>Thre's a typically striking short story by James Tiptree Jr. about the
>social attitudes consequent on haploid reproduction in human beings. >One
of Tiptree's distinctions is that she wrote about reproduction as a
>biological function, rather than (conventionally) as a sociosexual one.
The story is 'Your Haploid Heart': as I recall, there were alternate
generations of gendered and neuter humanoids. The latter were extremely
hostile to their begetters/descendants.
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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