MsBatt
January 1st, 2010, 02:45 PM
I'd love any help anyone can give me on finding short stories dealing with this. I vaguely recall one titled something like "The Taming of Tiger McGrew" wherein a couple had to apply for a license and pass a test in order to have a kid---they had to take home and care for an android toddler that was programmed to drive them nuts.
But the one I REALLY want to find was published in the 80's, I think it Asimov's. In it, a disease goes around that renders all the women sterile. After about five years, a 'cure' is found---a woman who earnestly desires to become pregnant must eat NOTHING but this bland paste for at least 30 days, and her reproductive cycle will begin again. There were hints that the very scientists who came up with the 'cure' had invented the disease to begin with.
And of course I'd love names of any others that fall under this heading.
But the one I REALLY want to find was published in the 80's, I think it Asimov's. In it, a disease goes around that renders all the women sterile. After about five years, a 'cure' is found---a woman who earnestly desires to become pregnant must eat NOTHING but this bland paste for at least 30 days, and her reproductive cycle will begin again. There were hints that the very scientists who came up with the 'cure' had invented the disease to begin with.
And of course I'd love names of any others that fall under this heading.