AUTHOR

TITLE / DETAILS

PUBLISHER

PRICE

ATWOOD.

THE HANDMAID'S TALE.

Virago

£3.50

Margaret,

Classic Feminist Novel. Set in the Near Future.

The Story of Offred, who is a Handmaid. Handmaids only have one purpose in Life and that is to bear a child...

Fair / Good

1991

DODDERIDGE.

THE NEW GULLIVER.

Women’s Press

£3.50

Esme,

Or, the Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver Jr in Capovolta.

Science Fiction - A satire on male domination and the double-binds that are imposed on women.

Like his famous ancestor, Lemuel Gulliver Jr finds himself in a strange land amongst people with strange customs.

Gulliver is astounded to discover that women here are the dominant sex. Along with all other men, he finds himself harassed, abused, exploited.

Unfairly used at work, a domestic drudge at home, Gulliver begins to reflect on the workings of the society he once was proud to be part of.

Fair / Good

1988

ELGIN

THE JUDAS ROSE:

Women's Press

£3.75

Suzette

Or NATIVE TONGUE II.

On Earth in the future a deadly struggle is taking place between Men and Women. Language the vital link between humans and the alien powers who rule the universe, has become the ultimate weapon.

Fair / Good

1988

EMSHWILLER.

CARMEN DOG.

Women’s Press

£3.25

Carol,

Comical Sci-fi novel

The story of Pooch, a rather attractive Golden Setter, who finds herself suddenly, transformed into a woman. All over the world animals are turning into women.

V good / Mint

1988

GEARHART.

THE WANDERGROUND.

Women’s Press

£3.00

Sally Miller,

In the cities, where technology still operates, men are the masters, but cannot survive outside.

In their communities in the hill country of the "Wamderground" the women who escaped from the city have established harmony with nature and possess astonishing powers...

Fair / Good

1985

GIBSON.

VIRTUAL LIGHT.

Penguin

£3.75

William,

"Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definitely not when she was working". So how's she going to explain the sunglasses?

And not just any sunglasses, but this one, very special, very expensive pair, loaded with data that threaten to utterly transform her city of San Francisco, State of Northern California, in the year 2005.

Good / V Good

1994

HARPMAN.

THE MISTRESS OF SILENCE.

Harvill

£2.25

Josephine,

After the sirens went, life was so very different for the women. Until that moment they had lived forty women in an underground cage, under the ever-watchful eye of silent guards with whips, two meals a day, the lights forever burning. No sense of time or season. For how many years?

Twelve at least - the youngest had been a baby, wrested from her mother in the confusion that followed the disaster, and had now reached a sort of puberty. Then the sirens, just as the guards had put the key in the lock to pass through their daily rations; the guards fled, simply vanished.

The women could leave their cage, climb the hundred steps, emerge to look out over a desolate featureless prairie under light drizzle. They became a group of forty nomads, searching for what they remembered as 'civilisation', a world with men and children. All they came upon were new fears, new tormenting questions; the means to remain alive, but no reason to do so. A continuous journey but to an ever receding destination.

This story of survival after an unnamed catastrophe, on some lunar planet which might still be earth, probes with devastating effect into the common springs of memory and experience which bind people together. The narrator is the child who has known nothing before the prison cage - a Miranda trapped in a world created by an evil Prospero for purposes none can fathom.

Fair / Good

1997

Ex-Library

LANE.

MIZORA – A WORLD OF WOMEN.

Bison

£3.95

Mary E Bradley,

What would happen to our culture if men ceased to exist? Mizora explores this question, the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman.

Vera Zarovitch is a Russian noblewoman - heroic, outspoken, and determined. A political exile in Siberia, she escapes and flees north, eventually finding herself, adrift and exhausted, on a strange sea at the North Pole.

Crossing a barrier of mist and brilliant light, Zarovitch is swept into the enchanted, inner world of Mizora. A haven of music, peace, universal education, and beneficial, advanced technology, Mizora is a world of women.

Mizora appeared anonymously in the Cincinnati Commercial in 1880 and 1881. Mary E Bradley Lane concealed from her husband her role in writing the controversial story.

V Good / Mint

1999