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These works may explore the ideology behind a breeding program or the consequences thereof. Some take as an assumption certain eugenic or essentialist notions, but others do not. Some works simply use breeding programs as a signal of [[fascism]] or lack of reproductive control, or to play with anxiety about biotechnology. | These works may explore the ideology behind a breeding program or the consequences thereof. Some take as an assumption certain eugenic or essentialist notions, but others do not. Some works simply use breeding programs as a signal of [[fascism]] or lack of reproductive control, or to play with anxiety about biotechnology. | ||
See also [[List of bioengineered species and races]] | See also | ||
* [[List of bioengineered species and races]] | |||
* [[Controlled reproduction in SF]] | |||
* [[http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Feminists_confront_fascism_and_the_state#Concentration_Camps:_Breeding Breeding camps in fascism]] | |||
==List of works== | ==List of works== | ||
Revision as of 08:27, 15 May 2007
This list includes works featuring breeding programs. These may be classical eugenics style programs, aimed at wiping out "undesirable" traits, enhancing other traits, or they may be features of an effort to eliminate disease or adapt to particular environments.
These works may explore the ideology behind a breeding program or the consequences thereof. Some take as an assumption certain eugenic or essentialist notions, but others do not. Some works simply use breeding programs as a signal of fascism or lack of reproductive control, or to play with anxiety about biotechnology.
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List of works
- Octavia Butler. Wild Seed - one man and his breeding program of "special" people ...
- Octavia Butler. Xenogenesis trilogy, including Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
- Thomas Disch. (short story in Transformations ... )
- Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
- May, Julian. The Many-Colored Land (1981) (in another time human women are kept as breeders for an alien almost human species)
- McKay, Claudia. Promise of the Rose Stone (New Victoria Publishers, 1986) ISBN 0-934678-09-X - a Federation rules Earth, with the assistance of a perhaps-enslaved mysterious satellite-sized being. Our protagonist Isa, a mountain warrior, travels to a Federation village, and then is sent to the satellite where women are bred for unknown purposes ...
- Parks, Severna. Speaking Dreams (Firebrand, 1992)
--. The Hand of Prophecy In both, slave-traders breed humans for certain desireable physical attributes.
- Payes, Rachel Cosgrove. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
- Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. Evil patriarchal fundamentalists breed "angel" babies - small blonde children - for their disposable sex toys.
- Sheri S. Tepper. The Gates to Women's Country
- Kate Wilhelm. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) (first they bred clones; then they began breeding non-clones)