Michael Ash wrote:
> Right, but I believe it was at least speculated that the same process
must
> be happening on Earth as well. I don't recall if it was ever confirmed.
> That's why I mentioned Earth, though; the story happens on Tau Ceti but
> the Earth of that setting would end up looking like Children of Men
except
> with ape-children running around.
Ah, got it. Yes, all we're told is that it's happening on Earth too,
but I don't think any contem****aneous details.
As I recall in the story there's some unrest on Tau Ceti, but it has
such a small population (it's a brand new colony, after all), the
attitude is more of somber depression rather than total chaos. On a
heavily populated, industrialized world, presumably like the Earth at
the time, things may well be different and there would be widespread
problems, as in _Children of Men_.
> Well, it's not *necessarily* an exception. The process could have
started
> reversing itself, and the young woman at the focus of the story may just
> have been the first of many. It would have to be a pretty slow process
for
> nobody else to have noticed it, though. And of course it makes the
entire
> story pointless, since everybody else will start having babies
regardless.
> Oops.
Right, so I doubt that's it :-). Also, in the movie, she's rather far
along in her pregnancy, so it's hard to believe that she's the first of
many unless she's way ahead of the curve. But, like you say, that kind
of makes the story pointless, and still leaves everything open as to why
it happened and then why it suddenly stopped.
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