“The first time I read Memoirs of a Spacewoman, I felt relief so strongly that it registered as a kind of digestive ache. Here was a woman who had thought about birth in terms I instinctively understood but rarely recognized in the world around me.”

—Jenni Quilter on reproductive possibility in Naomi Mitchison’s speculative fiction

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