Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur C. Clarke Award | 2012 | Winner |
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 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 →
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