Two of the travel to a nearby planet in the hope of gaining a better understanding of the male invaders. They must develop a system of peaceful coexistence.
Over millennia of isolation, they have developed a complex philosophical and ethical system, idealistic, communal, and pacifist.īut now, as interstellar civilization rises again, the Sharers are faced with a technological and cultural invasion of man from space. The Sharers are immensely sophisticated in the life sciences, but have eschewed all unnatural technology.
The huge and complex ecosystem of Shora is inhabited by the Sharers, an all female race who reproduce by parthenogensis, without males. Thousands of years in the future in a distant part of the galaxy, lies the planet Shora, entirely covered by a world-spanning ocean. She continues the tradition with A Door into Ocean. Every one of these books does show us a glimmer of what a feminist, gender-fluid, or matriarchal utopia could look like, though, and that's pretty darn rare.Joan Slonczewski's first novel, Still Forms on Foxfield, made the Locus list of distinguished first novels and was a nominee for best novel of the year. And fiction usually needs conflict to get a plot going. The trouble with imagining a perfect society is that, by definition, a true utopia is not going to be rife with conflict. Now, to be clear, these are not all "utopia novels" from start to finish. we can also sometimes imagine nice things happening in the future? Maybe? Here are a few novels that show us feminist utopias, for when you need a serious dystopia antidote. Yes, it's important to protect our reproductive rights and to understand the horrific consequences of government-regulated misogyny. Every once in a while, though, we might want a break from all that gloom and doom. It would be weird if dystopias weren't in vogue.
Our current political landscape is feeling just a tad dystopian at the moment. Dystopias express our cultural anxieties. From The Handmaid's Tale to The Hunger Games, dystopian novels penned by women have been at the forefront of our imaginations for years now.
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