![]() ![]() The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story writers. Industrious orphans learn to manipulate scientific advances, creating mothers of their own choosing.įrom Australia’s near-future all the way back in time to its convict past, these stories spin and sever the ties between parents and children. Spirits born into the wrong bodies can brave the charged waters of a hidden billabong, and change their fate. ![]() The souls of lost embryos are never wasted captured in software, they give electronics their voice. ![]() A quirk of genetics allows lucky surrogates to carry multiple eggs, to control when they are fertilised, and by whom-but corporations market and sell the offspring. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. Children are a commodity few women can afford. In The Female Factory, procreation is big business. ![]()
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