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Book descriptionIm even more convinced that the English canon has been highly unfair to Tiptree by putting her in a little box called feminist science fiction. It is accurate, alright, but facts sometimes obscure the truth. Being a devoted student of the restrictive, conservative canon, I never took up anything other than classic literature, and somehow, a few amazing recent SF movies compelled me to take it up for my 5-year long research sentence. I picked up SF because I didnt find anything else better than feminist cyberpunk that would sustain my interest for half-a-decade. So I got to someone called James Tiptree, Jr. who was in reality Alice Sheldon and had written some terrific works that were once praised for being masculine and are now read as feminist.This is only the second work by her that Ive read, and Im already in awe. Ive never seen a woman (apart from C.L. Moore) to write so powerfully, employ elements of hard SF and/or cyberpunk and yet, without overt sentimentality, write something explicitly feminist, and still extremely relevant.This novella won both the Hugo and the Nebula in late 70s. It is about three male astronauts who have embarked upon a circumsolar journey in their space shuttle, trying hard to make contact with their base in Houston. Houston does not reply, but they pick up, instead, strange transmissions with women talking to each other in Aussie accents. They soon realize that the voices are radio transmissions from another space shuttle, and the women tell them that the men have been flung off-course not only across space, but time as well, and that theyve been floating in space since two centuries.In a bid to go back to the Earth, or whatever is left of it now, they reluctantly board the womens shuttle. They soon realize, however, that an epidemic on Earth had wiped out almost its entire population, leaving the survivors sterile, and the population is now devoid of men. The women reproduced through cloning, and injected some women with testosterone for works that demanded greater physical strength. They had never seen a man. While Bud, one of the astronauts dreams of fornicating with all the women he has suddenly chanced upon after two hundred years, Dave plans to bring back Christ, and with the Lord, the patriarchal system that shall once again, presumably, recreate Earth as it was and should have been, according to him. Lorimer, the only one who seems to see things the way they are, is too powerless to stop them. Or the women, who, he learns, have no intention of keeping the men alive.While male writers of that era lauded Tiptrees works as fiction that summed up mens experiences, her works are no longer read in that respect. It would require a reader to be blind not to pick up the feminist concerns that drive her stories and novellas. While in The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop she charts the female body through technology, in this novella, she examines the conservative male stereotypical wish of conquest.While Bud dreams of conquering womens bodies into submission by forcing himself upon one of the twin Judys, ecstatic at the baseless thoughts of women clamoring for him in a land where there were no males, Dave prepares to conquer the women by making them submissive to Christ, and through Christ, to men.The males are easily disturbed, even before they aboard the women’s craft on account of the absence of references to men and institutions they supposed arose on account of the existence of men:You notice they never talk about their husbands? Bud laughs. I asked a couple of them what their husbands did and I swear they had to think. And they all have kids. Believe me, its a swinging scene down there, even if old. Andy acts like he hasnt found out what its for.Maybe they dont have families. You ever hearem mention anybody getting married? That has to be the one thing on a chicks mind. Mark my words, theres been some changes made.It even talks about the “ethics” of cloning – while Lorimer is aghast at the idea that none of the people he has seen after a space of two hundred years are “real” and yet they seem perfectly natural, real and different, one of the Judys, who had volunteered the information, extols the virtues of having multiple selves, as opposed to having only one. How do you know who you are? Or who anybody is? All alone, no sisters (clones) to share with! You dont know what you can do, or what would be interesting to try. All you poor singletons, you why, you just have to blunder along and die, all for nothing! - the idea being that it must be so lonely for us not to realize the potentialities of our different selves, which Lorimer ruminates over as:Bemused, Lorimer tries to think how it would be, hearing the voices of three hundred years of Orren Lorimers. Lorimers who were mathematicians or plumbers or artists or bums or criminals, maybe. The continuing exploration and completion of self. And a dozen living doubles; aged Lorimers, infant Lorimers. And other Lorimers women and children . . . would he enjoy it or resent it? He doesnt know.I was in splits at this idea – obviously, I’ve never thought of cloning that way – the only вЂgood’ use of it in my mind up to now was resurrecting a dead loved one, only to realize s/he was the same only in body, not in mind. And a movie (The Island) gave me the вЂbad’ idea that I could clone myself and keep her in captivity and use her organs when mine failed – but I’m not going to do that. And I have no idea if, like Lorimer, I’d like to see a dozen Lit Bugs strolling around the city as pilots, beggars, gangsters, homemakers, assassins or schizophrenics.All through the work, Lorimer, however, is the only one who seems sane. Unsuccessfully, he tries to get Bud off Judy and later maintains that the women were doing just fine by themselves when Dave calls them вЂlost children… who have вЂforgotten He who made them… and who, вЂfor generations have lived in the darkness’.Like Bud’s attempt to rape Judy, Dave’s rhetoric of Women are not capable of running anything. You should know that, Lorimer. Look what theyve done here, its pathetic. Marking time, thats all. Poor souls. Dave sighs gravely. It is not their fault. I recognize that. Nobody has given them any guidance for three hundred years. Like a chicken with its head off. is full of chilling implications. The comic, amusing, slightly sarcastic tone of the novella suddenly turns grim with the possibility of Bud and Dave taking over the two million women.But the scene turns even grimmer with the until now reasonable Lorimer’s argument when the women kill Bud and Dave:They were good men, Lorimer repeats elegiacally. He knows he is speaking for it all, for Daves Father, for Buds manhood, for himself, for Cro-Magnon, for the dinosaurs too, maybe. Im a man. By god yes, Im angry. I have a right. We gave you all this, we made it all. We built your precious civilization and your knowledge and comfort and medicines and your dreams. All of it. We protected you, we worked our balls off keeping you and your kids. It was hard. It was a fight, a bloody fight all the way. Were tough. We had to be, cant you understand? Cant you for Christs sake understand that?Were trying. Lady Blue sighs. We are trying, Dr. Lorimer. Of course we enjoy your inventions and we do appreciate your evolutionary role. But you must see theres a problem. As I understand it, what you protected people from was largely other males, wasnt it? Weve just had an extraordinary demonstration. You have brought history to life for us ……..But the fighting is long over. It ended when you did, I believe. We can hardly turn you loose on Earth,and we simply have no facilities for people with your emotional problems(view spoiler)[At this point, Lorimer understands that the all-women world has no more use for him, and will kill him anyway. He willingly accepts poison:The drink tastes cool going down, something like peace and freedom, he thinks. Or death. (hide spoiler)]Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. mp3 read iBooks txt get
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