"Intervention"

Title"Intervention"
Year for Search2018
AuthorsRobson, Kelly(b. 1967)
Secondary AuthorsStrahan, Jonathan(b. 1964)
Secondary TitleInfinity’s End
Pagination41-70
Date Published2018
PublisherSolaris
Place PublishedOxford, Eng.
ISBN Number978-1781085752 9781597809887 9781781085769 978-1645240259.
KeywordsCanadian author, Lesbian author
Annotation

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. 

Additional Publishers

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

Holding Institutions

PSt, Public

Author Note

Canadian lesbian author

Full Text

2018 Robson, Kelly (b. 1967). “Intervention.” Infinity’s End. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 41-70. 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. PSt, Public

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. Canadian lesbian author.