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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2010 19:16:29 GMT
Ellen Datlow (ed.) - Alien Sex: 19 Tales By The Masters Of Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy (Grafton, 1991)  Chris Moore
Ellen Datlow - Introduction
Leigh Kennedy - Her Furry Face
Rick Wilber - War Bride
Harlan Ellison - How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?
Scott Baker - The Jamesburg Incubus
Larry Niven - Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
K. W. Jeter - The First Time
Philip José Farmer - The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod
Lisa Tuttle - Husbands
Bruce McAllister - When the Fathers Go
Edward Bryant - Dancing Chickens
Pat Cadigan - Roadside Rescue
Geoff Ryman - Omnisexual
Connie Willis - All My Darling Daughters
Richard Christian Matheson - Arousal
Lewis Shiner - Scales
Roberta Lannes - Saving the World at the New Moon Hotel
James Tiptree, Jr. - And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side
Michaela Roessner - Picture Planes
Pat Murphy - Love and Sex Among the InvertebratesBlurb Sex by Telepathy? Death by Orgasm?
What would it be like if Lois Lane and Superman had sex? What happens when the Other Woman really is out of this world? How do you make love by proxy?
However it's done it's all here in this startling collection of stories from the cream of science fiction and horror writers working today. And as these tales demonstrate, sex in sf serves the same purposes as in all fiction ‑ exploring and illuminating the human condition. The real aliens in many of these stories are not from other planets, but humans viewed from the other side of the sexual divide.
You may be shocked, provoked into unusual thoughts, even outraged by this collection, but one thing is guaranteed - you will not be bored.Locus reckon "All the stories are provocative and remarkably varied. Highly recommended", but i'm wary where Ellen Datlow's horror anthologies are concerned - to my way of thinking, the 'groundbreaking" A Whisper of Blood is, hopefully, as far up its own arse as anyone could or would ever wish to drag 'vampire' fiction - so how am i gonna get on with what looks suspiciously like a bunch of Sci-Fi & "Dark Fantasy" authors pretending they have sex lives? If anyone can give me any pointers - "ooh, that one's good! you'll like that one, demigod!", etc., - maybe i might read them and tell you afterward if you know what you're talking about.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Sept 7, 2010 18:01:01 GMT
I have got this one, dem. I can't remember all the ones I read & I may need to go back to them, but I do remember Liking the Harlan Ellison, Lisa Tuttle & Larry Niven stories (the Niven story is more of an amusing essay than a story, on the possible physics of superman's sex life, including why the kent household would suffer holes from high-speed sperm during his teenage years  . Leigh kennedy's Her Furry Face is good, but slighty unsettling, dealing as it does with a scientist whose study & understanding of orangutans crosses the line. I also remember not getting on with Phillip Jose Farmer's story that well, due to his Burroughs cut-up type style used for it. I hope that's not typical of Farmer's work, as I have a load of his novels & I haven't read them yet. As I say it's been a while since I read the stories, so it's a bit hazey - but the stories I mentioned must have had something about them for them to stick in my mind, even if I can't remember the full details or just what I liked about them. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2010 18:31:33 GMT
Thanks Mr Saucecraft! Turns out i've read Larry Niven's Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex: (Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Superman's Sex Life!) in Michel Parry's Superheroes where it's advertised as a "Special Non-fiction feature." I'll probably give the Farmer story a go as - what are the chances? - i read and very much enjoyed his After King Kong Fell (Michel's Rivals Of King Kong this time) only a couple of hours ago: usually i give PJF a miss as he can be a little .... experimental for me. Way back in the thirties, Henry S. Whitehead wrote a story called Cassius which, from your description of Her Furry Face, was clearly way ahead of it's time. It will probably be ages till i get around to Alien Sex (!!), but when i do, i'll bear your words of wisdom in mind. |
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