From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Tue Feb 12 16:02:26 2002 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:48:08 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Q Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0107E" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:28:33 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Patricia Mathews Subject: Re: Guttentag & Secord: "Too Many Women" Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" In-Reply-To: <200107090912.FAA09723@barry.mail.mindspring.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --On Monday, July 09, 2001 2:12 AM -0700 John Snead wrote: > > On the SF front, there is also _All the Stars a Stage_ a very > obscure novel by James Blish (which I'd be shocked if anyone else > here had read). In this society, humans had discovered a way to > select the sex of their offspring. The result was a huge (like 8 to 1) > surplus of men, so women were in charge of the society and most > men never got to marry and were simply a vast, highly competative > labor pool (only the ones who distinguished themselves > significantly were allowed to marry). This was not the focus of the > book (the book was primarily about some people finding out their > sun was soon go go nova and escaping) but it was a significant > part of the local culture and was quite well done, given that Blish > was an old-school male SF writer (although one who was far less > offensive and gender-biased than most others). > > Has anyone else here read this book? What did you think? I don't remember it, but L. Neil Shulman did an excellent job on the same theme in RAINBOW CADENZA. Pat -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems.