Theodore Savage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262545228)

From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization--and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.

When war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During the brief war, in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut--a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who--being "unhandy, unresourceful, superficial"--would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.

Author: Cicely Hamilton
ISBN-10: 0262545225
ISBN-13: 9780262545228
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 12/27/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/09/2023