via wikipedia:
Gendercide is a neologism that refers to the systematic killing of members of a specific sex, either males or females.
In science fiction, the term is associated with the death of all or most of one sex.
Partial Bibliography of Gendercide Titles
Gleaned from FeministSF
Tiptree, James, Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976)
Gardner, Thomas S.
"The Last Woman."
Wonder Stories (April 1932)
Keene, Day (pseud. for Gunard Hjerstedt, 1903-1969) and Leonard Pruyn
World Without Women (1960)
Draulans, Dirk
The Red Queen: A Novel of the War Between the Sexes (1997)
Ellison, Harlan
"World of Women"
Fantastic Science Fiction (February, 1957)
Young, F. E.
The War of the Sexes (1905)
Russ, Joanna
The Female Man (1975)
more to follow
3/24/08
3/4/08
More Apocalypse Kitsch
From Zazzle.
A fine encapsulation of the ideas behind The Last MAN on Earth subcategory, even down to the dramatic capitalization.
Standard dating jape.
Dating questionnaire:
Will you go on a date with me?
__Yes, I'd love too
__Yes
__Maybe
__No
__No, not if you were the last man on earth
A fine encapsulation of the ideas behind The Last MAN on Earth subcategory, even down to the dramatic capitalization.
Standard dating jape.
Dating questionnaire:
Will you go on a date with me?
__Yes, I'd love too
__Yes
__Maybe
__No
__No, not if you were the last man on earth
Metafilter: "Last Man on Earth" Stories? thread
link
Sadly, most of them are not Last Man stories at all.
Main things to investigate:
There was a short-short in Omni some years back, and I can't remember the title. The last man on earth is a German boy whos aging has retarded. The last woman on earth is a Japanese girl with the same problem. They talk by radio, and the rest would be spoilers. Beautiful story. I think it was "Forever" by Damon Knight, but don't quote me.
Marooned in Real Time by Vernor Vinge has a last woman on Earth scenario. It's post-singularity rather than post-apocalypse.
Edit: Read 2008 May. Story doesn't fit into genre. She knows other people are alive, she just can't live long enough to see them again.
This is a running theme in all the incarnations of the Twilight Zone. In the second (1980s) series, the shattering "A Little Peace and Quiet."
Edit: Story is actually about a woman who stops time to prevent nuclear war, but then is trapped forever. If she unfreezes time, the missiles hanging over America will detonate. An altruistic re-tread of first Twilight Zone series episode A Kind Of Stopwatch.
Sadly, most of them are not Last Man stories at all.
Main things to investigate:
There was a short-short in Omni some years back, and I can't remember the title. The last man on earth is a German boy whos aging has retarded. The last woman on earth is a Japanese girl with the same problem. They talk by radio, and the rest would be spoilers. Beautiful story. I think it was "Forever" by Damon Knight, but don't quote me.
Marooned in Real Time by Vernor Vinge has a last woman on Earth scenario. It's post-singularity rather than post-apocalypse.
Edit: Read 2008 May. Story doesn't fit into genre. She knows other people are alive, she just can't live long enough to see them again.
This is a running theme in all the incarnations of the Twilight Zone. In the second (1980s) series, the shattering "A Little Peace and Quiet."
Edit: Story is actually about a woman who stops time to prevent nuclear war, but then is trapped forever. If she unfreezes time, the missiles hanging over America will detonate. An altruistic re-tread of first Twilight Zone series episode A Kind Of Stopwatch.
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