Pregnancy in SF

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

• Octavia E. Butler

Metaphor as pregnancy

• Ursula K. Le Guin - "Intracom"

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

• Xena: Warrior Princess episode Them Bones, Them Bones

Superfast pregnancy

• Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess
• Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Cordelia Chase in Angel, twice ("Expecting" and Season 4)
• Gwen in Torchwood
• Rygel on Farscape
• Scully on The X-Files (Season 2 off-screen, possibly)

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)

See also

• Birth control
• Abortion

External links

• Impossible yet Inevitable: Unintended Pregnancy in FARSCAPE, DEEP SPACE NINE, STAR WARS, and THE X-FILES, by Arwen Spicer