![]() ![]() He had no balance without it he perished’ (III, p. Like other female science fiction and science fantasy writers concerned with the implications of patriarchy, Constantine sees the causes of the ‘funeral’ residing in man’s own gender dominance: ‘Man burned himself out from within. ![]() Constantine replaces the familiar motif of sudden ecological or nuclear disaster with a less quantifiable but no less devastating apocalypse: ‘Not the final sudden death we all envisaged, but a slow sinking to nothing’ (I, p. 140–1) 1 can be used as the means to challenge a range of dominant cultural assumptions to do with gender, sexuality and subcultural values. Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu trilogy (1987–8) is a notable example of the way that the fictional depiction of ‘mankind’s funeral’ (I, pp. The opportunity afforded by science fiction and science fantasy to envisage post-apocalyptic cultures is an attractive one for any writer interested in imagining post-patriarchy. ![]()
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