He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.

Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year…

'Teddy - I suppose Mummy and Daddy are real, aren't they?' Teddy said, 'You ask such silly questions, David. Nobody knows what 'real' really means. Let's go in…

'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!' 'You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.' Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her…

The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, deriv…

...no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there …

You should be glad that the government has provided for chain and bangles at their own expense, why are you feeling so bad about it?