March Books 2) Intrusion, by Ken MacLeod

[nwhyte]

As he whizzed along Camden’s back streets and canal banks and along the edge of Regent’s Park he sometimes glimpsed the whole scene as a vast, broken woodland, the forest of London. It was like when as a lad he’d seen from the hilltop how the landscape of Lewis wasn’t moor and field and bog with outcrops of rock, but a gnarly mass of rock with a

Comments

[inulro]

While I agree that the most interesting parts to this are incidental, as a woman I found the premise of women's rights being curtailed by the "but you could be pregnant and think of the baby" brigade all too plausible. Makes me thankful I'm galloping towards being too old for all that anyway.

[nwhyte]

Sure, it's all extrapolation intended as an Awful Warning; I couldn't really swallow the exemptions for religious believers but not for non-believing conscientious objectors, though, nor the idea that while pregnant women were barred from drinking and smoking it would be still OK for the police to torture them!