Red Queen

Rating:
Summary: Not a great read...
Review: A fictional novel where a female scientist has designed a virus to kill off all men. She then takes over the country and develops methods by which pregnancies can be started by egg manipulation. They have armies to kill off any remaining men. But it turns out that the reproduction methods have serious drawbacks they can't solve, so they are killing themselves off. One remaining man exists, and ends up being the person they need to save them. Too much feminist jargon that turns out to be faulty in the end.

Rating:
Summary: Not a great read...
Review: A fictional novel where a female scientist has designed a virus to kill off all men. She then takes over the country and develops methods by which pregnancies can be started by egg manipulation. They have armies to kill off any remaining men. But it turns out that the reproduction methods have serious drawbacks they can't solve, so they are killing themselves off. One remaining man exists, and ends up being the person they need to save them. Too much feminist jargon that turns out to be faulty in the end.

Rating:
Summary: Two great minds
Review: In 1991-1992 I wrote a book dealing with the same subject and came to the same conclusions. I tried to interest some publishers in Israel (I write in Hebrew) and, since I was rejected for all the wrong reasons, I put it aside just to learn, ten years later, that a more persistent author overcame the publisher's opinion.

I learned about the Red Queen only when an Australian resarcher (Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan) became famous for a method in which no male sperm is needed for fertilization. When I told her about my book she told me about Dirk Draulans's book which, according to her, was the same book as mine.

I am not acusing anybody of plagiarism, but I am afraid that it is too late for me now to try and publish something that has already been published.

Since then I made a few changes in the novel, returned the men to life and spread love and hope in the miserable world I had built. The reason I rank the Red Queen only 1 star is that the author failed to make those corrections.

Rating:
Summary: A depressing, ugly view of a future with passive women
Review: The biological possiblities of asexual reproduction are over-stressed and ultimately boring. The worst part of this book's view of the future is the utter passivity and incompetence of a world of women. All technology (except biological research) breaks down - presumably there are no competent women engineers to run anything. The women allow themselves to be pushed by a totalitarian government into a lifestyle they despise. Reviews of the book describe Diana as a man-hating woman; I have to feel that the author is a woman-hating man to portray such a gloomy result of female dominance.