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* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] - the entire Vorkosigan universe but see especially ''[[Ethan of Athos]]'' and ''[[Barrayar]]''.
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] - the entire Vorkosigan universe but see especially ''[[Ethan of Athos]]'' and ''[[Barrayar]]''.
* [[Marge Piercy]] - ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''
* [[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 (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]]''


==Other suggestions==
==Other suggestions==

Revision as of 10:00, 17 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

Demonic and alien pregnancy

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)
  • "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant

See also