Project Gutenberg 2010-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 64 Brown, Rosel George 1926 1967 Varga, Mel Step IV Step 4 Step Four Reading ease score: 92.6 (5th grade). Very easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Step IV" by Rosel George Brown is a science fiction short story originally published in Amazing Stories in the early 1960s. This narrative explores themes of power, gender dynamics, and the complexities of human (and alien) interactions through a suspenseful and poignant lens. The story revolves around Juba, a woman from a society of parthenogenetic women, who encounters a Terran spaceman and grapples with her feelings towards him while navigating the rules and expectations of her society. In the story, Juba initially approaches her interaction with the spaceman as a seduction, intending to manipulate him for the safety of her people. However, her perception of him shifts as she engages in conversation, reflecting on the nature of men and their inherent violence according to her mother's teachings. As the narrative unfolds, Juba battles her burgeoning feelings for the man, confronting notions of pride, power, and her identity. Ultimately, the encounter spirals into tragedy, as betrayal leads to a devastating conclusion, wherein Juba's pride and the weight of her choices culminate in her heartbreaking sacrifice, leaving the implications of her decision lingering in the air. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Man-woman relationships -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 53940 53939 2024-10-13T07:59:33.266269 2023-09-13T12:12:05.823071 text/html text/html 50522 2010-01-07T06:18:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 82037 2010-01-07T06:18:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 149354 2024-10-13T07:59:37.256244 application/epub+zip 148237 2024-10-13T07:59:34.973256 application/epub+zip 83073 2024-10-13T07:59:33.836246 application/epub+zip 204971 2024-10-13T07:59:38.971243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 198042 2024-10-13T07:59:36.627230 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 111030 2022-09-14T08:56:20.314825 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 47729 47626 2024-10-13T07:59:32.973271 2023-09-13T12:12:05.624062 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 47636 2010-01-07T06:18:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18301 2010-01-07T06:18:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20606 2024-10-13T07:59:39.100223 application/rdf+xml 9214 2024-10-13T07:59:34.391245 image/jpeg 2577 2024-10-13T07:59:34.102270 image/jpeg 144673 2024-10-13T07:59:33.278294 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia