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Not of Woman Born
by
Constance Ash ,
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, Walter Jon Williams, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald (Goodreads Author), Kara Dalkey, Michael Armstrong
,
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An original anthology of stories dealing with modern science's impact on our ideas of conception, birth, and parenting from some of the most imaginative and prophetic authors in science fiction. Stories range from the humorous to the horrific, the fascinating to the far-fetched, with our humanity surviving in the face of overwhelming technology as the common theme of each....more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 1999
by Roc
(first published January 1st 1999)
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Jun 03, 2008
Angel
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
science fiction readers
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I picked this edition only because it has the cover art. I have it in hardback (same cover), but for some reason GoodReads' record for the HB lacks the art. Anyways, I read this back in 2000. A very intriguing anthology. Here is what I wrote in my journal back then:
>>The book is a collection of short stories dealing with alternative forms of reproduction such as cloning or genetic engineering. The stories were well written overall and presented a myriad of possibilities. The story "Daddy'...more
>>The book is a collection of short stories dealing with alternative forms of reproduction such as cloning or genetic engineering. The stories were well written overall and presented a myriad of possibilities. The story "Daddy'...more
Fourteen stories, set in fourteen different futures where we're no longer sexually reproducing. (There's still sex; it's just that the reproduction happens in other ways.) Clones and genetic engineering are most common. Other, more interesting variations involve androids, life in software, and an implausible but entertaining scenario that requires a ménage à trois involving three different genders.
Interestingly, nearly all of the stories are fairly introspective. The tension in the stories comes...more
Interestingly, nearly all of the stories are fairly introspective. The tension in the stories comes...more
As fodder for my research on alternate reproduction in sf, it will no doubt be helpful. However, I found the writing pretty inconsistent. Contains:
-*Mother Hunting by Sage Walker
-Judith's Flowers by Susan Palwick
-A Gift to be Simple by Patricia A. McKillip
-Island of the Ancestor by William F. Wu
-One Day at Central Convenience Mall by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
-Dead in the Water by Jack McDevitt
-Raising Jenny by Janni Lee Simner
-There Was an Old Woman by Robert Silverberg
-Remailer by Debra Doyle and Jam...more
-*Mother Hunting by Sage Walker
-Judith's Flowers by Susan Palwick
-A Gift to be Simple by Patricia A. McKillip
-Island of the Ancestor by William F. Wu
-One Day at Central Convenience Mall by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
-Dead in the Water by Jack McDevitt
-Raising Jenny by Janni Lee Simner
-There Was an Old Woman by Robert Silverberg
-Remailer by Debra Doyle and Jam...more
While I'm between books, re-reading some of my old SF. This one is from 1999, a themed collection of short stories re alternative ways of producing children. Some are kind of ordinary, cloning and vat children, and some are quite imaginative. Some good writing, definitely good entertainment reading. I'd give it 3.5 stars if that were an option.
"Introduction" by Constance Ash;
"Hunting Mother" by Sage Walker;
"Judith's Flowers" by Susan Palwick;
"A Gift to be Simple" by Patricia A. McKillip;
"Island of the Ancestor" by William F. Wu;
"One Day at Central Convenience Mall" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman;
"Dead in the Water" Jack McDevitt;
"Raising Jenny" by Janni Lee Simner;
"There Was an Old Woman" by Robert Silverberg;
"Remailer" by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald;
"The Leopard's Garden" by Constance Ash;
"Bouncing Babies" by Kara Dalkey;
"...more
"Hunting Mother" by Sage Walker;
"Judith's Flowers" by Susan Palwick;
"A Gift to be Simple" by Patricia A. McKillip;
"Island of the Ancestor" by William F. Wu;
"One Day at Central Convenience Mall" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman;
"Dead in the Water" Jack McDevitt;
"Raising Jenny" by Janni Lee Simner;
"There Was an Old Woman" by Robert Silverberg;
"Remailer" by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald;
"The Leopard's Garden" by Constance Ash;
"Bouncing Babies" by Kara Dalkey;
"...more
Picked this one up at a used library book sale for about a quarter. It was wuite an interesting read. Although some of the stories were better than others, they often made you think about how life could be created or duplicated in the future and the social implications of various forms of cloning and other types of artificial and virtural identities.
This was fun, even though some of the stories were old, or I had read them, I was really happy to see a Michael Armstrong short, hadn't read it, loved it, all about dog teams and cloning. Don't know how I missed it but it was very good!
Dec 01, 2010
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
science-fiction,
anthologies-and-collections
I think this anthology could justifiably be called underappreciated. It has several excellent stories, including the haunting "Daddy's World."
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