Expressing a pessimistic view of gender relations, the novel is set in a world where women, portrayed as emotional and illogical, dominate men, the creative, rational force within humanity who represent the builders of civilization.

They spend their time building and rebuilding tall, complex, suggestively phallic[citation needed] towers that the gigantic women destroy as quickly as these structures are erected.

[full citation needed] A readily available summary of the relatively rare novel's plot is provided in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

It featured the voices of John Rowe as Gulliver, Jane Wenham as the Queen of Capillaria, as well as Norma Ronald, Garard Green and others.

However, the novels have little in common; Voyage to Faremido is an example of utopian literature, while the main focus of Capillaria is the dystopian coexistence of men and women.