Joanna tries to teach Janet the ins and outs of North American culture, and she tries her best to make the alien woman act like a lady.
Jeannine flits in and out of the picture too, and sometimes Janet kicks her. Jeannine's there too (why, we don't know), and the three J's go on a little joyride.įor six and a half months, Joanna lives with Janet in a large hotel suite and shows her around Manhattan. Joanna figures the world is a strange place, and decides not to worry about it.įinally, one night while Joanna is standing on Broadway and watching a parade, Janet pulls up in a limousine and invites her in. For some reason, Jeannine keeps popping up in Joanna's house, running through walls and getting stuck in mirrors. Joanna wants to hear everything she can about this Janet from another planet, and over the next month or so she follows all of the media stories covering the Whileawayan emissary's visit. Jeannine has no idea why she's suddenly sitting in a cocktail lounge in Joanna's world, but pretty soon she pops out of existence again, so… yeah, no harm, no foul.
Joanna doesn't own a TV, so she heads to a cocktail lounge where she can watch a live interview with the blonde, attractive lady alien, whose name is Janet Evason Belin.Īs she sits in the lounge, Joanna notices another woman there who seems slightly younger than her, and whose clothes are totally out of date. A woman named Joanna is intrigued by the headlines she's seen recently: it seems that Earth has a visitor from a planet run entirely by women. We open (more or less) in Manhattan, 1969. But we'll give it a shot for you, dear Shmooper. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781399607759 Number of pages: 224 Weight: 206 g Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 20 mm You may also be interested in.We're not gonna lie: it's tricky to summarize a novel's plot when the thing has four intersecting timelines-even trickier than rocking a rhyme that's right on time (it's tricky). Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction 'It's a gorgeous book, frankly, and well worth any reader's time' - Tor.com 'She was brilliant in a way that couldn't be denied'- The New Yorker It's also screamingly funny' - San Francisco Review of Books 'A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. Award and a 2002 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame award. And they find themselves looking at their own worlds with new eyes.Īcclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction, The Female Man examines gender roles in society and remains a work of great power. When these women are suddenly able to communicate with each other through the boundaries of dimensions, they are confronted with what could have been if one thing changed in history. Four women, four worlds, four vastly different societies.
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