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LWE ([identity profile] lwe.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] marycatelli 2010-07-08 06:10 pm (UTC)

A few SF writers did have demographic collapse in their fiction, though usually for outside reasons, rather than the ones we're really seeing -- Philip K. Dick in The Gameplayers of Titan, for example, where there's been a precipitous drop in human fertility.

John Wyndham, The Chrysalids -- okay, it's a post-holocaust setting, but population is still dropping because of anti-mutant hysteria.

World Without Women, by Day Keene and Leonard Pruyn -- a plague wipes out virtually all women and sterilizes most of the survivors.

I'm sure there have been others. Possibly including Five to Twelve, by Edmund Cooper, but the world-building and genetics and other science in that are so vague and so screamingly nonsensical that it's hard to be sure.

I acknowledge, though, that they all required some outside agency, not just wealth and readily-available contraception.


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