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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 - both the film and the novel by Ira Levin
- Xena, Warrior Princess episode, "Gabrielle's Hope"
- Angel episodes
- "Expecting" (1x12) - Cordelia Chase & other young single women wake up heavily pregnant
- "Salvage", "Release", "Orpheus", "Players", "Inside Out" - Cordelia with another demonic pregnancy
- X-Files:
- episode "Terms of Endearment" (demonic pregnancy with a twist)
- X-Files: repeated themes with Scully and other women of alien pregnancy
- Point Pleasant - Christina Nickson's mother was forcibly impregnated by Satan; it is alluded to in several episodes, and she describes it one of the later episodes of the series.
- Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman
- John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos (film versions: Village of the Damned)
- Spiral, sequel to Ring. If a woman watches the videotape while ovulating, she becomes pregnant with a Sadako clone, gives birth within a week, and then dies.
- Blood Ties (TV series) episode 1x11 "Post Partum" (2007)
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)
- "The Same Old Story", Fringe episode 1x02 (2008) (which also had a "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" sort of theme)
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)