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Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.











It contrasts all of those testosterone-stuffed space captains like Han Solo or Kirk with a sharp bite, a provocation. The male crew reacts in a bad way to this revelation.Ī dark, sarcastic, feminist story – men wake up just to find out that they are unwanted and useless, resorting to violence and rape. They gather clues and figure out that the whole humanity is cloned from some 11,000 genotypes. As they realize that this is the future, they wonder why it isn’t further advanced. Houston doesn’t react any more, but they are grabbed up by a spaceship with female crew.

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.

The story follows three male astronauts via flashbacks on their circumsolar mission, when something goes wrong and they are transported into a future, where males are completely extinguised by some epidemic on Earth.













Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.