The Red Queen

By Dirk Draulans

Book Overview

In a world in which men are thought to be no longer needed for reproduction, female warriors hunt down the only man to survive their genetic weapon, unaware that he is in fact necessary to keep the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312156367
• ISBN13: 9780312156367
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Mad Max meets 1984

Would make a fantastic movie. What's even more interesting than the plot itself are the passages and lectures the man-hating Diana gives at the beginning of each chapter. Whereas in George Orwell's 1984 it was mostly boring droning going on through the TV SET that controlled the population, here we are taught and interestingly shown how sexual reproduction takes place in other parts of nature, and how female species can survive alone and/or are the dominant leader. These passages of facts are a wonder in itself. From nasty bed bug sex to uncanny fish who can swap thier sex when populations are low, to families of monkeys where the female is leader. The facts in here are outstanding and make excellent dinner talk for later. Overall, this is an exhilirating read with a little Mad Max thrown in too as women ride around in pickups in a post apocalyptic woman-dominated future with a machine gun mounted at back ready to gun down any surviving men who are immune to the male killing virus and spend thier last days hiding out in the woods, escaping a hitleresque type annihilation. Diana ultimately realizes though that they must keep some men alive when test tube breeding between women fails to give birth to a healthy female baby. Surviving men are then collected and thrust into a chamber of terror and torture as they are mechanically milked for their semen to continue the all-female population.