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greeniezona's review
5.0
I'd heard of this because it was published by Mother's Milk Books — run by Dr. Teika Bellamy, one of the handful of people who really welcomed me into the micro press community. I'd been curious about this book for a while, but international shipping can be steep. One day Teika reached out to see if I would be interested in doing a swap, and I jumped at the chance to get a copy of this.
I read this during a readathon, so basically in one sitting, and this book was GREAT for that. A sci-fi thriller about near-future reproductive technology — this was EXACTLY the kind of thing I was yearning for when I attended to ConFusion panel on pregnancy in sci-fi and fantasy. The basic premise: the doctor spearheading a research project growing a human fetus in an artificial uterus has kidnapped the newborn baby and is on the run. Why, and what danger are she and the baby in? There are some standard tropes of the genre — the romantic entanglement that may or may not be who he appears, the ominous corporation, the self-serving news media, the flashbacks slowly revealing each character's motivations... but it was all well done and I loved every page of it. There are complicated explorations of the many types of motherhood that let women explore their feelings without reducing them to biological imperatives or evolutionary psychology bullshit.
Definitely a book I will be recommending to lots of folks.
I read this during a readathon, so basically in one sitting, and this book was GREAT for that. A sci-fi thriller about near-future reproductive technology — this was EXACTLY the kind of thing I was yearning for when I attended to ConFusion panel on pregnancy in sci-fi and fantasy. The basic premise: the doctor spearheading a research project growing a human fetus in an artificial uterus has kidnapped the newborn baby and is on the run. Why, and what danger are she and the baby in? There are some standard tropes of the genre — the romantic entanglement that may or may not be who he appears, the ominous corporation, the self-serving news media, the flashbacks slowly revealing each character's motivations... but it was all well done and I loved every page of it. There are complicated explorations of the many types of motherhood that let women explore their feelings without reducing them to biological imperatives or evolutionary psychology bullshit.
Definitely a book I will be recommending to lots of folks.
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