Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 hr 29 min read

Three male explorers stumble upon a hidden land inhabited solely by women, a peaceful, thriving civilization that has flourished for two thousand years without a single man.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 novel is a landmark feminist utopia, at once a thought experiment, a satire, and a vision of a saner society. Sharp, witty, hugely influential. Read it for a foundational feminist science fiction classic that turns its explorers' assumptions gently, devastatingly upside down.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).