Pregnancy in science fiction Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Numerous science fiction, utopian and dystopian novels revolve around sexual reproduction, pregnancy and infertility. Some examples:
- Brian Aldiss: Greybeard (1964) (universal infertility)
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985) (widespread infertility in a theocratic United States)
- David Brin: Glory Season (1994) (mixture of parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction in a mainly female society)
- Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed (1962)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland (1915) (parthenogenesis in an all-female society)
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932) (all children produced in artificial wombs and engineered for specific social niches)
- P.D. James: The Children of Men (1992) (universal infertility)
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye (1975) (alien race that has to continuously breed and the consequences of its resulting overpopulation crisis)
- Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) (fetuses raised externally in breeders rather than in the female womb)
- John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) (human women simultaneously impregnated with identical alien children)
- Naomi Mitchison: Solution Three (1975) (uptopia via mandatory homosexuality, reproduction via surrogate mothers carrying cloned children)
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