With Y : The Last valet wrapping up and turning into a moving picture , the science fiction platitude of the female person - dominated planet is reddish - blistering once again . The cosmos is good for our crimson - blooded spaceman to jeopardize to world where there are no work force , or where man are subjugated and the women wearfunny headgear . But what about the subset of gynarchic culture where everyone ’s a gay woman ? It bend out scientific discipline fabrication is full of those , too , and it ’s sentence they catch the grasp they merit .
Many , many thanks to Liz Henry withthe Feminist SF blogfor aid me put together this exhaustive list of lesbian - dominated refinement in science fabrication . Smug Sappho ! There are way more than I ’d expected .
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith . A unearthly virus on the major planet Jeep kills all the men , and most of the woman , and the women who survive are changed , gaining access to a form of Jungian collective unconscious mind . Deprived of access to men ’s cute corporeal fluids , the women protrude mate using a uncanny rite called “ mystifying spell . ” One reviewerwas annoyedthat all these cleaning woman , who presumably are n’t naturally lesbians , seem way too easy turning to lesbianism and do n’t seem to miss the work force at all . Ammonite gain the Tiptree Award for science fabrication that considers gender composition , prompting also - ran David Brin tocomplainthat he ’d been robbed .
Houston , Houston , Do You Read ? by James Tiptree Jr. A trio of astronauts blast off into a mission around the sun , but a solar flare pass rap them onward in time a few hundred years , to an era when a pestilence ( again ! ) has pass over out all the men and most of the woman . The live woman reproduce via cloning , and a few of their girl - babies are drug with androgen early on to make them farm up handsome and stronger . The three male astronauts are thrilled at the hazard to be the only men on Earth — either to become patriarchs , or just to have stack of sex — but then it turn out the women rulers have no intention of letting the men live . They ’re happy without human around , and do n’t require to upset their peachy , unchanging society with annoying menfolk .
Walk To The End of the World and Motherlines , by Suzy McKee Charnas . A horrendous brave male - dominated society that lock up woman in breeding farms . But then a free lesbian society , the Motherlines , springtime up and shelters the refugees from the ebil male society . And the nomadic , sawhorse - devolve on sapphic finish has an … interesting elbow room of reproducing . In a nutshell , they , ummm … gather up semen from their manful horses and then practice it as a accelerator to reproduce themselves . Or as Liz put it , “ horsefucking lesbians . ”
The Marq’ssan Cycle by L. Timmel Duchamp . In the dystopian time to come of 2076 , everything ’s break away by gay woman , and somehowthe world is still totally fucked . The novel oppose the sapphic Anarchist Collectives in the Women ’s Free Zone against the malign Executive Class , which runs the remainder of the world and is equally lesbiotic . Ideomancerexplains :
Executive men are ‘ fixed ’ , which means they are capable of replication but completely uninterested in the act except as a mean to an end . They derive no strong-arm pleasure from the act , which frees them to follow their vocations and hobbies without internal conflict . Executive women are almost solely homosexual , except when it is necessary to bear their executive men children - and it is a distasteful deed : in Renegade , one executive womanhood speaks of the obvious perversion of heterosexuality - but there is a very potent prohibition against executive - with - executive director sex : executive woman are only to have sex with servicing - tech cleaning woman , who are sometimes available during party much as Champagne-Ardenne and caviar are provide . Executive women are also teach ego - defense against un - make men .
Champagne , caviare and service tech women . ripe times !
The Door into Ocean byJoan Slonczewski . The satellite Valedon is conservative and has a stiff class system , but its moon , Shora , is covered by a shallow ocean full of water - breathe lesbian who populate in harmony ( but do n’t have any goats . ) The Sharers of Shora are pacifists and tiptop - advanced biologists , who communicate across farsighted distance by lecture to the louse , and reproduce by parthenogenesis . They experience in peace … until an ground forces from Valedon come to “ modernise ” Shora . Here ’s sample distribution dialogue after the army has taken a few Sharers prisoner :
“ We seek our sister Sharers , ” Merwen order .
“ Who might they be ? ”
“ Lerion Nonthinker , Ronesha the Coldhearted , and Oo the Jealous , who were last see with Valans on Nri - el good deal . ”
My new nickname is totally going to be Oo the Jealous . The sister who have been taken prisoner are n’t communicating , because they ’re in “ whitetrance . ” I think I ’ve been to that golf-club before .
The Wanderground by Sally Gearhart . A linked collection of stories about a future lesbian Zion , where women can communicate telepathically , not just with each other but also with plant and animate being . They can talk to the flowers ! And everyone lives in harmoniousness with nature . The adult female heighten nipper collectively and conk when they decide to . Gearhart coined some fancy terms for the lesbians ’ non - verbal communicating , include “ learntogether ” and “ listenspread . ” In the Quran ’s terminal news report , an honest-to-goodness cleaning lady and her stooge prepare to give on together .
Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson . This is more like the traditional “ spaceman visits a major planet of all women ” story , except that for once the women - only planet is explicitly lesbified . As Liz puts it , “ The lesbian society is like OMG SPACEMENZ please fuck us . ” Similarly , World Without Men by Charles Maine from 1958 features a lesbian - predominate dystopia , which is saved by a man . Here ’s how the Feminist SF web pagedescribesit :
In World Without Men , all the serviceman are dead and the fair sex abuse gay woman . The story explains that this was triggered by women’s lib and sexual dismissal . One man is create from wintry sperm and save the high society .
Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison . Everyone in the ruling form is gay , except for a few “ aberrant ” professional socio-economic class hets . clone hasreplacedsexual procreation as a means of carrying on the species , but a few women rebel and bear their own children . Heterosexuality isseenas “ rather an unpleasant word , ” because heterosexuality pass to violence and aggression . And sport . By the end of the book , however , there ’s the hypnotism that eventually companionship may arrest conditioning everyone into mandatory homoeroticism .
Shore Of Women by Pamela Sargent . In a post - nucleardystopia , the sexes have been segregate : Lesbians populate in the cities , while savage men lurk out in the wastelands . Every now and then , world come to “ shrine ” in the wilderness and “ consort with the lady , ” mean they have virtual - reality sexuality with a fake goddess . During these cyber hook - ups , the savage men are milk of cum , which is used for artificial insemination by the city women . A fair sex who murders another woman is deport from the metropolis , to a horrible fate in the wilderness of workforce . But there ’s a scandalous twist : the men are so check to worship women that when they run into one in person , they ’re enthrall or else of red . So you see , cybersex can shift the world after all .
need more worlds ruled by lesbians ? ( And who doesn’t?)Here ’s an thoroughgoing listof gay distaff humanity in lesbian scientific discipline fiction .
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