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Post-Apocalyptic Hell Can Be Beautiful

Future dystopias don't have to turn into every-man-for-himself carnage. They can be about communities banding together — and they don't even have to be about men at all, if Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army is any guide. The story of a woman who flees an oppressive society and finds a woman-only communal utopia, Carhullan just got a prestigious Clarke Award nomination. Soon to be released in the U.S. as Daughters Of The North, Sarah Hall's novel is well worth hunting down for its lyrical depictions of the post-apocalypse. Click through for spoilers. More »

10:21 AM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,152 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: The Carhullan Army? I kept waiting for it to be a play on Cthulhu-ian... more »

lesbian empires

Greet Your New Lesbian Overlords!

With Y: The Last Man wrapping up and turning into a movie, the science fiction cliche of the female-dominated planet is red-hot once again. The cosmos is safe for our red-blooded spacemen to venture to worlds where there are no men, or where men are subjugated and the women wear funny headgear. But what about the subset of gynarchic cultures where everyone's a lesbian? It turns out science fiction is full of those, too, and it's time they got the appreciation they deserve. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,371 views, 35 comments

Latest by lquilter: ... and missed the mutant lesbian squid-ish sex in Anne Harris' Accidental Creatures: The lesbians are coming, indeed. more »