mooremj@eglin-vax (10/28/85)
From: "MARTIN J. MOORE" <mooremj@eglin-vax> A very good novel dealing with the transition of a two-sex society to a single-sex (female) society is John Boyd's _Sex_and_the_High_Command_. Try it. ------
heffel%shogun.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (10/31/85)
From: heffel%shogun.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracey Heffelfinger Dtn:354-7431 GSO/F5)
Years ago I read "Virgin Planet" by Poul Anderson(I believe). It featured
an all female society that perpetuated itself by Parthenogenisis. I don't
remember much about it because it's been years since I read it.
Anybody else notice that all the examples given so far have been all
female societies??
Of course as soon as I typed that, I thought of an all male example.
In Andre Norton's Witch World series there was a race of men (who name involved
hawks somehow) that raided villages for women. These women were kept until
they had a child. If the child were female, both were allowed to go back
home. If the child were male, She was kept for 4 years to raise the boy.
At the end of 4 years, the mother went home and the son stayed with the
men.
"I do nothing in particular but I do it very well." --W.S. Gilbert
Tracey Heffelfinger
Digital Equipment Corp.
Greenville, S.C.
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ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpawildbill@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (William J. Laubenheimer) (11/01/85)
> Anybody else notice that all the examples given so far have been all >female societies?? > Of course as soon as I typed that, I thought of an all male example. >In Andre Norton's Witch World series there was a race of men (who name involved >hawks somehow) that raided villages for women. These women were kept until >they had a child. If the child were female, both were allowed to go back >home. If the child were male, She was kept for 4 years to raise the boy. >At the end of 4 years, the mother went home and the son stayed with the >men. >Tracey Heffelfinger >Digital Equipment Corp. >Greenville, S.C. Another male example is the society of klopts in Cordwainer Smith's story, "The Crime and The Glory of Commander Suzdal". The details of reproduction were not terribly explicit, since the main point of introducing the society was to explore the nature of an all-male society. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill