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The New Mother
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April 12, 2016
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April 30, 2016
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2015 Nebula Award Nominees
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Group novella discussion April 2016
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Tani
Apr 27, 2016 rated it really liked it
The premise of this story was extremely intriguing to me. Basically, there is a new disease, possibly an STD on the scene, called GDS. This disease affects women, although men can be carriers. The disease changes the eggs of these women so that they no longer need sperm in order to reproduce. In fact, these women will become pregnant spontaneously, asexually, basically giving birth to clones of themselves.

The story follows a reporter as she writes a story on this disease, getting opinions on po
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Ash
Apr 10, 2017 marked it as winners-acc-tipt-pkd-locus