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Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls

Tekijä: James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ

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"Souls," Joanna Russ, 4 stars
Somewhere in England (?) And in time, there is an abby, and an abbess. A Viking ship comes to steal their treasures and rape their nuns and make slaves of their folk.
The abbess is a wise nun, who never panicked when the Vikings came to ravage the Abby. She instead talks to the leader:
" '..you are a very clever man, torvald. I beg your pardon, Thorvald. I keep forgetting. But as to what men want from women, if you ask the young men, they would only wink and dig one another in the ribs, but that is only how they deceive themselves. That is only body calling to body. They themselves want something quite different and they want it so much that it frightens them. So they pretend it is anything and everything else: pleasure, comfort, a servant in the home. Do you know what it is that they want?'
'What?' Said Thorvald.
'The mother,' said Radegunde, 'as women do, too; we all want the mother...' "
I agree.

Inside of the Abbess, there is another being. All these years Radegunde has been playing the Abbess, the mother Superior. When Thorvald and his men attack the Abby, and break their promise not to hurt the inhabitants, it brings forth The hidden Radegunde:
" '...he said, 'out of my way then, old witch!'
She began to cry in sobs and gulps. She said, 'one is here but another will come! One is buried but another will rise! She will come, Thorvalvd!' and then in a low, quick voice, 'do not push open this last door. There is one behind it who is evil and I am afraid' --but one could see that he was angry and disappointed and would not listen. He struck her for a second time and again she fell, but with a desperate cry, covering her face with her hands...
...I could see the Abbess clearly -- at that time I did not wonder how this could be, with the Shadows from the Tallow dip half hiding everything in their drunken dance -- but I saw every line in her face as if it had been full day and in that light I saw Radegunde go away from us at last.
have you ever been at some great King's Court or some Earl's and heard the storytellers? There are those so skilled in the art that they not only speak for you what the person in the tale said and did, but they also make an action with their faces and bodies as if they truly were that man or woman, so that it is a great surprise to you when the tale ceases, for you almost believe that you have seen the tale happen in front of your very eyes and it is as if a real man or woman had suddenly ceased to exist, for you forget that all this was only a teller and a tale.
So it was with the woman who had been Radegunde. She did not change; it was still Radegunde's gray hairs and wrinkled face and old body in the peasant woman's brown dress, and yet at the same time it was a stranger who stepped out of the Abbess Radegunde's as out of a gown dropped to the floor. The stranger was without feeling, though Radegunde's tears still stood on her cheeks, and there was no kindness or joy in her... "

The little boy who is now an old man, and is relating the talr to us, the reader, was Radegunde's little Foster son. When Radegunde, the Abbess, changed into Radegunde, the spiritual Other, she went away, but not before she left a little fire of contentment inside of her foster son. She knew he would be suffering from the abandonment, so her last gift to him was a lasting contentment in his heart:
"But something troubles me even there, and will not be put to rest by the memory of the Abbess's touch on my hair. As I grow older it troubles me more and more. It was the very last thing she said to me, which I have not told you but will now. When she had given me the gift of contentment, I became so happy that I said, 'Abbess, you said you would be revenged on Thorvald, but all you did was change him into a good man. That is no revenge!'
What this saying did to her astonished me, for all the color went out of her face and left it gray. She looked suddenly old, like a death's head, even standing there among her own true folks with love and joy coming from them so strongly that I myself might feel it. She said 'I did not change him. I lent him my eyes; that is all.' Then she looked beyond me, as if at our village, at the Norsemen loading their boats with weeping slaves, at all the villages of Germany and England and France where the poor folks sweat from dawn to dark so that the great Lords may do battle with one another, at castles under siege with the starving folk within eating mice and rats and sometimes each other, at the women carried off or raped or beaten, at the mother's wailing for their little ones, and beyond this at the Great wide world itself with all its battles which I had used to think so grand, and the misery and greediness and fear and jealousy and hatred of folk one for the other, save -- perhaps - for a few small bands of savages, but they were so far from us that one could scarcely see them."



If you know that James Tiptree, Jr, is the pen name of Alice Sheldon, then you understand more about how the author could write a story like"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?". Her understanding of the male psyche, with its need to control and keep down women, makes reading stories like this one a salve for someone who's been hurt by a man trying to control their life, and come out the other side. Sadly, she suffered so much in her life, that she took her own life.

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", 5 stars
A wonderful story, my fantasy come true. An Earth where an epidemic came and made all the men sterile. When they died off, peace reigned.

