Eugene Fischer

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-new-mother-by-eugene-fischer-and-lizard-radi...

A near-future story in which parthenogenesis becomes possible. I read it when preparing Hugo nominations in 2016 and really liked it, and nominated it. Rereading it again eight years later, it remains a classic for me – the clash between state-imposed ideological control of fertility, and the demands of humanity and of human nature, are well delineated without thumping the reader over the head with the point. The fact that the story is set in near-contemporary Texas, where some of the worst bits of this dynamic have been playing out in real time since 2016, makes it even more effective now.… (mehr)

This was an amazing novella. Told from the point of a journalist reporting on a new medical phenomenon, a sexually-transmitted disease which renders men sterile and causes women to reproduce via partheogenesis, creating clone daughters so long as they are fertile. Fischer does an absolutely amazing job touching on the religious, political, social, and economic ramifications of such a change, as well as the deeply personal, through the eyes of the not-so-neutral POV reporter.

Absolutely blew me away.… (mehr)

available online here:
https://medium.com/@glorioushubris/the-new-mother-9df848da415b#.vr1bsts5g

really enjoyed this.
takes a simple 'what-if' and explores it from all angles. it's kind of clinical, and there is not much emotional development with the characters, but it doesn't suffer for this. really interesting.

and wonderfully liberal. This certainly won't end up on a sad puppies slate!… (mehr)