Talk:Pregnancy in science fiction
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I don't think The White Plague belongs here. Pregnancy itself doesn't seem to be the point of the novel: there are no governments scrambling to find alternative methods of birth. 212.219.48.247 13:06, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Good point. The White Plague and numerous other novels are really more about infertility; and I would guess that from the popularity of "Children of Men" we'll have a lot of people looking for that. We should break it out into a separate section in this article and set up a redirect. If it develops enough it can become a separate page. --lquilter 15:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Earliest human/alien sex relationship
I think one needs to look towards H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore for examples far older than Philip José Farmer. The Dunwich Horror, a 1928 tale involves a pregnacy with a being from another dimension. No long term sexual relation is implied though the woman worshipped the being in question for what is implied to be her entire life. The Shadow over Innsmouth in 1936 involves the mixing of human and amphibious beings' lineages (sex and pregnacy obviously had to occur). No relation is specified. The amphibious beings are stated either in that story or elsewhere in the Lovecraft mythos as having come from the stars and hence would be genuinely "alien". C. L. Moore's short story Shambleau, written in 1933 involves sex (no pregnacy) between the protagonist, Northwest Smith and an female humanoid alien. On Mars, if I recall correctly. No long term relationship developes nor if I recall correctly, is there a danger of some sort of pregnacy. -- KarlHallowell 21:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
