Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

What is Houston, Houston, Do You Read? about?

A solar flare throws the all-male crew of a circumsolar mission three hundred years forward, into rescue by the Gloria — a ship of cheerful, competent women from an Earth where a plague long ago ended both men and, the rescued astronauts slowly realise, the entire social order built around them. Tiptree lets her three men — the decent scientist, the alpha commander, the godly major — reveal under disinhibiting drugs exactly what each would do with a world of women, and lets the women, who have been listening politely, draw the obvious conclusion. Clinical, courteous and devastating.