Infertility and sterility in SF

Infertility and sterility show up in gender-oriented SF as a theme not infrequently. Several aspects may show up:

• Use of widespread infertility or sterility to show impact on reproductive rights and women's rights more generally
• Infertility or sterility to create gender disparities or show shifts in the relative values of men or women, or other classes
• Infertility or sterility to showcase different effects on the genders, e.g., men turning to violence, women turning to pathology, or vice versa ...

List of works featuring widespread Infertility

Infertility as a serious problem; or the implications of infertility.

• Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (creeping infertility caused by pollution; in a Christian Right fundamentalist theocracy, Gilead, fertile women are given to government officials as "handmaids" to bear children)
• David Gerrold. "How We Saved the Human Race," in With a Finger in My I (1972) (bio-engineered infertility plague)
• P.D. James. The Children of Men (infertility caused worldwide by unknown causes; people fetishize the last generation)
• D.F. Jones Implosion (1967) (plague of infertility causes UK government to take totalitarian steps and set up female breeding camps)
• Nancy Kress. Maximum Light (global infertility caused by endocrine disrupters; people turn to pets, baby-stealing)
• Stephen Leigh. Dark Water's Embrace (1998) (on another planet, most children are born not-quite-right; odd mutations may turn out to be the key to solving fertility & mutation problems)
• Edward Llewellyn. The Bright Companion (1980) (in the last century, women became infertile because of a birth control; society collapsed; now fertile women are rare)
• Stephanie Smith (pollution has caused people's babies are increasingly mutated, weird - maybe a new species?)
• Kate Wilhelm. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (tide of infertility, probably caused by pollution - people turn to cloning)
• "A.I." (the movie) (ecological disasters have reduced population and fertility)
• "Children of Men" (2006 film)
• "Hell Comes to Frogtown" (1987; dir. Donald G. Jackson; few fertile humans exist in post-apocalyptic world which is ruled by amphibians; three sequels: "Return to Frogtown" (1993); "Toad Warrior" (1996); "Max Hell Frog" (2002) (campy silly film)

List of works featuring individual infertility

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Others

• Brian Aldiss, Greybeard
• Richard Cowpoer, The Twilight of Briareus
• M. John Harrison, The Committed Men
• Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat
• Charles Platt, The City Dwellers
• Bob Shaw, One Million Tomorrows