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==Failed contraceptives, pregnancy and abortion issues== | ==Failed contraceptives, pregnancy and abortion issues== | ||
* [[Pamela Dean]] - ''[[Tam Lin]]'' (1991), contraceptive failure, mention of abortion issues, and pregnancy as a plot point. | * [[Pamela Dean]] - ''[[Tam Lin]]'' (1991), contraceptive failure, mention of abortion issues, and pregnancy as a plot point. | ||
* [[Vonda N. McIntyre]] - ''[[Dreamsnake]]'' (1978), one section covers contraception by biofeedback and how one young man who is unable to learn the technique is ostracized | |||
==Forced pregnancy== | ==Forced pregnancy== | ||
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==Metaphor as pregnancy== | ==Metaphor as pregnancy== | ||
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] - "Intracom" | * [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] - "Intracom," in which a pregnant woman's interior conversations are converted into the interactions of a spaceship crew | ||
==Alternative pregnancy== | ==Alternative pregnancy== | ||
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==Other suggestions== | ==Other suggestions== | ||
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] - [[Motherlines]] | * [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] - [[Motherlines]], in which members of an all-female society can impregnate themselves by "mating" with their horses (the methodology is never fully explained) | ||
* Hiromi Goto - ''The Kappa Child'' (2001) | * [[Hiromi Goto'' - ''[[The Kappa Child]]'' (2001) | ||
* [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]] - "The Man Who Was Pregnant" | * [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]] - "The Man Who Was Pregnant" | ||
* [[Geoff Ryman]] - ''[[Air (novel)|Air]]'', one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries. | * [[Geoff Ryman]] - ''[[Air (novel)|Air]]'', one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries. | ||
* [[Will Shetterly]] and [[Emma Bull]], eds. The Liavek shared-world series, in which the length of a woman's labor determines the amount of magical power the child has. | |||
* 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) | ||
Revision as of 14:09, 11 April 2008
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.
- Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake (1978), one section covers contraception by biofeedback and how one young man who is unable to learn the technique is ostracized
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
Metaphor as pregnancy
- Ursula K. Le Guin - "Intracom," in which a pregnant woman's interior conversations are converted into the interactions of a spaceship crew
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
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, in which members of an all-female society can impregnate themselves by "mating" with their horses (the methodology is never fully explained)
- [[Hiromi Goto - The Kappa Child (2001)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn - "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
- Geoff Ryman - Air, one of the weirdest damn pregnancies & deliveries.
- Will Shetterly and Emma Bull, eds. The Liavek shared-world series, in which the length of a woman's labor determines the amount of magical power the child has.
- John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) and reprinted as The Village of the Damned (1961)