Winston K. Marks 17 min read

'The Humanist Party is not a party at all, it's an oligarchy,' Dr. Long shouts to eight hundred students, denouncing a select group of feminists who rig the elections and hold absolute power.

Winston K. Marks's 1958 story is a colorful, pulpy social-SF space opera of a matriarchal conspiracy. Fast, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing adventure where a rash professor exposes the women secretly ruling the world, and finds the deadly daughters equally at home with men, murder, and matrimony.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

17 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Irving H. Novick