![]() ![]() If memory serves, the question What Happened? is never answered.Īnother important example is the novella Consider Her Ways (1956) by John Wyndham, in which a modern woman travels mentally to a future time when all men died from a virus. Notably, this work not only features a world without men, but also one without women. Jumping forward in time, we find Philip Wylie dealing with a similar theme in his 1951 novel The Disappearance. (If you know Perkins at all, it’s probably because of her classic psychological horror story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), which has been reprinted many times.) ![]() Maybe someday it will appear in book form. Flipping carefully through these old, dusty pages, I found out that it deals with a group of male explorers who come across a remote land populated only by women. ![]() I won’t claim to have discovered the origin of this idea, but digging deep into old bound periodicals reveals that the early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman dealt with it as far back as 1915, in Herland, a novel serialized in her own magazine, The Forerunner. ![]() One of the more unusual themes of science fiction and fantasy is a society entirely made up of women. ![]()
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