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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Last Birth is a dystopian science fiction novel about a world that has nearly perfected itself out of existence.
In the late twenty-first century, natural birth has become rare, expensive, and socially suspect. Eternalis Corporation offers something easier: Continuation, a technological substitute for children, family, grief, aging, and death. No pain. No risk. No uncertainty. No loss.
Nancy Katherine once helped build the arguments that made this world possible. She believed in autonomy, safety, and freedom from biological suffering. But when she becomes pregnant in a society where almost no one gives birth anymore, she begins to see the hidden machinery beneath the comfort. The clinic is too gentle. The city is too calm. The husband who knows her perfectly may not love her at all. And the unborn child inside her may be one of the last real human lives the system cannot optimize away.
As Eternalis pressures Nancy to archive, convert, and preserve what it calls the essential parts of her child, she is forced to confront a terrifying question: what if humanity did not end through war, plague, or collapse, but through convenience?
Dark, philosophical, and emotionally charged, The Last Birth explores artificial intelligence, reproductive control, technological immortality, simulated love, and the cost of choosing reality in a world addicted to comfort.
For readers of literary dystopian fiction, speculative science fiction, and stories about the human soul under technological pressure.
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