Theme & Character Lists: Breeding Programs

see also
the broader topic of Controlled Reproduction | fascism (concentration & breeding camps)

Specific human breeding programs ... designed to create or wipe out particular traits ... or perhaps for unknown reasons. Breeding can be in labs, too.

• Butler, Octavia. Wild Seed - one man and his breeding program of "special" people ...
  --. Xenogenesis trilogy, including Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
• Disch, Thomas. (short story in Transformations ... )
• Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
• May, Julian. The Many-Colored Land (1981) (in another time human women are kept as breeders for an alien almost human species)
• McKay, Claudia. Promise of the Rose Stone (New Victoria Publishers, 1986) ISBN 0-934678-09-X - a Federation rules Earth, with the assistance of a perhaps-enslaved mysterious satellite-sized being. Our protagonist Isa, a mountain warrior, travels to a Federation village, and then is sent to the satellite where women are bred for unknown purposes ...
• Parks, Severna. Speaking Dreams (Firebrand, 1992)
  --. The Hand of Prophecy
  In both, slave-traders breed humans for certain desireable physical attributes.
• Payes, Rachel Cosgrove. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
• Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. Evil patriarchal fundamentalists breed "angel" babies - small blonde children - for their disposable sex toys.
• Tepper, Sheri. The Gates to Women's Country
• Wilhelm, Kate. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) (first they bred clones; then they began breeding non-clones)