World without men

About this book

"The world of five thousand years for now was a world of only one sex, women. Love was an unnatural affair, fostered by the inhuman hand of the unseen government. Babies were created by laboratory techniques based on mass-deception. There was one all-important project that supplied humanity's only motive for continued existence, the struggle to re-create the male sex. Yet the very act of realizing this dream was to set up a crisis the world of women had never anticipated, and could not control! Here is a truly unique novel which dares to discuss a scientific subject hitherto untouched by science-fiction. Slanted for the intelligent adult reader, it will be ranked with 1984 and Brave New World."

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About the author

Charles Eric Maine

21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981

Charles Eric Maine is the pen name of David McIlwain. He was born in Liverpool, UK. He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine called Gargoyle. During World War II, he was in the Royal Air Force and served in Northern Africa in 1943. After the war, he worked in TV engineering, and became involved in editorial work with radio and TV. During 1952, he sold his first radio play, Spaceways, to the BBC. Due to its popularity, it became a novel as well as a movie. He wrote more than a dozen novels, four of which were made into movies. He died in London in 1981. Source: …