In Q the concept freaked me out even more so because I fear that something like this could actually happen……because it did before.Ĭhristina Dalcher does not write fairytales. When writing my review of VOX in 2018 I said it ‘is a book quite unlike any I have read before because the concept, while appearing far-fetched, is NOT completely beyond the realms of possibility’. Q is published with HQ Stories and is described as an ‘explosive new dystopian thriller’ Q is the second novel from the Sunday Times Bestselling author of VOX, Christina Dalcher. ‘I wonder what we’ll do with the people who aren’t necessary anymore?’
The incendiary epilogue compensates for the relatively superficial worldbuilding. Exploring speculative responses and remedies to toxic masculinity, objectification, and systemic patriarchal oppression, this wildly provocative glimpse into the future is sure to spark lively discussions about humankind’s past, present, and future.
Emma embraces the thriving settlement and its progressive culture, but Miranda finds troubling moral failings in the colony’s pioneering way of life. With nowhere else to go-and facing starvation or worse if attacked by roving gangs of thugs-Miranda reluctantly decides to take herself and Emma to Femlandia, a self-sufficient “womyn’s commune” her estranged mother founded decades earlier. Against a backdrop of failing infrastructure, looted grocery stores, and widespread death, Miranda Reynolds-whose husband recently abandoned her and her 16-year-old daughter, Emma-is homeless and hungry. In the near-future, America has fallen into chaos after the collapse of its economy. Dalcher ( Vox) puts a delightfully dark dystopian twist on Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 feminist utopian novel.
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