Project Gutenberg 2009-12-19 Public domain in the USA. 82 Bixby, Jerome 1923 1998 Bixby, Jay Lewis Bixby, Jerry Bixby, Drexel Jerome Lewis Neal, Harry Drexel, Jay B. Lewis, D. B. Lewis, D.B. Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly Where There's Hope Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Where There's Hope" by Jerome Bixby is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story explores the struggles of a group of colonists on a newly discovered planet, New Earth, as they try to establish a safe and sustainable colony after leaving a dying Earth. The central theme revolves around the ethical implications of procreation in an unstable environment and the necessity of balancing survival with the desire for future generations. In this narrative, the Chief Medical Officer, Hugh Farrel, faces a dilemma when he encounters resistance from the colonist women, led by Mary Pornsen, regarding childbirth due to the dangerous conditions on the planet. As the men express a pressing need for children to ensure the colony's future, they grapple with the reality of their deteriorating health from the journey and Earth's radiation. In a controversial move, Farrel and his colleagues use hypnosis to influence couples into having children, believing that offspring are crucial for their survival and eventual colonization efforts. The story culminates twenty-one years later with a reflection on the successful establishment of the colony, albeit with a profound ethical cost that remains unexamined by its inhabitants. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 39622 39628 2024-10-13T07:04:18.740419 2023-09-13T11:27:10.858173 text/html text/html 35598 2021-01-05T23:36:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 295691 2021-01-05T23:36:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 360846 2024-10-13T07:04:22.801397 application/epub+zip 359265 2024-10-13T07:04:20.489393 application/epub+zip 78199 2024-10-13T07:04:19.349394 application/epub+zip 477981 2024-10-13T07:04:24.523360 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 470056 2024-10-13T07:04:22.101378 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 133326 2022-09-14T07:55:10.190848 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 33039 32938 2024-10-13T07:04:18.466423 2023-09-13T11:27:10.680186 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 32912 2021-01-05T23:36:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12895 2021-01-05T23:36:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21156 2024-10-13T07:04:24.652358 application/rdf+xml 12736 2024-10-13T07:04:19.886426 image/jpeg 3458 2024-10-13T07:04:19.617390 image/jpeg 358499 2024-10-13T07:04:18.754431 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia