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Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)
What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wages of Sin (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024), by Dr. Harry Turtledove, a patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting contacts between the sexes except for married couples. While imperfect, such drastic actions do limit the spread of the disease.The ‘Wasting’ (HIV) has caused devastating destruction throughout the known world and severely limited the development of…
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