The Males evaluate: Gender dystopia in a world the place males have vanished

What would the world be like if males abruptly disappeared? That’s the premise of Sandra Newman’s new sci-fi novel that asks how simply we are able to change historical past, says Sally Adee

By Sally Adee

WE ARE hallucinating on a regular basis, in keeping with neuroscience analysis. Our brains continually tease understandable patterns out of 1,000,000 sensory inputs – from buzzing bees to approaching animals. This isn’t actuality, however a great prediction of what actuality needs to be, knowledgeable by previous expertise. Whereas it’s an environment friendly means for the mind to generate the sensation of consciousness, it additionally means we’re like passengers dealing with backwards on …