The Misconceiver

by Lucy Ferriss

Book Overview

This fresh release of an epochal novel from the late 1990s unlocks the dystopic world of the United States circa 2026, when Roe v. Wade has been overturned and abortion finally banned in all 50 states. Following in the steps of her dead sister and mother, narrator Phoebe Masters works in the computer industry by day and at night performs illegal "misconceptions" in her basement, restoring to desperate women some measure of control over their own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BCNSWDKR
• ISBN13: 9798218042714
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Wandering Aengus Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Prescient and Terrifying

Lucy Ferriss looked not terribly far ahead (this book was published in 1997) to a world where privacy is a thing of the past. Some of the things she sees, and which have come to pass, are a world that runs on plastic cards, print journalism and other paper-based reading material no longer exists, and women are second-class citizens. Included in the nightmare is the fact that discrimination against homosexuals is not only tolerated but encouraged. Sadly, Miss Ferriss saw the future all too accurately in a few respects. This is a frighteningly prescient novel wherein the lead character, a woman who provides abortions (or "misconceptions") finds a web of conspiracy surrounding her in an Orwellian world. This is a book that raises difficult questions, and it is a troubling, but important, read. While set in the future, it returns us to a time when a woman's only function was to marry and breed. Given that American pharmacists are now allowed (on a supposedly limited basis) to refuse to do their jobs on "moral" grounds, and that there is an idiot spouting off about how condoms cause the spread of AIDS, I found it difficult to read this book without nodding in recognition. Lucy Ferriss writes about the future, and it is a scary place to be.