Story! Safe Surrender (and part of a new Earthsea story)

Safe Surrender by Meg Elison. A story about dealing with being Other, and uses of technology. The story mentions an assassination, but otherwise there's no violence it. Oddly emotionally gentle, while still treating the subject of adoption and birth parents seriously. This is what a safe world might feel like, if contact with aliens managed to change us.

The laws are so old that they were written with fully human children in mind. Before first contact, two humans might make a fully Terran baby and still abandon it, because they didn’t have enough money or because one of their ancient tribal honor codes forbid them from breeding. It still happens, but nobody talks about it. Humans like to forget what they used to be. Now, safe surrender sites are known as places where hemis get dumped. Hemis like me.

Also! The beginning of a new (last) Earthsea story written last year. Firelight by Ursula K. Le Guin. They have the rest of it access-locked, sadly.


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