Hunting Mother

Sage Walker

Judith's Flowers

Susan Palwick

A Gift to be Simple

Patricia A. McKillip

Island of the Ancestor

William F. Wu

One Day at Central Convenience Mall

Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Dead in the Water

Jack McDevitt

Raising Jenny

Janni Lee Simner

There Was an Old Woman

Robert Silverberg

Remailer

Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald

The Leopard's Garden

Constance Ash

Bouncing Babies

Kara Dalkey

Daddy's World

Walter Jon Williams

Of Bitches Born

Michael Armstrong

Dopples

Richard Parks

Award-winning, best-selling, and renowned authors bring you tales that will change the way you look at conception, birth, and parenting...

In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's "One Day at Central Convenience Mall," a race of programmed retail clerks makes shopping a breeze—until one decides to break the mold...

An obsolete religious group finds a high-tech way to replenish their flock in Patricia A. McKillip's "A Gift to Be Simple"...

Robert Silverberg's classic tale of genetic manipulation, "There Was an Old Woman," reveals what happens when thirty-one identical clones rebel against their determined destinies—and the woman who created them...

A dead boy discovers that virtual environments are a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there in "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams...

And ten more stories to take you to the cutting edge of reproductive technology—and beyond!