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It argues that pregnancy should be read as a form with specific affordances (following Caroline Levine\u2019s work), and that such a position has implications for the wider field of medical humanities and specifically literature and medicine where texts are often grouped on the basis of illnesses, disabilities or medical conditions. The paper situates science fiction as a genre that has always had birth and creation at its heart and explores the importance of birth as a metaphor in science fiction, before turning to examine the depiction of birth (as metaphor and as itself) in\n                    <jats:italic>Reproduction. Reproduction<\/jats:italic>\n                    is a contemporary retelling of Frankenstein that uses a number of genre conventions in order to navigate its subject matter including science fiction, dystopia and autofiction. Through a reading of Hall\u2019s novel, this paper argues that the apocalyptic themes that characterise the contemporary landscape\u2014most centrally the climate crisis and the precarity of the future\u2014are provoking contemporary reflections on reproduction and its complications. The provisional nature of the future\u2014the unlikeliness that the future will take place, the inability to imagine a stable future\u2014creates a generic pressure on science fiction, a genre which has always relied on the fantasy of a future, particularly the future as a space for technological development. 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