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Who Needs Men?

Edmund Cooper (1972)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
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Rura Alexandra, Madam Exterminator, had recently graduated into a 25th century world where men had become biologically less important, where women could reproduce as they wished by cloning and parthenogenesis. Her task was simple - in theory, if not in practice; to wipe out the last few thousand men who had taken refuge in the Highlands of Scotland. But an ambush near Loch Lomond led to rape, and the killing of her fellow-exterminators. And Diarmid MacDiarmid, the last remaining rebel chieftan proved too much of a fascination...