Priestess Who Rebelled

Bond, Nelson S. "The Priestess Who Rebelled." Amazing Oct. 1939. Rpt. When Women Rule. Sam Moscowitz, ed. New York: Walker, 1972.

Discussed by Joanna Russ in "Amor Vincit Foeminam," SFS 7 (March 1980): 5, who finds the "primitive matriarchy" of the future society of the story "modeled on bees and termites (a common model for matriarchies in SF)." See for half of what Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich have called "The Ovion/Cylon Alliance": the association of insects with machines, sometimes in a metaphorically mechanized society.