What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I read a book published by Del Rey which had a cover with women on a longship dragging an astronaut out of an apollo style reentry capsule. The basic premise was that on this planet roles where reversed where the women did all the roles that men traditionally did in our world such as hunting, fighting, governing etc.

Up the Walls of the Worlds by Tiptree comes to mind. However, it involves male astronauts returning to earth after a cataclism that has killed off the remaining male population.

I think this was the plot of a hundred SciFi B-movies

It is but this was actually a very good book as it was not B-Movie-ish, it was about the cultural impact of the astronaut on the world.

When did you read it?

I read it in 1994 but I don't know how long it had been published by then.

Yonder Comes Other by Suzette Haden Elgin, pub. 1986 by DAW books.

Summary: Tracing a telepathic message of incredible power, Tri-Galactic Federation agent Coyote Jones stumbles on the Brightwater Kingdom of the planet Ozark, a realm ruled by a determined young woman named Responsible.

Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski? Not the dragging out of the capsule part, though.

It almost sounds like The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro but the cover doesn't match your description.

Possibly Master of None?

Hmmm...doesn't sound quite right. it was definitely a crash landing in the ocean and being dragged from the rescue pod by women in a longship.

James :-)

Here's a site with some movie listings on that subject.

http://www.allmovie.com/work/115767

YEARS later, but... The Tiptree reference above should be to Houston, Houston, Do You Read?. Doesn't quite fit the OP's description, but I immediately thought of it.

The Door into Ocean?

I don't see a Goodreads listing for the book.

A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski for the link. (Goodreads is picky; "The" instead of "A" means you can't find the book.)

Glory Season by David Brin? Doesn't seem quite what you're talking about, but I think it basically fits the description, though I didn't see any editions when I looked with the cover you described...so yeah, probably not, but it's all I could think of.

James, are any of these your book?

Maybe Herland by Charlotte Gilman Perkins?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

It's been a long time since I read it, so I'm not sure if your description matches the book...

Random wrote: "It almost sounds like The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro but the cover doesn't match your description."

Yeah, that's the one that leaps to my mind.

I sent a PM to James. He hasn't checked into the thread in quite a while, so if he doesn't respond in a reasonable length of time, I guess it's time to move this down to Abandoned

Sometimes different editions of books have different covers, so don't eliminate a title only because covers don't match.

I hope James comes back and lets us know what's up.

We will see. I want to give him at least 24 hours before moving the thread down to Abandoned. Then, even if he does come back, he can move it back up to Unsolved.

If he does come back he should check out Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson. Robert C