Talk:Reproduction and pregnancy in speculative fiction/Examples


 * Over-population
 * Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye (1974) (alien race that has to continuously breed and the consequences of its resulting overpopulation crisis)


 * Infertility
 * Brian Aldiss: Greybeard (1964) (universal infertility persists as a future, dystopian Britain ages and society fragments, finally some women become fertile again)
 * The Last Man on Earth (1924) (silent film in which all males are killed or rendered infertile, but for one)
 * It's Great to Be Alive (1933) (musical comedy remake of The Last Man on Earth)
 * Pat Frank: Mr. Adam (1946) (all but one man rendered infertile by a nuclear mishap)
 * Karel Čapek: R.U.R. (1921) (universal infertility, invented the word robot, hint at sex between robots)
 * Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed (1962)
 * Nancy Kress: Maximum Light (1998) (widespread infertility due to environmental pollution, hybrid human/chimpanzees used as surrogate children)
 * P.D. James: The Children of Men (1992) (universal male infertility, starting in 1995)
 * Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985) (widespread infertility in a theocratic United States)


 * Evolution and breeding
 * Frank Herbert: Dune series (1965) (Bene Gesserit sisterhood has intense breeding program lasting thousands of years)
 * Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayaran series (The Cetagandans are involved in a long-term human breeding project)
 * Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio (1999) (ultra-rapid evolution of homo sapiens whilst still in utero due to a retrovirus)


 * technology
 * Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932) (all children produced in artificial wombs and engineered for specific social niches)
 * Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) (fetuses raised externally in breeders rather than in the female womb)
 * Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity (2002) -- uterine replicators play a major part in this story again
 * Lois McMaster Bujold: Barrayar (1991) (artificial wombs as helpful for fetuses endangered by exposure to toxins, and as vulnerable to kidnapping or sabotage by enemies of the parents)
 * Lois McMaster Bujold: Ethan of Athos (1986) (all-male society, reproduction via artificial wombs)
 * David Weber: The Honor Harrington series - Military and professional women often "tube" (externally gestate) their offspring, including the titular character.
 * Gattaca, 1997 film in which reprogenetics and their impact on society feature heavily.


 * Hybrids


 * John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) (human women simultaneously impregnated with identical alien children) and the short story Consider Her Ways
 * Naomi Mitchison: Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) (the protagonist, at one point, is pregnant with an alien)
 * Species (1995) SF film about an alien-human hybrid's attempt to become pregnant