All,
I am looking for comps for my speculative fiction novel, set on an island of all black females. They reproduce by cloning. The government is oppressive, though things look great on the outside. The MC is ex-military though disillusioned with her former employer. Motherhood conflicts with tradition/culture.
Can you think of books with similar themes or population?
BTW, I have The End of Men and Femlandia on my TBR. Looking for comps written within the last 5 years, preferred within the last 2. TYIA.
by galaxyhick
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Unfortunately, I don’t have any from the last 2 years. But here are some that otherwise fit:
* The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley. No male characters, which technically is a mild spoiler as it’s never outright stated, the reader is just supposed to realize this eventually.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Be warned, contains explicit gore, sex, and scenes of sexual violence. No cisgender men, so all the characters are either cis women, trans women, or trans men. References the (mostly) male only older sci fi story, [The Screwfly Solution](https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/)
Honorable mentions: strong gender imbalance, but not *exclusively* one or the other.
* Glory Season by David Brin. Inspired by Herlandia. Majority female space colony where most of the population are clone daughters.
* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Woman from larger human civilization goes to all-female planet where the women reproduce by cloning.
* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison. On my to-read list, haven’t yet read it.
* The Moon and the Other by John Kessel. On my to-read list, haven’t yet read it.
* The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. Themes of oppression that looks great from the outside, and motherhood, but no gender imbalance.