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Looking for a way to make it through March Madness? Well forturnately we’ve pulled together our top SFF Books for the month to help put a spring in your step and some Sci Fi into you veins! Moths explores male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy, and is described by the publisher as “a powerful assessment of life through the lens of a main character in her 70s”. He didn’t. He was too busy doing the dishes and considering the latest trends in navy blue M&S trousers, to worry his pretty little head about such things. How do you treat the trans community in the novel? Now the world is quiet again, but only because secrets are kept safe in whispers. And the biggest secret of all? No one wants to live inside a cage… Jane Hennigan is an English author, who graduation university after studying English and Philosophy, then began teaching it. Jane began writing with any spare time that she had.
There are so many great themes explored in this book, including of course who gets to control things in this new world, and why. And then, upon finishing, I was delighted to find that there is a sequel! I definitely need more of this world, and I hope that there can be some semblance of peace found in this dark world. Definitely not for the squeamish, as some content is almost certainly likely to upset those with a sensitive heart. In other words, there is colourful content aplenty. But then again, the world is going to hell, and society is falling everywhere you look, so what on earth do you expect? Some images will linger long in th I liked that the main protagonist was a much older woman who had lived through the outbreak. Mary brought a breath of fresh air to the proceedings that sometimes you lose with younger ones. As a survivor, she and her friend Olivia had a certain rapport which helped bring some humour to the narrative. However, the women of The Union have worked together for the last forty years through many hardships and have built a strong society based on agriculture and recycling. Medicine, and engineering – especially regarding solar power, are prioritised as is education – for women at least. We’re primarily introduced to the world of Moths via Mary – why did you choose Mary to be the book’s protagonist and what can you tell us about her?There is a sequel! I’m writing it now and I am very pleased with how it’s going (so far!). Sign up for the newsletter and I will give you updates on how it’s coming along, as well as additional content. Could the Moth thing really happen? Welcome to Paranormal Romance! This group is for the discussion and recommendation of paranormal romances and paranormal erotic romance, along with ur Welcome to Paranormal Romance! This group is for the discussion and recommendation of paranormal romances and paranormal erotic romance, along with urban fantasy, science fiction, futuristic, and fantasy romance. If you love vampires, werewolves, and hot faery men, this is the group for you. Join up and discuss your favorite books! You explore some big, and extremely topical, themes: male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy. How do you feel about continuing sci-fi’s great tradition of providing explorative terrain for current societal issues? Similar to Atwood’s assertion in The Handmaid’s Tale, every act of male violence in Moths is taken from an actual incident. Research for this part of the novel was grim, and I spent much of this time furious. I think you can feel the rage in those scenes. Let’s delve beneath the cover and into your dystopia. You’ve talked about being influenced by feminist dystopias, and also an article about a toxic caterpillar? Can you tell us more about how these two things merged into Moths?
The character work in this one is great. I loved seeing the story through the eyes of an older woman, a perspective we don't see enough in fiction. There are other well developed side characters including an individual bringing a queer perspective. Forty years ago, the world changed in Jane Hennigan’s Moths. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around the globe. Some were killed quietly in their sleep, others became crazed killers, wildly dangerous and beyond help. All seemed hopeless. But humanity adapted, healed and moved on. The gender role reversal in this new world was done subtly but had a big impact as all it did was have the women of the future describe the men how men describe women in this day and age. This stereotyping adds a level of absurdity as it highlights just how ridiculous it is to associate women with certain innate traits, but it is also quite jarring when you realise it feels quite unnatural to read men be described as weak and silly but it doesn’t feel strange reading women be described this way. Add to the fact that these men are staging protests for access to more education, etc, similar to what women had to do in the past to receive basic human rights, but when applied to men it really stands out how wrong and unfair this was. I find, as a woman today, we often accept that we were treated unjustly in the past but often forget how strict and narrow our lives actually were. Putting these same issues on men really makes it stand out how absurd it is to assume one sex is weaker than the other and then use this as a way to control.
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An outstanding debut with a unique voice, drawing parallels with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, The Ten Percent Thief crafts an indelible image of a world that has lost it’s humanity, trapped by it’s reliance on statistics and devotion to technology and productivity. Told through a complex mosaic of interwoven stories The Ten Percent Thief is a new masterpiece of science fiction wiriting. This really is dystopian future at its best, a heartfelt admonition of covetous behavour that is inspiring, and hopeful. It turns out that the internet is very difficult to reboot once all the servers across the world have gone offline so that is also gone. Mary has settled into this new world and takes care of the male residents at her facility. But she still remembers how things used to be and is constantly haunted by her memories. Of her family, of her joy, of… him.
There are scenes here, like one in a hospital and another in a suburban garden, which will stay with you. This book is literally nightmarish. It worked its way into my dreams. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? The threads spell doom for humanity – half of it, at least. All around the world, men are dying in their sleep or turning into rage-fuelled killers. The world, as we know it, ends. However, humanity adapts and society moves on.Also, paradoxically, there are also some odd gender stereotypes... At one point it's mentioned that the women didn't struggle with cars after the men were infected because...it was easy to learn from a manual. Were there no women who knew about cars before? It's a powerful book nonetheless. The violence enacted by the infected men is horrific beyond measure but also nothing that hasn't been done to a woman by a man in today's world. I would this one to recommend to this readers looking for a different kind of pandemic story that is softer and more complex than the usual tropey narratives. I thought very hard about what might remain in the post-infestation world and what might be lost. Some things – like national power grids and international logistics fail, not because it’s only the women left – but because there were not enough people, in general, to keep the infrastructure viable (most of the rest of the world has fallen into post-apocalyptic chaos – dying out without insemination programmes to replenish the population).
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