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so-soShort story, part of an Amazon collection I downloaded a while ago. About a dystopian future where only the rich and famous get to have kids. Interesting premise but I wasn‘t wowed by it.
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so-soShort story, part of an Amazon collection I downloaded a while ago. About a dystopian future where only the rich and famous get to have kids. Interesting premise but I wasn‘t wowed by it.
pickPick. Bizarre and disturbing scenario where government, in its mandate to reduce global population, allots powerful incentives to those who do not have children, so that few can afford to be parents. Women wear a device like a headset to prevent conception. But Miriam and a male coworker start to wonder…
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pickReminded me of The Handmaid‘s Tale. A future when reproductive rights are limited. In this case, women are discouraged from having babies. They are given birth control when they reach puberty and if they have children they are denied healthcare, housing, jobs, etc. I found it a bit disturbing but also fascinating, given all that‘s happening in the world now.
“I thought about siblings: the strangeness of two people having the same parents. Was a sister more like a friend or a rival?”
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pickAnother short story from the Out of Line collection. This is set in the future, when humankind has decided to pause reproducing in order to get to a more "optimum" population to battle the effects of climate change. Technology has progressed to create state-of-the-art birth control and government incentives make it almost impossible to afford to have a child. But Miriam has a strange new curiosity about motherhood.
