Re: SF Story/Novel ID: Angels, Menses and Faces (oh my!)

Not *The Gate to Women's Country* - and it does ring some faint bells, but
I can't pin it down.

charley

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Colleen Cahill <[email protected]> wrote:

> This really makes me think of The Gate to Women's Country, although it has
> been a while since I read that and the fit does not seem perfect.  My
> memory
> had the protagonist going on a trip where she is raped by the man who was
> suppose to be in love with her.  After which she and the man are both
> attacked and captured by Holylanders, a very patriarchal group.
>
>   I agree with you that Tepper is a likely choice, or perhaps someone
> inspired by Tepper.
>
> Colleen
> Colleen Cahill
> SF-LIT moderator
> [email protected]
>
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 14:03:55 +0000, David Wright <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >We're not having much luck: Can you help us solve find this science
> fiction
> novel for a patron? Here's their description:
> >
> >"I'm trying to figure out a book a read many years ago. I *think* it's by
> >Sherri Tepper, but I can't figure out what it is. Here's the story as I
> >remember it: Young women when they get their menses (see? So Sherri
> >Tepper)are sent to spend the night in, like, an open air hut or
> something? And
> >then frightening creatures, who are like ravening angels? Sort of? Come
> >and A) rape them and B) eat their faces. (Tepper. Pretty sure.) But their
> >supposed to be ancestors or something? Like, when people die they become
> >these things? And then the first child of most women (due to that whole
> >rape thing) are these creatures? And maybe everyone lives in a glass
> >bubble? Because I think there's a scene at the end when the
> >ancestor/angels are attacking or something? Anyway- any idea what that
> book
> is? Thanks so
> >much!"
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
> >David Wright
> >http://shelftalk.spl.org
> >
> >                  "Que Scay-Je?"
>



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Charley
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