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* E. M. Forster. "The Machine Stops" | * E. M. Forster. "The Machine Stops" | ||
* [[Esther Friesner]], ''[[The Psalms of Herod]]''. (Sequel [[The Sword of Mary]] didn't deal so closely with that issue.) Elimination to deal with overpopulation. | * [[Esther Friesner]], ''[[The Psalms of Herod]]''. (Sequel [[The Sword of Mary]] didn't deal so closely with that issue.) Elimination to deal with overpopulation. | ||
* [[Sylvia Kelso]], ''[[Amberlight]]'' (e.g., "Why can't the Quarter expose boy-babies like the Houses do? They ''know'' too many men make trouble. Why can't they ever learn?" p.82) | |||
* [[Lee Killough]], ''[[A Voice Out of Ramah]]'' (1979) | * [[Lee Killough]], ''[[A Voice Out of Ramah]]'' (1979) | ||
* [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]''. Allegorical female prehumans expose boy babies as deformities. | * [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]''. Allegorical female prehumans expose boy babies as deformities. | ||
* [[Lois Lowry]], ''[[The Giver]]'' (1993). Elimination of "inferior" children. | * [[Lois Lowry]], ''[[The Giver]]'' (1993). Elimination of "inferior" children. | ||
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]], "[[Morality Meat]]" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) | * [[Raccoona Sheldon]], "[[Morality Meat]]" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) | ||
Revision as of 20:37, 22 March 2009
The murder of children, particularly newborn infants. Has been a social practice or custom in a number of societies, for instance, to deal with disabled children, twins, children of unwanted sex, overpopulation, etc. Periodically practiced to kill particular infants, e.g., potential rivals to a throne or infants prophesied to have some special destiny.
List of works featuring systematic infanticide
These works feature infanticide as a systematic social practice or custom.
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Barrayar and "The Mountains of Mourning". Elimination of disabled / "inferior" children.
- E. M. Forster. "The Machine Stops"
- Esther Friesner, The Psalms of Herod. (Sequel The Sword of Mary didn't deal so closely with that issue.) Elimination to deal with overpopulation.
- Sylvia Kelso, Amberlight (e.g., "Why can't the Quarter expose boy-babies like the Houses do? They know too many men make trouble. Why can't they ever learn?" p.82)
- Lee Killough, A Voice Out of Ramah (1979)
- Doris Lessing, The Cleft. Allegorical female prehumans expose boy babies as deformities.
- Lois Lowry, The Giver (1993). Elimination of "inferior" children.
- Raccoona Sheldon, "Morality Meat" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985)