I found this rather self indulgent and not a little silly, to be frank. There was no cleverness; and indeed I didn't really feel that there was anything offered in this story we haven't seen done better in film and TV in terms of a matriarchal society.
Hmm. I loved News From Gardenia, and I really wanted to like this but I just couldn't. The last book explored a possible future in which we as a species had a much better grasp of. environmental issues, and as Robert Llewellyn is something of an expert in this area it worked really well. This book is set in a female dominated future and tries to explore gender issues, but he really isn't an expert here and it shows. The book started with a rather insightful introduction and then oddly completely failed to live up to it with the story itself eventually basically descending into "not all men!" in novel form. And unlike Gardenia the world itself didn't have enough new ideas to be interesting, the characters were flat and the writing seemed rather stilted and awkward. Disappointing.
