An amnesiac woman, Jane Waterleigh, awakens in an all-female future world with four castes (mothers, doctors, servants and workers), and she can only assume she’s in a dream or hallucination where she finds herself in an enormous body whom the doctors and servants call “Mother Orchis.”
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways.

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  1. “Consider Her Ways” by John Wyndham, in Sometime, Never (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Wyndham