The story is set in a high-tech future where children are raised in creches, with the job of caring for them in some cases a low status, low wage job. The story is told from the point of view of a woman who chooses the job and is rejected by her friends on Luna and chooses to leave to raise children in a space habitat.
}, year = {2018}, journal = {Infinity’s End}, pages = {41-70}, month = {01/2018}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, isbn = {978-1781085752 9781597809887 9781781085769 978-1645240259. }, note = {Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 29-50, with an editor’s note on 29; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 141-65; and in her Alias Space and Other Stories. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 77-109 with “Notes about ‘Intervention’” on 110.
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