Book with no female characters and book with no male characters
I want a book where there’s only one gender’s characters. Bonus point if it’s not set in isolated places the location is in metropolitan or social areas where both genders would usually mix.
* 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.
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Here are some:
* 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
* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison