Description:
In a near-future America where women have just gained access to asexual reproduction, three converging perspectives tell the story of a profound societal transformation.
Review Quotes:
Fruits of Our Labor is an unapologetically opinionated exploration of the growing pains associated with a world in transition. Patterson's compulsively readable prose sets up a frame to show a changing world and the impact it has on those who change with it... and those who don't. A thoughtful exploration of gender, power structures, and the dangers of wrathful rhetoric. (M.J. Kuhn, best-selling author of Among Thieves, Thick as Thieves, and Killswitch Protocol)
Patterson writes the future with the weight of history behind every page. Fruits of Our Labor carries grief, reverence, and an unflinching eye for the choices that reshape the world. It isn't just high-concept speculative fiction; it's a story that bleeds. (S.J. Lee, author of the Altered Earth series, and All That Holds Between)
Fruits of Our Labor is for the now. In fact, the now should've arrived many years ago. It's a story where the world finally places women in legitimate power, and Ian Patterson writes it with such care and gusto that we can't help but believe. (France Pinzon, author of Intrinsic)
Ian Patterson has done something extraordinary. He has written a tale about the progress of progress. With expert craft and pristine sentences, Fruits of Our Labor presents a kind of feminist telos, an imagining of something impossible but also eerily, unavoidably, familiar. Heartfelt and never belabored, it's the kind of book any writer wishes they wrote. (Eponynonymous, author of The People in The Box)