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A review by leelulah
Women Invent the Future: A Science Fiction Anthology by Becky Chambers, Walidah Imarisha, Liz Williams, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Madeline Ashby, Cassandra Khaw, Anne Charnock, Molly Flatt
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Read for The Literary Life Podcast: 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge.
7. A Collection of Short Stories
The first two stories were good, but not much of it is..... well, not that groundbreaking. Becky Chambers' story was great as well.
I was thinking that Anne Charnock's story is potentially dangerous considering the mainstream "feminist" bent of the collection, given that she presents "bottle" babies, that is, babies developing in artificial wombs through normal, IVF or parthogenesis conceptions as victims of a selfish desire of parents who either wish to become single parents, have kids with no genetical trace of their own, such a desire is explicitly shown as eugenics and not altruistic at all. Sure, women are not used as "wombs" anymore (in reference to surrogacy).
Does that ease the feeling that this is business seeing kids as products and heavilly catering to consumer's needs, evading the responsibility when the background for adoption is too difficult to bear? Charnock's answer seems to be a resounding "no".
Read for The Literary Life Podcast: 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge.
7. A Collection of Short Stories
The first two stories were good, but not much of it is..... well, not that groundbreaking. Becky Chambers' story was great as well.
I was thinking that Anne Charnock's story is potentially dangerous considering the mainstream "feminist" bent of the collection, given that she presents "bottle" babies, that is, babies developing in artificial wombs through normal, IVF or parthogenesis conceptions as victims of a selfish desire of parents who either wish to become single parents, have kids with no genetical trace of their own, such a desire is explicitly shown as eugenics and not altruistic at all. Sure, women are not used as "wombs" anymore (in reference to surrogacy).
Does that ease the feeling that this is business seeing kids as products and heavilly catering to consumer's needs, evading the responsibility when the background for adoption is too difficult to bear? Charnock's answer seems to be a resounding "no".