In the future, fetuses are never born, they just live inside human hosts that they control. One of these fetal citizens decides she wants to experience her host giving birth. A solid science-fictional reversal on the whole abortion debate. ( )

This is a really creepy story. The premise is sometime in the future where people aren’t born. Through medical technology they remain fetuses, but experience life through nerve linkups with their arvies, or hosts, who have no legal existence and unstated sentience. They are human, of a sort. People get transplanted from one arvie to another in artificial wombs. It’s really hard to explain. Our main character decides she wants to do something that hasn’t been done before: give birth. Pretty good but very squicky. ( )