Talk:Single-gender world/Archive 1

Archive 1

Needed

• amazons
• pulp depictions of women (on venus etc)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Yobmod (talk • contribs) 09:03, August 28, 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Single-gender worlds

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Single-gender worlds's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "EoSF":

• From Homosexuality in speculative fiction: Clute & Nicholls, p. 1088 "Sex"
• From Religion in speculative fiction: Clute, John & Nicholls, Peter,The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Religion" p. 1000, 2nd Ed., (1999), Orbit, Great Britain, ISBN-10: 1857238974

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal

For some unexplained reason this was removed. Can someone explain to me how a famous short sci-fi story about a male only world doesnt belong in this article? I mean what possible reason would there be for not including it? Yet it was deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.228.169.184 (talk) 01:34, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Needing citations:

"The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal" by Cordwainer Smith is another story of a male-only society. It depicts a world where estrogen became a carcinogenic. The all-male population reproduce by grafting tissue in such a way as to make artificial wombs. They hate the idea that there are women in the universe and try to eradicate them.

A. Bertram Chandler's "A Spartan Planet" features the men-only planet Sparta which is dedicated to the values militarism loosly modeled upon the ancient Greek City State of Sparta.

The planet Krieg in the game Warhammer 40,000, having been devastated by weapons of mass destruction, is another example of male-only society. Relying on cloning to reproduce, all humans on Krieg are produced male, as they have been determined by the government to be genetically preferable for the Death Korps, Krieg's army. Krieg's society is grim and warlike, and their soldiers commonly wear gas masks and dark, drab colours.

A prime example is the Wraeththu (1987-89) trilogy by Storm Constantine, in which much of the male portion of the human race is converted to a new species of physiologically hermaphroditic post-humans. Other examples of alternative but not strictly gay sexuality in science fiction include Theodore Sturgeon's Venus Plus X.

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Earth, the first outside visitors to Solaria in thousands of years since it was first depicted in The Naked Sun learn that the inhabitants have become hermaphrodites to eliminate all need for physical contact.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Yobmod (talk • contribs) 09:27, March 18, 2009 (UTC)

Proposed Article Name: Fictional Single Sex Societies

Can we please change the article name to Fictional Single Sex Societies or even Fictional Planetary Single Sex Societies? Earth is not a human-only planet. The vast majority of animal biomass on Earth are insects. Just because the dominant race on a given fictional planet is single-sex does not mean that all species on the planet are members of the same sex. Earth has multiple species. Some have one sex; some have two. Some are quadrupeds; some are bipeds, etc. Can we realistically call earth a bipedal planet? samwaltz (talk) 03:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)