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I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
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I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
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I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
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I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
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The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
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A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
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A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
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The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
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Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
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