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Original Title:	Califia's Daughters
ISBN:	055358667X (ISBN13: 9780553586671)
Edition Language:	English

Califia's Daughters

Leigh Richards

Paperback | Pages: 489 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 755 Users | 106 Reviews

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Title	:	Califia's Daughters
Author	:	Leigh Richards
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 489 pages
Published	:	August 3rd 2004 by Spectra (first published January 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

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Set in the near future and inspired by the captivating myth of the warrior queen Califia, this brilliantly inventive novel tells the story of a small, peaceful community of women tucked away in a world gone mad.

Only the elders of the Valley remember life the way it used to be, when people traveled in automobiles and bought food others had grown. When the ratio of male to female was nearly the same. Before the bombs fell, and a deadly virus claimed the world's men.

Now, civilization's few surviving males are guarded by women warriors like Dian, the Valley's chief protector, as fierce and loyal as the guard dogs she trains. When an unexpected convoy of strangers rides into her village, it is
Dian who meets them, ready to do battle.

To her surprise, the visitors come in peace and bear a priceless gift, whose arrival is greeted with as much suspicion as delight. And indeed, the strangers want something in return, a request that could change the future of
the Valley into one of hope--or utter desolation.

It is up to Dian to discover their motive, in a journey that will cost her far more than she ever imagined, a journey from which she may never return.

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Ratings: 3.89 From 755 Users | 106 Reviews

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Leigh Richards is also known as Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell books, so when I saw this on the shelf I decided to give it a shot. I read it on the plane home from Vegas, and it held my attention throughout the flight. Set in the "near future", after the devastating near-destruction of world (or at least, the known world to the characters involved), the world-building - with a female majority - is good and the characters are generally interesting, but as I finished it this morning I

This book is set in post-apocalyptic California in a society where a deadly virus kills a significant portion of the male population of each generation. Men have become valuable assets to be cosseted and protected by women like Dian, who is responsible for providing security for everyone in her small farming community. I admit that I am predisposed to like this book, as much for the strong relationship the main character has with her dogs as for the portrayal of women-run societies. And as a

I enjoyed this more than i usually enjoy post-apocalyptic feminist fiction. Excellent character development, strong plotting, good ideas. I like the world she has created, and would love to read more in it. My only real problem with the book was the idea that monogamy would mean anything at all in a world where the gender ratios were 10:1. I suspect the author was unable to question her own monogamist bias, or didn't realize it needed questioning. That was the only note of jarring unreality. I

This book is quite different from any other Laurie King I've read. It reminds me of the dystopian future described in the MaddAddam trilogy, but more pro-female. It's an interesting story, if not quite what I expected. It started slow and seemed to speed throughout the last quarter of the book, but overall I enjoyed the characters and the plot.

Wow. Just. Wow. I really loved this book, and I feel so sad that there isn't a sequel (although it works well on its own, I would have loved to have some "further adventures of...") Part dystopia, part agrarian idyll, post-pandemic California has descended into isolated frontier communities with limited technology. Males has been decimated by the disease and now have protected (and commodity) status due to their rarity. Dian and her village are alarmed when travellers from a far-flung outpost in

Of all the things this book might have been to me, in the end it was a story about dogs. The relationship Dian and her dogs share created an axis around which the rest of this novel spun. Al dog lovers should give the book a go.

This was written by me under the indicated pseudonym.