At 09:44 PM 9/26/97 -0400, Rebecca DeMarco wrote:
> There is a pretty interesting story by Tiptree in which men throughout
>the US kill off women because aliens are somehow drugging them. I can't
>think of the name of the story off-hand. The aliens want to the kill off the
>human population. It is not a utopia (no where near it) but it does deal
>with the relationship between reproduction and population.
That would be "The Screwfly Solution", written under the name of Raccoona
Sheldon. A thoroughly chilling vision of gender war (though it didn't make
scientific sense unless you believe that humans give off and can detect
pheromones).
-- Janice
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"...the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected;
the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and
servilities of the other." Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
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