[BRIEF NOTE] More Queerness in SF

[rfmcdonald]

Last night's viewing of Ghost in the Shell has made me think more about the potential queerness of reproduction in science fiction. It's something that I first touched on last July in relation to Arthur C. Clarke and just a couple of days ago with Ryman and (perhaps?) Butler. Last summer I'd written about what I thought was a serious problem with science fiction's ability to cover relationships in general, but I think that I'm at least partly wrong. Without giving away spoilers for last night's excellent anime, the question of problematized technologically-mediated reproduction in the late modern age seems to be something that science fiction can be good at doing. Perhaps this is a byproduct of a weakness of the genre, perhaps it's a strength, likely it's a bit of both.