Glory Season

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Glory Season is a science fiction novel by David Brin that explores a future human society structured around seasonal female reproduction and complex gender dynamics on a distant colony world.

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instanceOf science fiction novel
author David Brin NERFINISHED
awardNomination Hugo Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED
centralTheme evolutionary biology in human society
gender roles
power dynamics between sexes
reproductive strategies
social engineering
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresConcept economic competition between lineages
genetic diversity management
interaction with wider human civilization
matriarchal society
social consequences of cloning
exploresPoliticalStructure guild-based economy
lineage-based power blocs
featuresTechnology genetic engineering
interstellar travel
genre science fiction
hasCoverArtist Jim Burns NERFINISHED
hasFemaleDominatedSociety true
hasForm standalone novel
hasTargetAudience adult readers
hasTwinProtagonists true
isbn 978-0-553-09243-7
language English
mainCharacter Leie NERFINISHED
Maia NERFINISHED
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativePerspective third-person
originalPublicationYear 1993
pageCount approximately 700
partOfMovement 1990s feminist science fiction discourse
plotElement arrival of an offworld starship
clonal sisterhoods
conflict between clones and sexuals
rare sexual conception seasons
seasonal female reproduction
protagonistGender female
publisher Bantam Spectra NERFINISHED
setting distant human colony world
planet Stratos NERFINISHED
subgenre social science fiction
timePeriodInFiction far future

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