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Nae-Née - Birth Control: Infalllible, with Nanites and Convenience for All
Nae-Née confronts the major taboo of our time: the conflict between human overpopulation and the human desire to pass on one’s DNA, to pass on one’s culture, and to rest assured that the next generation will care for the previous one and continue all that matters to it.
Our planet’s ecosystem is being stressed past capacity to the brink of collapse due to biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, overdependence on fossil fuels, and the climate changes that drive all that.
In short, the human species is in dire trouble due to overpopulation – its own.
No one seems remotely inclined to sacrifice any comfort or control over their habits in order to save the environment and ultimately their own future existence, happiness or sense of purpose.
But there is a significant difference: nanite technology has advanced sufficiently to be of actual, practical use to physicians and scientists.
Nae-Née is a safe, reliable, user-friendly form of birth control. It is a microscopic device made of nanites – little robots. It contains a life-time supply of super-concentrated RU486, which the device releases whenever it detects a rise in hormones that indicates a fertilized embryo is about to implant itself.
All that the inventors – a husband-and-wife team – wanted was a convenient device that would prevent pregnancy every time without constantly pumping a woman’s body full of artificial hormones. Its name literally translates as “not born” and was chosen by Avril, the wife, to reflect her husband’s Scottish background and her own French ancestry. The story is told from Avril's point of view, a woman with Asperger's and a professor of women's medical history.
The world’s leaders have decided to make it the duty of every human being to participate in a bold new world policy, and they have drafted a treaty at the United Nations, and every nation has agreed to sign onto it. This is done on a date that doom-sayers have anticipated with predictions of various – and often unrelated – dire consequences: December 21, 2012. Under the terms of the treaty, all women must have a government-registered Nae-Née device.
Henceforth, every birth of any new human being must be licensed, and not everyone who wants a license to reproduce shall be granted one.
The novel is followed by a comprehensive and extensive bibliography that acts a case file in support of global warming and human overpopulation, presented as being taken from Avril’s research files…and the news articles in it are non-fiction, from well-respected sources.
Our planet’s ecosystem is being stressed past capacity to the brink of collapse due to biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, overdependence on fossil fuels, and the climate changes that drive all that.
In short, the human species is in dire trouble due to overpopulation – its own.
No one seems remotely inclined to sacrifice any comfort or control over their habits in order to save the environment and ultimately their own future existence, happiness or sense of purpose.
But there is a significant difference: nanite technology has advanced sufficiently to be of actual, practical use to physicians and scientists.
Nae-Née is a safe, reliable, user-friendly form of birth control. It is a microscopic device made of nanites – little robots. It contains a life-time supply of super-concentrated RU486, which the device releases whenever it detects a rise in hormones that indicates a fertilized embryo is about to implant itself.
All that the inventors – a husband-and-wife team – wanted was a convenient device that would prevent pregnancy every time without constantly pumping a woman’s body full of artificial hormones. Its name literally translates as “not born” and was chosen by Avril, the wife, to reflect her husband’s Scottish background and her own French ancestry. The story is told from Avril's point of view, a woman with Asperger's and a professor of women's medical history.
The world’s leaders have decided to make it the duty of every human being to participate in a bold new world policy, and they have drafted a treaty at the United Nations, and every nation has agreed to sign onto it. This is done on a date that doom-sayers have anticipated with predictions of various – and often unrelated – dire consequences: December 21, 2012. Under the terms of the treaty, all women must have a government-registered Nae-Née device.
Henceforth, every birth of any new human being must be licensed, and not everyone who wants a license to reproduce shall be granted one.
The novel is followed by a comprehensive and extensive bibliography that acts a case file in support of global warming and human overpopulation, presented as being taken from Avril’s research files…and the news articles in it are non-fiction, from well-respected sources.
384 pages, Paperback
First published September 6, 2012
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About the author
Stephanie C. Fox
18 books24 followersStephanie C. Fox, J.D. is a historian, author, editor, and publisher. She is a graduate of William Smith College and the University of Connecticut School of Law, and she lives in Connecticut.
She runs an editing service called QueenBeeEdit | QueenBeeBooks, which caters to politicians, scientists, students, authors, and others. The website can be found at https://www.queenbeeedit.com. She is a publisher, and her imprint is QueenBeeBooks.
Ms. Fox has written several books on a variety of topics, including the effects of human overpopulation on the environment, Asperger's, cats, and travel to Kuwait and Hawai`i.
Her areas of interest include - but are not limited to - women's history, biographies, women's studies, science fiction, human overpopulation, ecosystems collapse, environmental law, international relations, Asperger's, travel, and cats.
She runs an editing service called QueenBeeEdit | QueenBeeBooks, which caters to politicians, scientists, students, authors, and others. The website can be found at https://www.queenbeeedit.com. She is a publisher, and her imprint is QueenBeeBooks.
Ms. Fox has written several books on a variety of topics, including the effects of human overpopulation on the environment, Asperger's, cats, and travel to Kuwait and Hawai`i.
Her areas of interest include - but are not limited to - women's history, biographies, women's studies, science fiction, human overpopulation, ecosystems collapse, environmental law, international relations, Asperger's, travel, and cats.
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February 2, 2021
I loved this escape into a world where world powers come together to address human overpopulation. The writer has a strong, clear style of writing. Her array of characters and their reactions to the actions taken are what one might expect if such actions were really taken. Of course, the world in this story still has to deal with the horrors of climate change. This is the first of a 3 book series and I'm excited to escape into the 2nd book and see what happens next.
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