Subject: Never read the Vorkosigan saga?
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Posted on: 2010-05-22 17:13:00 UTC

Wow, you're missing out. Basically: Sci-fi world with lots of idiosyncratic planetary cultures. Main character is Miles Vorkosigan, a noble with dwarfism and a secret identity as a mercenary.

The uterine replicator is basically a piece of technology that'll let a baby grow in a bottle. Lots of sci-fi worlds have them, but the Vorkosigan saga was the one I thought of first.
http://vorkosigan.wikia.com/wiki/Uterine_replicator

The other one I can remember now is Brave New World's baby-production assembly line, where babies are grown in bottles. That might be a technology adaptable to a single infant; but you'd better make sure you get the model that's used to develop Alpha babies, or else the poor kid could end up with fetal alcohol syndrome. (Yeah, Brave New World is a dystopia.)

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