Talk:Reproduction and pregnancy in speculative fiction

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: infertility

message: 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)
thread_title:  Earliest human/alien sex relationship 

message: Keep in mind that, when you find strong references for here, many of them are likely going to be applicable to the OR-laden and unreferenced Sex in science fiction and various other members of :Category:Science fiction themes. MrZaiustalk 14:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Side note

message: I just stumbled across this page! There's a great paper on Alien Resurrection by A. Samuel Kimball: Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future: Terminator 2, The Matrix and Alien Resurrection from Camera Obscura, 17.2 (2002) 69-107. I'll start looking up more papers and posting them here. Phyesalis (talk) 07:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: I diasgree with the removal of Frankenstein, Dr Moreau, and others.  They may need to have better categories created for them, but I think it provides value to readers to group on one page all the various significant fictional attempts to imagine other ways of reproducing ourselves as individuals or as a species. How can these be usefully reintegrated? BrainyBabe (talk) 14:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But they were placed seemingly at random (that's why i removed - Frankenstein has no male pregancy in. Its not even reproduction, the Monster wasn't human). Trying to group ALL the significant attempts should be done in a list article, not here. (although maybe this article should be renamed - it is getting very listy).Yobmod (talk) 21:31, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent removal of items