Triad

'''Finch, Sheila. Triad.''' New York: Bantam, 1986.

A "popular feminist version of possible futures" in which human society "is moving toward biological and political stasis under the direction of a centralized computer which makes all important decisions for the women. However, we discover as the story develops that the computer actually hopes to help humans develop beyond their biological heritage and evolve into a machine[-]based species, like the contemporary ruling race of the galaxy" (Orth 8 [see under Reference and Literary Criticism]).[]