Author: J. Berrisford, “Women Only: A Novel”: The second science fiction novel by the author of “The Hampdenshire Miracle” (1911). A Herbert Wells-style disaster novel, with an ironic depiction of a devastated world seen through the eyes of a lower-middle-class London family. The plague destroys most of the world’s male population. The new society is tailored to the advantage of women and against old-fashioned conventions. The few survivors descend into savagery. Meanwhile, a group of women (accompanied by one surviving man) leaves the ruins of London to start over, creating a communal agrarian outpost. But most of them have no useful work skills—will the commune survive its first winter?
