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  • Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. A news report says that Torchwood is blaming aliens for the mysterious pregnancy of every woman in the town of Midwich because "every case we investigate involves aliens shagging."

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  • Heavily referenced in the InCryptid series, where the Backstory Invader Johrlac species are nicknamed "cuckoos", and the two Token Heroic Orcs of that species are named Sarah Zellaby and Angela Baker. Sarah canonically chose her last name from the novel, and her IM username is MIDWICH_GIRL.
  • Middlegame by the same author has the twin protagonists discuss the book in the context of their Twin Telepathy and the differences between the children of the book and themselves.

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  • Cracker. Judith Fitzgerald, driven to screaming frustration over the constant demands of her baby, mentions a novel she once read where women are compelled to nurse their alien babies at all cost. "Only a man could write that and call it science fiction."

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