The Coming of the Amazons

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. John Bogardus begins his strange tale as a warning about feminism, science, and the fate of civilization. After a provocative lunch with his biologist friend Dr. Sachaloff, a teasing exchange with Kitty Dalgleesh, and a night listening to the militant arguments of the women in his own house, he is drawn into an experiment in suspended animation that sends him hurtling into the distant future. He awakens 250 years later in 2181, revived in a dazzling floating hospital above New York and attended by tall women in Grecian robes. As Acquilla guides him through a world of airborne travel, controlled weather, glass-and-light homes, and automated luxury, Bogardus discovers that the old city has been buried and rebuilt across layers of conquest and social upheaval. More shocking still is the society itself: men have been disfranchised for over a century, marriage and the family have been abolished, children are raised in state nurseries, and birth is managed through compulsory eugenics and population control. Caught between awe and horror, Bogardus confronts an Amazonian civilization ruled by knowledge, caste, and the University, where law, inheritance, and male authority have vanished.