Anna C. (eclecticlibrarian) reviewed on 8/14/2005 + 49 more book reviews

This is the first of three books (and counting, I think) that feature a women-only society. An alien woman smuggled to Earth has nine children by a native, and all are exceptionally bright and almost as long-lived as their mother. Over time they have many children and grandchildren until there are approximately six thousand descendents of Mother. She realizes that they do not have a place in the increasingly conservative patriarchy of Earth, so they create a plan to escape and colonize a planet of their own without men, which they do. Combine the mediocre writing with the unfulfilled potential of extraterrestrial exploration and the lovingly descriptive sex scenes and you get a separatist lesbian lovestory clothed in the veils of science fiction. I enjoyed the book for what it is, but the writing is hardly the best representation of this subset of the genre.

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