On a dark and moonless planet, mutations have left women as little more than wombs, while men can teleport but have limited control over the ability When aliens come to plunder this world's resources, the already harsh environment degrades exponentially Will the Galactic Federation find this world in time to help the natives restore their women and save their civilization?

A visionary novel in the tradition of Ursula K LeGuin and James Tiptree, Jr , by a leading feminist author

With an afterword by Nalo Hopkinson

Phyllis Gotlieb was born in Toronto, Canada where she still currently resides. She is married to Calvin Gotlieb, now ­professor emeritus of Computer ­Science at the University of Toronto and has three grown children, and four grandchildren. She has published five volumes of ­poetry, nine novels (eight of them ­science fiction), as well as two story collections, and has co-edited an anthology of Canadian science fiction. Versions of her works have appeared in nine languages worldwide.

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Nalo Hopkinson co-edited So Long Been Dreaming, an anthology of science fiction and fantasy by writers of colour, with Upppinder Mehan. She is the internationally acclaimed author of Brown Girl in the Ring,Skin Folk,and Salt Roads. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, and Philip K. Dick Awards; Skin Folk won a World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award. Born in Jamaica, Nalo moved to Canada when she was sixteen. She lives in Toronto.

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