[heartwood]

Joanna Russ and James Tiptree Jr both wrote of world without men.

[Spunky]

This is probably not it but interesting. Shape up men or else.

Envisioning a World Without Men

[nuconvert]

http://www.zazzle.com/world_without_men_60s_lesbian_pulp_novel_stationery-229684628024265701

could it be this?

[afraidfortherepublic]

I know I’m being a smart alec, but why? Who wants a world without men?

[melissa_in_ga]

Could it possibly be “Mr. Smith” by Pat Frank? A nuclear holocaust leaves Mr. Smith as the only available fertile man. It’s out of print, though.

[mamelukesabre]

I have no idea but it sounds interesting. I can’t wait for someone to figure it out for you.

I would like to piggyback a search of my own onto your thread. Years ago I read a science fiction novel about the extinction of the human race in the universe. The only parts I remember are that humans became very adept at space travel and traveled to all the inhabited worlds. eventually humans became disliked by the other intelligent species out of jealousy for their more advanced technology and for their desire to exert their will over the other planets.

I remember one part about how humans dominated the galactic olympics due to technology, bio engineering, and other enhancements of the human body. Without these enhancements, humans wouldn’t stand a chance against the other species in terms of athletic ability.

In the end, as with all empires, the human empire began to lose its advantage. The other planets gradually began to irradicate humans from their solar systems. They formed united galactic governments and worked together to drive out the humans from all places in the universe. The book ended with the last band of humans(like 4 women, 1 man, and 5 or 10 children I think) in the universe being hunted down on a distant planet. They fortified themselves in a cave with a doomsday device and told their pursuers to let them be or the entire planet would be destroyed. The creatures of this planet were so determined to exterminate the last of the humans that they sacrificed their own lives and the entire planet to achieve it. The humans detonated the doomsday device and the planet was destroyed.

That was the end of the book.

I’ve been trying to find this book for, I think, 25 years. I have no idea the title or the author.

[21twelve]

Oops - I thought you wrote navel.

Sorry - can’t help. Does sound interesting.

[RoosterRedux]

Just off the top of my head, "When It Changed" (short story by Joanna Russ), Virgin Planet, Ammonite.

Also check here...http://www.feministsf.org/bibs/

[RoosterRedux]

Another link...http://www.feministsf.org/bibs/womenonlyworld.html

[denydenydeny]

Sounds much like Alice Sheldon's Houston, Houston, Do You Read" but not quite.

[denydenydeny]

There was a lot of this male-genocide SF in the seventies and eighties. I recall Marion Zimmer Bradley (herself a lifelong out lesbian) expressing horror and disgust with the “world without men=utopia” trend.

[x]

Well, there's this:

World Without Men: The Forgotten Novel of Totalitarian Lesbiocracy by Charles Eric Maine:

__________________

It's not what you're looking for, but you might like P.D. James's The Children of Men. It's about a world without children -- mass infertility.

Alfonso Cuaron directed the film and highjacked it to include illegal immigration themes that aren't in the book and that James probably wouldn't have approved of (though legally she did "approve" when she sold the movie rights).

[earglasses]

Reminds me of John Wyndham’s “Consider Her Ways.” a fine novel by an excellent writer.

[Grut]

For balance, there's The White Plague by Frank Herbert - he wipes out all the women.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I consulted with the local Sci Fi Oracle and she has replied;

“The original was World Without Men by Eric Charles Maine published by Ace in the 1950s or early 60s. It was republishd with the title Alph by DelRay in 1973 or so.”

(My thanks to L. T. for the info!)

[FrogMom]

Is it “The Children of Men,” P. D. James?