 Join me and my co-hosts every Saturday at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Pacific for cartoons and movies at the 50th Street Studio Twitch Channel. See you there Greetings everybody. This is Keith at 30 seconds sci-fi here at the fabulous 50th Street Studio This week. I'm going to tell you about her land a 1915 novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman published As a serial in a magazine just like every other novel was back at that time, but in this case The magazine was Written and published by Gilman herself. She was very enterprising It sounds like the kind of thing I would do having trouble finding a place to publish my own book So make my own magazine It is another lost utopia book and Obviously a utopia inhabited only by women The unusual the really unusual thing in this case being that the women reproduce by parthenogenesis by natural cloning Usually with these Amazonian Societies the women raid the outside world periodically for men to reproduce with but not in this case I found the book engaging all the way through. It's about three men in a biplane who Discover this lost plateau with this a society of all women on it being Women who reproduce by natural cloning They are very focused on motherhood and on very focused on their children who are all women as well and They they very carefully trace their lineages back to thousands of years when this all started There's there's a whole complex story about how the men of their society Died out after most were killed in a volcano explosion or something like that And one of the women experienced a natural mutation That's that simple, but these three men Find themselves Not so much taken prisoner. Well, yes, they are taken prisoner, but they're also Studied these women are very serious about education. They're very curious about the outside world and about outside Western traditions and everything they over the course of years as they keep these men under close watch they learn to speak English they they learn as much as they can about British society and they want to experience British or English Western world traditions so these these three men find themselves going through marriage ceremonies with three young women and Of course these women don't understand what they're getting into because these men each have very different ideas about women and their roles in society and what their roles should be and especially in relation to men This one guy in particular is sadly mistaken when he thinks he can have his way with this new wife of his It's very well thought out very well written and entertaining There was a follow-up book about two of the couples returning to the Western world Because this one guy in particular whom I've referenced before he ends up being exiled from her land because He's he's just too dangerous He's not He's not getting it. He's not getting the fact that he is in a different world Where he is not going to be allowed to be Lord God King And when he's exiled his young wife is going with him And one of the other guys says no my wife and I have to accompany them because we're not gonna let this poor girl Get taken into the Western world by this guy It's a book that I it sounds like I need to read Because I did enjoy this particular one there. It's it's gotten some criticisms for Racism and eugenics, which are the things that you would expect especially from a book written at that time, but it's another one of these Gulliver's Travels Social satire Utopia lost utopia books that I've read and recommend Thank you for watching Please come back next week for more science fiction and please become a sponsor follow the links on screen and in the description below To help me make more of these videos and please leave a comment. Let me know what you think