num_pages: 278
description: Three hundred years ago, the world all but burned to ash in the flames of a nuclear holocaust. Before the embers had cooled, the survivors swore that it would never happen again. Civilization as it once was evolved into a society of two disparate parts. In Women’s Country, walled towns enclose what is left of the best of the past, nurtured by women and capable but nonviolent men. Outposts of safety and security in a hostile, slowly healing world, places like Marthatown raise children, feed and clothe the populace, and cultivate the lost biological sciences. In adjacent garrisons, men live only to wage primitive war and plot insurrection. To the women, the men in garrisons are sons, brothers, lovers, lost to a code of violence and false glory once they embrace the warrior life.This is the world that Stavia and Chernon were born to live in, a world bound by rules too strict for some children to understand. Rules too harsh for a child like Stavia to obey.When only a girl, Stavia tried to convince Chernon to return to Women’s Country. She brought him books that most men had been forbidden to read for as long as anyone could remember. Chernon took the books, but rejected Stavia and her world. Now a young medic, Stavia still hopes to win Chernon by reminding him of the love they shared nearly ten years before. Though Chernon is a stranger to her now, Stavia gives in to the voice that begs her to trust him, allowing him to accompany her on a mission to the southern borderlands.Their journey is filled with the love, hate, lust, and betrayal that divide their worlds. And when sudden violence engulfs them both, not even the secrets of Women’s Country can prevent the death of Stavia’s innocence. Stavia is left with no choice but to take on the responsibility for her transgressions if she is to prevent a far greater tragedy—one which could destroy humanity completely.
language: English
title: The Gate to Women's Country
titlecomplete: The Gate to Women's Country
characters: Sylvia, Beneda, Jerby, Dawid, Stavia, Chernon, Myra Morgotdoughter, Morgot
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Gender, Speculative Fiction, Womens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Feminism, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 13310
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award
publisher: Doubleday