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Piecework
| Author: | David Brin |
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Pulphouse Publishing, 1991 Interzone, 1990 |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In "Piecework," the most sophisticated "engineering" process on Earth is pregnancy among mammals -- especially among humans. There is already talk of using goats and cattle to produce industrial products instead of milk, and possibly bringing to term organic machines, programmed in eggs to develop in the womb. What if this happens... and continues? Might poor women earn a living by renting out their wombs for industrial "piecework" production of high-end organic machinery?
This story originally appeared in Interzone, #33 January-February 1990. The story can also be found in the anthology The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992), edited by Tom Shippey. It is included in the collection Otherness (1994).
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