Author: megelison

In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that … world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy.Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she…

A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different … sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and…

A Philip K. Dick Award winner with over 5,200 five-star Goodreads ratings: After most of the world’s women and children die, one midwife battles a terrifying new regime. “Gripping… Should particularly appeal to readers of earlier feminist dystopias such as The Handmaid’s Tale” (Publishers Weekly).