Infertility and sterility in SF
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)
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