>>I am a frequent viewer of the list, but a rare contributor. I have a
>>student doing a project on science fiction who is examining alternate
>>forms of reproduction. We have several examples of all female societies
>>solving reproduction in interesting ways, but can uncover only one all
>>male society in utopian sf where reproduction is a major issue. This is
>>in the book _Ethan of Athos_ by Lois M. Bujold. Other suggestions of
>>books that we might consider would be welcome.
>Well, this isn't about an all male society, but it isn't about an all female
>one either...
>
>Thre's a typically striking short story by James Tiptree Jr. about the
>social attitudes consequent on haploid reproduction in human beings. One of
>Tiptree's distinctions is that she wrote about reproduction as a biological
>function, rather than (conventionally) as a sociosexual one.
>
>Unfortunately I can't remember the title of that story and my Tiptree books
>are not at hand. Does this ring a bell, anybody?
"Your Haploid Heart"?
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read" is another well-known Tiptree with a
female-only society. "The Screwfly Solution", by "Racoona Sheldon" deals
with a way of getting there (not a happy story!).
I recollect, somewhat vaguely, a Cordwainer Smith all-male society in one
of his short stories. An entire world of testosterone poisoning.
There's Sturgeons's _Venus Plus X_. Not one of his best, but in the list
of his truly ground-breaking works ("The Lovebirds"(?), _Some of Your
Blood_, "It Wasn't Syzygy"(?)).
Neil Rest
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