mondo Senza Donne. [almost all women die from a mysterious disease]
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| * [[Neal Stephenson]]. [[The Diamond Age]] (near future world in which Chinese sex-selection has resulted in many girls being given away; an army of these girls has been raised)
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| * [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[Six Moon Dance]] (1998) (half of the female population dies at birth)
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| * [[Poul Anderson]]. [[Virgin Planet]] (1959) (sexist; an all-woman world (reproducing by a poorly-described parthenogenetic cloning) has been awaiting the coming of Man.)
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| * [[Elizabeth Bear]], ''[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]'' (2006) (disproportion seems likely but is not totally clear)
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| * [[David Brin]]'s [[Glory Season]] (world settled by separatists has been designed to have few men)
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| * [[Laurajean Ermayne]] [pseud. for Forrest J. Ackerman]. "[[The Radclyffe Effect]]," in The Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest Ackerman and Friends, Reseda, Calif., Powell Publications, 1969. [the women's reactions when the men disappear]
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| * [[Caroline Forbes]]. "London Fields" in The Needle on Full (1985) [the men have mostly died out, but then some men are discovered]
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| * [[Katherine Forrest]]. ''[[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. Two sequels.
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| * [[Jane Fletcher]]. ''[[The World Celaeno Chose]]'' (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - telepathically-induced parthenogenesis (3rd-party telekinesis). First in a series.
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| * [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]. ''[[Herland]]''. Three male explorers encounter a female-only society that reproduces via parthenogenesis.
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| * [[Leona Gom]]. [[The Y Chromosome]]. The characters go out of their way to describe their reproductive method -- "ovafusion" -- as neither cloning nor parthenogenesis. Doctors are able to use this method to fuse two eggs together in a woman. Pregnancy and childbirth are normal and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.
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| :As it happens, there is a completely functional all-women world — but a few men are hiding out. Since they are not incorporated into the main society in any fashion, this still qualifies as a woman-only world.
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| * [[Nicola Griffith]]. [[Ammonite]]. Women may psychically fertilize one another; pregnancy and childbirth are normal, and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.
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| * [[Sandi Hall]]. ''[[Wingwomen of Hera]]'' (Spinsters / Aunt Lute: 1987) - the women of Hera are a parthenogenetic race ...
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| * [[Lee Killough]], ''[[A Voice Out of Ramah]]'' (1978)
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| * [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. "[[The Matter of Seggri]]". Birth ratio of boys to girls has been skewed by disease, and society has changed as a result.
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| * [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]'' (2007). A primordial all-female species starts producing males.
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| * [[Charles Eric Maine]] (pseud. for David McIlwain, born 1921) [[World Without Men]] (1958) (republished as ''Alph'' (1972) (sexist; a static world of lesbians may be saved by cloning a manly man)
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| * [[A. R. Morlan]]. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1993) (in ''Full Spectrum 4'') (most men have died; women begin outdoing men at warfare)
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| * [[Merril Mushroom]]. ''[[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 ...
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| * [[Anne Rice]], ''[[Queen of the Damned]]''. Akasha wants women everywhere to rise up and kill most of the men because of their violence.
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| * [[Leigh Richards]]. [[Califia's Daughters]]. After a biological disaster, women outnumber men and men are prized above all things.
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| * [[Joanna Russ]]. [[The Female Man]]. The classic women-only world. Actually, there are several worlds portrayed, but one of them -- [[Whileaway]] -- is a women-only world. --. "[[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.
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| :Read The Female Man for more [[Whileaway]]; or read Nicola Griffith's Ammonite for another very human world in which neither the people on the planet nor the reader ever miss males. For more encounters between all-woman societies and men, see: Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read" and Merril Mushroom's Daughters of Khaton.
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| * [[Pamela Sargent]]'s ''[[The Shore of Women]]''.
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| * [[Joan Slonczewski]]. ''[[A Door Into Ocean]]'' - an all-female aquatic race that reproduces by parthenogenesis. Encounters men.
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| * [[Wen Spencer]]. ''[[A Brother's Price]]''.
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| * [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]. "[[Houston, Houston, Do You Read?]]" (1976) - a spaceship of men encounters a future earth populated only by women.
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| * [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]]'s [[In the Mothers' Land]]
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| * [[Susan Weston]]. ''[[Children of the Light]]''. Post-holocaust US. Most men have mysteriously died; society is continued in small enclaves visited by government men who impregnate the women (and very young women). One young man is transported into this grim future and makes a life with the women and children of a small village.
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| * [[Liz Williams]]' [[Banner of Souls]] (2004)
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| * [[John Wyndham]]. "[[Consider Her Ways]]" (1956)
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| * [[Donna J. Young]]. ''[[Retreat: As It Was!]]'' (Naiad, 1979) (A long, long time ago, the human race is all women ... )
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| * [[Zana]]. "Man Plague," [[Sinister Wisdom]] [Berkeley, California], no. 34 (1988)
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| * [[Molleen Zanger]]. ''[[The Year Seven]]'' (1993)
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| * [[Y, the Last Man]]
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| * "[[Devil Girl from Mars]]" (1954) (Mars needs men, and [[Nyah]] comes to Scotland to get them)
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| ==Alternating Both==
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| * Philip Wylie. [[The Disappearance]]
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Works featuring skewed gender ratios]]
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| * [[Woman-only worlds]]
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| * [[All-woman worlds encounter men]]
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| * [[:Category:Works featuring female-only worlds]]
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| [[Category:Social themes]]
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