The Sperms Stealer

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Today is the last stop of my Every Savage Can Reproduce book tour. I expect to put up my feet and get some good rest afterwards. Every Savage Can Reproduce is a Pride and Prejudice-inspired science fiction. Unofficially I called it The Sperms Stealer story.

Why? Fast forward to year 3818, the story started with Elizabeth Bennet inviting Fitzwilliam Darcy to an illegal mating capsule, propositioning to him to give her a child, by artificial insemination. But Darcy has the hot for her and wants the real deal. So Lizzy decides to tie him up and steal his sperms. Below is an excerpt about that encounter:

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What do you want? Release me immediately!” Darcy cried out angrily. He pulled at the invisible handcuffs with force, but they didn’t budge. He had never been placed in such a vulnerable position before, naked and trussed, at the mercy of a woman half his size.

She stood beside the bed, gazing down at him with an infuriating express of calm. “I still think my method will be easier, Mr. Darcy. We won’t need to”¦ fake anything when we make this baby. In fact, we won’t need to see each other ever again, after this one time. I’ve brought along a medical freezer to store your sperm. You’ll only need to”¦ umh”¦ do it for me once.”

Elizabeth sat by him on the edge of the mattress, not bothering to gather up the body suit to cover her naked body. She was still overheated from the effort of subduing him and tying his ankles to the end of the bed. Only the element of surprise had made it possible. Without it, he would have proved too strong.

She had never touched the body of a naked man before. During the struggle, she had repeatedly found his lower body pressing to hers in a way that was too close for comfort. Flustered now, she diverted her glance to his feet instead. His toes look quite adorable! In fact, he looks extremely handsome, with or without a stitch of clothing… She gave herself a mental shake. Stop it, Lizzy! Concentrate on the matter at hand.

She shifted her weight, intending to fetch the freezer, but he began to argue. “I didn’t agree for you to take my sperm, you know. It’s a theft if you do it without my consent. Do you want me to drag you into court afterwards? Do you want our children to be born under a shadow of animosity?”

Elizabeth turned to glare at him. “You agreed to father my child. Why do you have to be so stubborn about the method?”

“Haven’t you read the research studies that assert that babies who are the result of natural conception and two-parent families are emotionally more balanced?”

“Tell that to your aunt! She banned the people of the Gentry class and below from having sex before marriage when she became the Genesis Director, twenty years ago. Now that she has become Queen Immortal, she even dictates how we can have children. I think she’s insane! And I don’t believe in those research studies you cite. Humans have used natural conception and had two-parent families for thousands of years, and you can see what that did for them! We still have emotionally unbalanced people — people like your aunt ““ who think they can control the world.”

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Well what do you think of this Lizzy? Too ruthless? Comment below and leave your email to have a chance to win a pdf copy of Every Savage Can Reproduce and a souvenir from Australia. Contest ends 10 October and is open to worldwide readers.

Below is detail about Every Savage Can Reproduce (ISBN: 978-0-9806105-9-8):

In the futuristic society on Planet Earth, Elizabeth Bennet is accused of luring Fitzwilliam Darcy to an illegal establishment, which leads to their exile deep in the centre of a rebel planet. The subsequent galactic war exposes dark secrets regarding the autocratic Queen Immortal. Will Elizabeth and Darcy discover their love for one another and find their way back to Earth?

Set in the 39th Century, this novel is a tale of Pride and Prejudice-inspired science fiction, where Jane Austen’s characters take on new lives but still face the barrier of class distinction and seek to overcome their faults, as in the original classic.

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