The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories by Paul Di Filippo

Author:Paul Di Filippo [DI FILIPPO, PAUL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781473206502
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2015-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

II

Sandra Birkenstock hated men.

Her father had been an abusive bully. Her brother had raped her. Her first husband had been an alcoholic. The president was a warmongering, and-abortion fanatic.

These seemed good and sufficient reasons to Sandra for her to engineer the extermination of the entire male gender.

So she did.

In her capacity as a biohacker for Merck Pharmaceuticals, Sandra fashioned a lethal virus that attacked only humans with Y chromosomes. It was gruesomely fatal within days of being contracted, and so cunningly wrought that all men would be dead before its mysteries could be unraveled.

Rather selfishly, Sandra had no desire to live through the short-term chaos that was sure to follow her purge. On the other hand, she wanted to see the sane and healthy all-womyn society that was sure to follow the Interregnum.

Her work provided a solution.

After unleashing the indestructible airborne anti-male virus, Sandra injected herself with stasis-inducing nanodevices. These tiny machines would put her into suspended animation for a century, at the end of which period little bioclocks would shut the machines down and she would awake.

The injection was made while Sandra was shivering in a cave high in the Swiss Alps. Here her body would be safe from the social chaos to come. She had taken the precaution of leaving a sealed envelope with the National Organization of Women. The envelope contained the story of what she had done, and how to find her body.

As Sandra’s cells shut down, snow drifted over her …

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