SurrogaCity: Perfect Societies Require Perfect Humans

by L. Wade Powers

In the year 2042, megacities are ruled by women, the International Progressive Gynocracy (IPG), after a global pandemic sterilizes over 98 percent of the men. Selected fertile men reside in sequestered androdomes or male harems. Freemen groups living outside of SurrogaCity support reproductive freedom and resist the IPG with the help of artificial humans. Political conflicts within the IPG result in military confrontations. Artificial insemination and the prospect of parthenogenetic reproduction threaten the future existence of human males.

244 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2022

About the author

As a growing boy, I was fascinated with nature: snakes, insects, birds—anything that crawled, walked or flew. A PhD in zoology from the University of Texas in 1975 took me to New York to teach and also to work with the American Museum of Natural History. After forty years in higher education as a professor and dean, I retired in Oregon and began the journey down a different road of passion: literature. My first novel, The Home, is a memoir-fantasy about coming of age in a California foster institution. Other novels and short story collections have followed, spanning diverse genres: adult contemporary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This includes a few poems and a play.
Under my formal name, Lawrence W. Powers, I published technical articles in the clinical laboratory sciences, in marine biology and animal behavior, and on western culture and history, the latter primarily in the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library. I penned three articles for the online Oregon Encyclopedia, a critical essay on Steinbeck for the Steinbeck Review, and wrote a screenplay for a documentary about bird migration in Oregon (Fields of Splendor).
I currently live in Eastern Oregon with an incredibly beautiful and talented spouse and surrounded by numerous deer, racoons, quail, and lots of other wild things, including a few neighbors. My latest project is completing last book of the futuristic SurrogaCity trilogy, designated for release by late 2025. Please visit my website, lwadepowers.com, for more detail, to comment or ask questions, and an opportunity to receive a free short story or novel excerpt.