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Late in the twenty-second century, 4,000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonize the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest’s influential 1984 novel, Daughters of a Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2000 novel, Daughters of an Amber Noon, told the story of the women left behind on Earth. Now she returns to Maternas at last. Fifty years have passed, and the first generation born on Maternas has reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from the vision of the founders of the Maternas colony.
Is Daughters of an Emerald Dusk appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This feminist science fiction explores generational conflict in a women-only colony, with likely mild romantic content and themes of social structures and evolving ideals. No graphic content anticipated.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language.
Who'll love this
Mature teens interested in feminist science fiction and stories about building new societies will appreciate this generational conflict narrative.