The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Name: The Testament of Jessie Lamb
ISBN: 9781846972263

by Jane Rogers

Arthur C. · 2012 · Winner

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Sandstone PressJune 9, 2011Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9781846972263

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Arthur C. Clarke Award	2012	Winner	“Jane Rogers's quiet, devastating feminist SF won for its exploration of a teenage girl's agency in the face of a plague that kills all pregnant women—a novel about sacrifice, complicity, and the limits of love.”

About This Book

A plague called Maternal Death Syndrome kills all pregnant women. Teenager Jessie Lamb chooses to become a martyr—allowing herself to be impregnated with a pre-MDS embryo—in this quiet, devastating SF novel about sacrifice and agency.

About the Author

Jane RogersGB

Jane Rogers is a British author of literary fiction and television drama. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2012), a novel about a teenage girl caught up in a catastrophic plague affecting pregnant women, who decides to become a martyr in an experimental vaccine programme. Read more →