‘Authors need to be fearless about everything’

Christina Dalcher’s new novel, Femlandia, promises to be equally as chilling and gripping as her debut, Vox, as she tells Ella Dove

Femlandia is about a female-only community, set against the backdrop of a total economic collapse in the US. Where did the idea initially come from? Femlandia stemmed from reading a 1915 novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman called Herland, which is about a feminist utopia where women are self-sufficient and thriving. I found it interesting, because I can name a lot of dystopian novels, but we don’t see many utopian stories. Of course, reading it led me to think about the darker elements, particularly the idea of procreation. In Herland, it just kind of happens, almost like magic, so I decided to write a book where a female-only community procreates in a different way and really make it a horror story. Your books all feature near-future alternate realities and extreme versions of societal…

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