It is an update of the character Sumuru created by pulp novelist Sax Rohmer.
Cut off from the rest of the universe, men have become beasts of labor -- and women rule.
Arriving on the planet Antares, Adam Wade and Jake Carpenter come with a mission and a secret.
When the small spaceship crashes, the two find the planet run by women ruled by Queen Sumuru, and the men slaving in primitive mines, used occasionally for procreation purposes.
Ultimately Taxan and her followers are defeated and Adam, Jake, Sumuru and her followers including the freed male slaves set off for an anticipated new home amongst the stars; escaping Antarres, which is due to explode from its internal pressures.