Praxis

a lifetime in the labor corps-or colonize a new world. for jamie and josé, not much of a choice. but praxis wouldn't be easy. to survive there, you had to depend on each other. and that requires honesty that few possess. praxis is a bold experiment in society building, a monosexual colony, with no promises of survival and no return trip. but it's got potential. you just have to build a new civilization-on the other side of the universe."a wonderfully realized and self-contained story about sexual ambivalence (amongst many other things) that nevertheless leaves you hoping gerrold's next sf tale picks up where this one leaves off."- nigel suckling, hugo-winning author"praxis is one of the very few books i've read where the premise of the society/world/universe is so interesting that it engages regardless of the plot. and the plot is a novel and unusual possible human situation, driven by the constraints of what may well come to pass, where traditional space opera is dragged screaming and kicking into a future with brand-new conventions. what praxis is really (as is all the best sf), is the intro for a never-ending epic. but the evocative set-up is what i look for in speculative literature-and this book serves as a magnificent springboard for the reader's imagination."- f. j. bergmann, sfpa grand master & editor"the thought-provoking story of two partners set to embark on a one-way trip to a planet that's all men - a literary exploration of human relationships in a brutal society seeking to colonize the universe."- dr. daniel pomarède, co-discoverer of the laniakea supercluster, the south pole wall & the dipole repeller"master of the imagination david gerrold does it again, praxis is a story of letting go, communication, and acceptance. for men to find a new way they must first redefine manhood, break from an oppressive society, and together learn what it means to become a new type of human."- jean-paul l. garnier, editor of star*line & simultaneous times