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As in his story " All You Zombies —", we have a male undergoing a sex change and then impregnating herself.

It is also interesting to compare this book with the original version of Podkayne of Mars.

Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.

( Given that I Will Fear No Evil is almost entirely about sex, and its moral, as finally stated, is the importance of procreation, it is remarkable that procreative sex is entirely absent ; Joan becomes pregnant by artificial insemination.

) Both Podkayne of Mars and I Will Fear No Evil have female-point-of-view characters who are portrayed as ideal, almost saintlike types, and both end with the death of the protagonist ( using Heinlein's original ending of Podkayne ).