The Female Factory

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction
Cover of the book The Female Factory by Lisa L Hannett, Angela Slatter, Twelfth Planet Press
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Author: Lisa L Hannett, Angela Slatter ISBN: 9781922101167
Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press Publication: October 29, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Lisa L Hannett, Angela Slatter
ISBN: 9781922101167
Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press
Publication: October 29, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

In The Female Factory, procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford.

Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. A quirk of genetics allows lucky surrogates to carry multiple eggs, to control when they are fertilised, and by whom—but corporations market and sell the offspring. The souls of lost embryos are never wasted; captured in software, they give electronics their voice. Spirits born into the wrong bodies can brave the charged waters of a hidden billabong, and change their fate. Industrious orphans learn to manipulate scientific advances, creating mothers of their own choosing.

From Australia’s near-future all the way back in time to its convict past, these stories spin and sever the ties between parents and children.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Amal El-Mohtar
  • Vox
  • Baggage
  • All the Other Revivals
  • The Female Factory
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In The Female Factory, procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford.

Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. A quirk of genetics allows lucky surrogates to carry multiple eggs, to control when they are fertilised, and by whom—but corporations market and sell the offspring. The souls of lost embryos are never wasted; captured in software, they give electronics their voice. Spirits born into the wrong bodies can brave the charged waters of a hidden billabong, and change their fate. Industrious orphans learn to manipulate scientific advances, creating mothers of their own choosing.

From Australia’s near-future all the way back in time to its convict past, these stories spin and sever the ties between parents and children.

Table of Contents

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