![]() ![]() It’s a witty feminist utopian science fiction novel from Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain, a Bengali feminist and social reformer of the early 1900s. ![]() Sultana’s Dream By Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain Through Marghe’s perspective, the novel dives deep into themes of gender, humanity, and self-exploration. Meanwhile, an anthropologist, Marghe, arrives to explore the culture the women have created there, and to test a potential cure. ![]() It’s been ages since Jeep had contact from outside worlds, but suddenly the planet has visitors.Ī company has found a way to exploit the planet, but is forced to flee when the virus spreads. The women who managed to survive were permanently changed by the virus, too. In this novel from Nicola Griffith, centuries ago on a planet called Jeep the men were all killed by a plague. As a result, motherhood is deeply entwined into the book’s themes. One of the most intriguing elements of this all-female world is its organic nature-in order to replace parts on the ship, the characters must grow them within their bodies, gestating and then birthing them. But, they may have found a way to break free of it on a third ship-planet, Mokshi. The book is set against a world caught in a power struggle between two families and their dying worlds. This space opera from Kameron Hurley has been described as a rebuttal to male-dominated genre. ![]()
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