Currently HTTP, XMPP (internet chat) and Minecraft servers.

I love a bit of 40K.

Thanks, that’ll be my next read on the subject.

I’ll give you a book recommendation back in return: Wild Spinning Girls by Carol Lovekin. This one stood out to me as specifically related to the society I am imagining due to the presence of ghosts and witchcraft and the gothic atmosphere.

It’s no surprise that Le Guin doesn’t get enough play. The literature market can be fickle due to the sheer size of it, the difficulty getting your work adapted into screen media (assuming one wants that), the amount of time and effort you need to spend on getting qualified to write and/or becoming experienced, the usual scarcity of human attention, etc. In fact, I think that last one is pretty significant. Only a tiny number of writers are going to hold the public attention at any one time.

Thanks for the ideas, as well.

Finally, someone who understands.

Context

I’m not the first creator to imagine an all-female society, and I usually will focus on the male characters, but after reading about the Scythians, the Amazons they may have inspired, and the working women of the US in WW2, I got intrigued. Started to wonder how women would organize themselves if left to their own devices for long periods.

The all (or almost all) female society in this post ironically constitutes the more “normal” or civilian portion of the population, as most of the male population is away at war (the war being perpetual). They usually don’t see males except to reproduce.

Largely concealed from the war (except for the occasional incursion), and without male leadership, the women organize themselves into a fairly egalitarian society with no formal leadership and no overt domination. The society operates on the deployment of magic and magical artifacts, has no concept of money, and most manual work is done not by the women themselves but by “Servitors” - mindless bio-engineered servant creatures.

The work that does remain to be done by the women has mostly to do with the production of magical power of some kind, or the construction of temples, which they pursue with great enthusiasm, to the point where their cities (which are their primary residences) often have more temples than actual homes.

There are few class distinctions, and women mostly work with each other to achieve mutual goals in magic, for the long or short term, but if there can be said to be an “upper class”, it would be those who have the most aptitude in magic, the High Priestesses, who tend to lead the others in magic rituals.

Just want to say thanks for reading all that, and thanks to the mods for providing the worldbuilding community. Hope you find the context intriguing (and were amused by the picture)! I may be back with more.

It can print the letters out!

Yes, D.

I have deleted the Enterprise E. Pray I don’t delete any further.

Ork psychic powers make it work!

I… I don’t know that!

Enterprise-D, naturally.

No.

Haha, I didn’t mean in liquid form. I was thinking more in living solid form, as usual.

Thanks. Kaplah!

Bottom-right looks like Kylo Ren.

Yes, but he is also bald.

Yes, but he is also bald.

Magic: The Gathering.