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==Pregnancy as metaphor== | ==Pregnancy as metaphor== | ||
* [[Octavia Butler|Octavia E. Butler]] | * [[Octavia Butler|Octavia E. Butler]] | ||
==Metaphor as pregnancy== | |||
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] "Intracom" | |||
==Alternative pregnancy== | ==Alternative pregnancy== | ||
Revision as of 21:17, 3 May 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
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
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)