The World Turned Upside Down
( French - Le monde reversé - 1872 )
novel by Léonie Rouzade
translated by Brian Stableford
Published: Black Coat Press - trade paperback - 2014 ( French Science Fiction no.132 )
ISBN: 1612273467 / 9781612273464
Black Coat Press ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook - 2015
eISBN: 2940151343442
Black Coat Press ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2015
ASIN: B00UAYKQDC
contents
The World Turned Upside Down] ( aka Le Monde Renversé 1872 )
A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia ( aka Voyage de Théodosie à l'Île d'Utopie 1872 )
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.
synopsis
The World Turned Upside Down: The earliest fantasy of gender role reversal ever penned. An idealized woman, Celestine, climbs out of her circumscribed existence to rule a foreign kingdom, only to mandate the subjugation of men by women.
A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia; When a shipwreck strands a man in a perfect island civilization, he, after confronting a parade of didactic lectures, accepts that the rigors of logic have rendered obsolete human individuality.
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( French - Le monde reversé - 1872 )
novel by Léonie Rouzade
translated by Brian Stableford
Published: Black Coat Press - trade paperback - 2014 ( French Science Fiction no.132 )
ISBN: 1612273467 / 9781612273464
Black Coat Press ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook - 2015
eISBN: 2940151343442
Black Coat Press ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2015
ASIN: B00UAYKQDC
contents
The World Turned Upside Down] ( aka Le Monde Renversé 1872 )
A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia ( aka Voyage de Théodosie à l'Île d'Utopie 1872 )
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.
synopsis
The World Turned Upside Down: The earliest fantasy of gender role reversal ever penned. An idealized woman, Celestine, climbs out of her circumscribed existence to rule a foreign kingdom, only to mandate the subjugation of men by women.
A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia; When a shipwreck strands a man in a perfect island civilization, he, after confronting a parade of didactic lectures, accepts that the rigors of logic have rendered obsolete human individuality.
awards
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