Intrusion

Intrusion (2012) is a near-future dystopian novel set in a Britain where the benign intentions of a paternalistic state have become a form of tyranny. At its center is a genetic treatment taken during pregnancy that eliminates a range of heritable conditions. The state does not legally require it, but the social and bureaucratic machinery surrounding pregnant women makes refusal increasingly difficult to sustain. Hope Morrison simply doesn't want to take it, and her quiet, principled resistance brings the full weight of an impersonal system down on her family. Scottish author Ken MacLeod constructs a dystopia that is not a jackbooted tyranny but a well-meaning liberal state whose concern for child welfare has gradually become a form of oppression.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth boards with red lettering on spine. London: Orbit, 2012. British Science Fiction Award nominee (2012). ISBN: 9781841499390. #11466.
Fine in fine dust jacket.