Infertility and sterility in SF

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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"

Individual Infertility

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