Wanderground
The Wandergroundis a feminist classic that deserves a  fresh reading. In these linked stories, Sally Gearhart portrays a futuristic lesbian utopia  where women can communicate telepathically with each other, as well as with plants and  animals. The women in the community of Wanderground raise  children collectively, choose to die when they think it is time, and  heal physical wounds by inducing their own bloodletting.   While at first glance this book may appear to be a naive science  fiction-romance, the ideas in it are quite prescient. Many of the  terms inThe Wanderground--learntogether,listenspread--are  compound words coined by Gearhart to suggest forms of communication  that seemed impossible in the late 1970s, but that have become common in  the age of the Internet. Gearhart's text foresaw that a world in which lesbians can live safely and  independently is  also a world in which communication does not require the physical  presence of the body.