![]() ![]() He had no balance without it he perished’ (III, p. ![]() ![]() Like other female science fiction and science fantasy writers concerned with the implications of patriarchy, Constantine sees the causes of the ‘funeral’ residing in man’s own gender dominance: ‘Man burned himself out from within. Constantine replaces the familiar motif of sudden ecological or nuclear disaster with a less quantifiable but no less devastating apocalypse: ‘Not the final sudden death we all envisaged, but a slow sinking to nothing’ (I, p. ![]() 140–1) 1 can be used as the means to challenge a range of dominant cultural assumptions to do with gender, sexuality and subcultural values. Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu trilogy (1987–8) is a notable example of the way that the fictional depiction of ‘mankind’s funeral’ (I, pp. The opportunity afforded by science fiction and science fantasy to envisage post-apocalyptic cultures is an attractive one for any writer interested in imagining post-patriarchy. ![]()
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