num_pages: 187
description: With the twenty-first century nearing its end, the status quo on Earth has undergone a complete reversal. Women have become the dominant sex, with men relegated to the position of innocent chattels. Into this perverse world comes Dion Quern, a self-styled troubadour, and one who refuses to conform. But with woman superior to man in both physique and number, Dion retreats into a state of mental isolation, overwhelmed by the enormous sense of his inadequacy. So that when he is inadvertently involved in a plot to bring about the downfall of this feminarchy, the eventual outcome of his actions defies the strained limits of even his crazed imagination. ’The great merits of Five to Twelve are that its comedy is basically serious, and that although often fantastic it is never absurd.’--The Sunday Times 
language: English
title: Five to twelve
titlecomplete: Five to twelve
characters: Dion Quern
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Gender
ratings_count: 139
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. (London)