HALDANE, Charlotte (Franken)
- HALDANE, Charlotte (Franken)
(1894-1969)
UK writer, married to J.B.S. HALDANE and sister-in-law of Naomi MITCHISON. Her sf novel, Man's World (1926), set in a 21st-century society which divides women into whores and sainted breeders (Hyperlink to:
WOMEN AS PORTRAYED IN SCIENCE FICTION), takes an ambivalent attitude towards the eugenic thinking (
GENETIC ENGINEERING) responsible for such a state, but eventually seems to suggest that the social cost of improving the human stock by fiat has been too high. The racism delineated - Whites have risen to new biological heights while Blacks are systematically poisoned - is also ambivalent in the telling. Two fantasies are Melusine, or Devil Take Her! (1936), about the survival of witches in Christian Europe, and The Shadow of a Dream (1952).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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