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Children of Arable [Paperback]

David Belden (Author)
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January 6, 1987
After 20 years of pleasant, egalitarian, genderless civilization on the thousand plus planets of the Collectivity where babies are made only in baby labs, nine people decide to make their own babies in their own bodies. Eight can. One can not. So the concepts "woman" and "man" regain flesh. Only "woman" can. And so men had to start controlling women all over again, didn't they?

The birthing circle would have remained a cozy elite fad but for Martin. Born on a green world, transferred to a metalbound city planet, she wanted to bring love and freedom to the whole galaxy. Jomo, the humble soy processor, who loved her, saw her astonishing transformation into a revolutionary. This is his story about her, told to their grandchildren.

Martin is catapulted from her home farm into a galactic web of holie ghosts, pirates, buttoned-down followers of the Space Code, anarchists, sexless wraiths whose telekinetic powers spin the spaceships across the galaxy, spherical aliens and MAN, the virtual guru who keeps everyone under control.

Gendering is a trilogy of stories about gender and God, revolution and religion.

First published in 1987, Children of Arable is fully revised for this new edition as the first of the Gendering series.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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A well-crafted, thoughtful, sometimes witty novel about the battle of the sexes and a good deal else. -- The Oregonian

Belden is a Man To Watch... -- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, OtheRealms --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

David Belden is an Englishman living on the edge of the Catskills. He has worked as a religious volunteer in India and Ethiopia, a carpenter in England and America for twenty years, a college teacher and currently a corporate business writer. He has a doctorate in sociology from Oxford University, an ex-wife, a house which appears to be covered in fish scales, a severe reading habit and a tendency to absent-mindedness. He lived 30 of his first 32 years in communal houses, first religious then socialist/feminist, not to mention boarding school and college dorms, but forsook the communal life for a twenty-year year nuclear love affair with Debi Clifford, met by change on holiday in San Francisco, with whom he is raising a son, Rowan, and intending to celebrate a golden wedding and new siding on the house, whichever comes first. His dream is to do nothing but write books that are true (or truish), teach interseing people, make curious but entertaining objects, travel with Debi and Rowan and do good. But at the moment these activities have to be squeezed into about every other Thursday and the odd weekend. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Roc (January 6, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451146603
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451146601
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,383,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A revolution in understanding and empathy, May 16, 2002
David Belden's Children Of Arable is a powerful, 346-page, highly recommended science fiction epic about an alien civilization, the Collectivity, that has abolished both family and gender - until a rogue young person decides to bring birth back to the world. The evolution and transformation of society brings about a revolution in understanding and empathy in this fascinating saga that makes the reader rethink his or her understanding of gender roles.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Children of Arable, September 7, 2000
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This is a truly wonderful book. IT is a wonderful combination of romance and sci-fi. I would recommend it to anyone...not small children though
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