A group of astronauts, from Earth circa the 1970s, have made a trip around the Sun and are headed back to earth. But something happened to them on the way back, they passed through an anomaly, or a prick of a black hole, it's never explained, but it jumps them into the future. They're in great denial at first, but eventually they have to accept what has happened, that they have jumped 300 plus years into the future.
On their communications line, they begin receiving messages from another spacecraft:
" 'judy?' Luna Central or whoever it is says. 'They don't answer. You want to try? But listen, we've been thinking. If these people really are from the past this must be very traumatic for them. They could be just realizing they'll never see their world again. Myda says these males had children and women they stayed with, they'll miss them terribly. This is exciting for us but it may seem awful to them. They could be too shocked to answer. They could be frightened, maybe they think we're aliens or hallucinations even. See?'
5 seconds later the nearby girl says, 'da, margo, we were into that too. Dinko. Ah, Sunbird? Major Davis of Sunbird, are you there? This is Judy Paris in the ship Gloria, we're only about a million kay from you, we see you on our screen.' She sounds young and excited. 'Luna Central has been trying to reach you, I think you're in trouble and we want to help. Please don't be frightened. We're people just like you. We think you're way off course if you want to reach Earth. Are you in trouble? Can we help? If your radio is out can you make any sort of signal? Do you know Old Morse? You'll be off our screen soon, we're truly worried about you. Please reply somehow if you possibly can, Sunbird, come in!'
Dave sits impassive. Bud glances at him, at the Port window, gazes stolidly at the speaker, his face blank. LoriMer has exhausted surprise, he wants only to reply to the voices. He can manage a rough signal by heterodyning the probe beam. But what then, with them both against him?"

Finally accepting the truth, the astronauts accept help from the women. They will have to travel close enough to be able to go outside of their spaceship and jetpack over to theirs. They have some time, while they travel towards the women's ship:
" 'Earth is making up a history for you, Sunbird,' the Margo voice says. 'We know you don't want to waste power asking, so we thought we'd send you a few main points right now.' She laughs. 'It's much harder than we thought, nobody here does history.'
.. .'Let's see, probably the most important is that there aren't as many people as you had, we're just over 2 million. There was a world epidemic not long after your time. It didn't kill people but it reduced the population. I mean there weren't any babies in most of the world. Ah, sterility. The country called Australia was affected least.' Bud holds up a finger.
'and North Canada wasn't too bad. So the survivors all got together in the South part of the American states where they could grow food and the best communications and factories were. Nobody lives in the rest of the world but we travel there sometimes. We have five main activities, was industries the word? Food, that's farming and fishing. Communications, transport, and space -- that's us. And the factories they need. We live a lot simpler than you did, I think. We see your things all over, we're very grateful to you. Oh, you'll be interested to know we use zeppelins just like you did, we have six big ones. And our fifth thing is the children. Babies. Does that help? I'm using a children's book we have here.'
The men had Frozen during this recital: LoriMer is holding a cooling bag of hash. Bud starts chewing again and chokes."

The men find out that the epidemic made men sterile.
" 'is it still dangerous, Doc?' Dave asks. 'What happens to us when we get back home?'
'they can't say. The birth rate is normal now, about 2% and rising. But the present population may be resistant. They never achieved a vaccine.'
'only one way to tell,' Bud says gravely. 'I volunteer.'
Dave merely glances at him. Extraordinary how he still commands. Not submission, for Pete's sake. A team.
The history also mentions the riots and fighting which swept the world when humanity found itself sterile. Cities bombed, and burned, massacres, panics, mass rapes and kidnapping of women, marauding armies of biologically desperate men, bloody cults. The crazies. But it is all so briefly told, so long ago. List of honored names. 'We must always be grateful to the brave people who held the Denver Medical Laboratories -' and then on to the drama of building up the helium supply for the dirigibles.
In three centuries it's all dust, he thinks. What do I know of the hideous 30 Years War that was three centuries back for me? Fighting devastated Europe for two generations. Not even names."

Lorimer tries to defend the mess that men had made of the world in the past:
"...'I'm a man. By God yes, I'm angry. I have a right. We gave you all this, we made it all. We built your precious civilization and your knowledge and comfort and medicines and your dreams. All of it. We protected you, we worked our balls off keeping you and your kids. It was hard. It was a fight, a bloody fight all the way. We're tough. We had to be, can't you understand? Can't you for Christ's sake understand that?'
another silence.
'We're trying,' Lady Blue says. "'We are trying, Dr Lorimer. Of course we enjoy your inventions and we do appreciate your evolutionary role. But you must see there's a problem. As I understand it, what you protected people from was largely other males, wasn't it? We've just had an extraordinary demonstration in that. [Bud tries to rape one of the Judys.] You have brought history to life for us.' Her wrinkled brown eyes smile at him; a small tea-colored matron holding an obsolete artifact.
'but the fighting is long over. It ended when you did, I believe. We can hardly turn you loose on earth, and we simply have no facilities for people with your emotional problems.'
'besides, we don't think you'd be very happy,' Judy Dakar adds earnestly.
'We could clone them,' says Connie. 'I know there's people who would volunteer to mother. The young ones might be all right, we could try.' "

The reader can figure out what happens to the antique spacemen. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
(Review for "Souls", not "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?")

Interesting short, far more interesting for the conversational judo before the supernatural/science-fictional elements come in.

Think Galactic discussion notes: http://positronchicago.blogspot.com/2016/05/think-galactic-souls.html ( )
  jakecasella | Sep 21, 2020 |
I only read "Houston, Houston Do You Read". I did not Read Souls, so will not be reviewing the story.

Its an odd story - quite thought provoking. It doesn't feel dated, maybe with the exception of space ship. Its a story of the a few men of the old ways being thrust into a new world, a world of clones, of women without men. The time travel is merely a convenience to get to this story. This is my first James Tiptree, Jr. story and it truly was a delight to read. ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Jun 19, 2010 |
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Souls: This is the ale of the Abbess Radegunde and what happened when the Norsemen came.
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