Things in books that annoy you

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That's not an app.

It is an Application of technology. It's just a different technology than you were thinking of! But it IS an app! Sometimes, you just got to dance to whatever music is playing!

[hildea]

Thanks for that information, sjfan! I knew a bit about contreception in the 1800s (mostly from romance novels ), but I had no idea it was so widespread. It's easy to believe the past was more uniform than it was.

I agree with you, 4691mls, the plot you describe seems implausible, though -- someone deciding to get rid of her virginity as if it was an unfashionable bonnet.

Originally Posted by ekbell

And if the author has set up a science fiction society based on people having vastly extended lives and competely reliable birth control then unplanned pregnancies with no prior indication that the characters were being careless shouldn't be part of the plot IMO.

Gah, yeah. Or queen Amidala dying in childbirth in a galaxy with really advanced medicine.

There's an article on The Booksmugglers about believeable futuristic militaries which has some interesting things to say about, among other things, contraception and child care.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by hildea

Or queen Amidala dying in childbirth in a galaxy with really advanced medicine.

Well, it was a long time ago...

[shalym]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Well, it was a long time ago...

...in a galaxy far, far away.

Just because a civilization is advanced enough to have space travel and other technology doesn't mean that women don't die in childbirth. Women still die in childbirth, even in developed countries.

Country------Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015.
Australia------5.5
Canada-------7.3
France--------7.8
Germany------9.0
Japan---------6.4
Sweden-------4.4
UK------------9.2
US------------26.4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matern...h#Epidemiology

Shari