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* X-Files: repeated themes with [[Scully]] and other women of alien pregnancy | * X-Files: repeated themes with [[Scully]] and other women of alien pregnancy | ||
* [[Naomi Mitchison]]'s ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]'' | * [[Naomi Mitchison]]'s ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]'' | ||
* "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant | |||
==Pregnancy anxieties== | |||
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] episode [[Them Bones, Them Bones]] | |||
==Other suggestions== | ==Other suggestions== | ||
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* [[Geoff Ryman]] - ''[[Air (novel)|Air]]'', one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries. | * [[Geoff Ryman]] - ''[[Air (novel)|Air]]'', one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries. | ||
* John Wyndham - ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' (1957) and reprinted as ''The Village of the Damned'' (1961) | * John Wyndham - ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' (1957) and reprinted as ''The Village of the Damned'' (1961) | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 19:14, 21 March 2007
SF featuring pregnancy.
Failed contraceptives, pregnancy and abortion issues
- Pamela Dean - Tam Lin (1991), contraceptive failure, mention of abortion issues, and pregnancy as a plot point.
Forced pregnancy
- D.F. Jones - Implosion (1967), worldwide plague of infertility leads the men in government in England to establish forced breeding camps.
Pregnancy as metaphor
Alternative pregnancy
- Lois McMaster Bujold - the entire Vorkosigan universe but see especially Ethan of Athos and Barrayar.
- Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
Demonic and alien pregnancy
- Rosemary's Baby
- Xena episode, "Gabrielle's Hope"
- Angel episodes "Expecting" and "Salvage", "Release", "Orpheus", "Players", "Inside Out"
- X-Files episode "Terms of Endearment" (demonic pregnancy)
- X-Files: repeated themes with Scully and other women of alien pregnancy
- Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman
- "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant
Pregnancy anxieties
Other suggestions
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Motherlines
- Hiromi Goto - The Kappa Child (2001)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn - "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
- Geoff Ryman - Air, one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries.
- John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) and reprinted as The Village of the Damned (1961)