Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!topaz!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!norman From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: mono sex societies Message-ID: <633@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 18:55:00 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.633 Posted: Tue Oct 29 18:55:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:39:58 EST References: <215@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 21 THe only story I know of which deals intelligibly with a society based on fusion of ova is "When it Changed" by joanna Russ. A wonderful story it is, too. (SPOILER WARNING) James Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, do you Read" postulates a single-sex society based on cloning. Very interestingly worked out; the people in the society are all busily exploring the possibilities of their genome. For example, "Lucy's" talk a lot (I think it's Lucys). Personally I think such a society is stuck in a genetic dead end, but the ideas are fascinating and the stoy itself is very good. -- Norman Ramsey ARPA: norman@lasspvax -- or -- norman%lasspvax@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu UUCP: {ihnp4,allegra,...}!cornell!lasspvax!norman BITNET: (in desperation only) ZSYJ at CORNELLA US Mail: Dept Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Telephone: (607)-256-3944 (work) (607)-272-7750 (home)