The unnamed midwife7/4/2023 ![]() In this evolved world, Etta is allowed to choose the traditionally male job of raider, although she must still pretend to be a man to travel across a sparsely populated Midwest. The midwife’s legacy lives on in the town of Nowhere, where women are decision-makers and leaders. ![]() In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. ![]() This week on New Books in Science Fiction, Rob Wolf talks to Meg Elison about the final installment in The Road to Nowhere, a trilogy that’s as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. ![]()
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