Guest edited by Scott Westerfeld, author of Evolution's
Darling. In the issue:
Caryatids by Christopher Barzak
"The Doctor says, "I don't want a girl. I want you as a girl." He
holds up a needle filled with green liquid — nanomites that will
rewrite my genes and reconstruct my body."
And check out Nerve's pu-pu platter of classic alien sex scenes!
Excerpt: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
"Arousal and orgasm are no longer necessary; they would be a symptom of
frivolity merely, like jazz garters or beauty spots."
Excerpt: So Long and Thanks For All the Fish by Douglas Adams
"They had emerged at the top of the high-stacked cumulonimbus, and now began
lazily to drift down its contours, as Fenchurch eased Arthur in turn from
his clothes."
Excerpt: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
"I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between
Gethenian double-sexed and Hainishnorm one-sexed human beings . . . "
Excerpt: Evolution's Darling by Scott Westerfeld
"He could have used filaments so thin that they wouldn't have triggered a
gag reflex, but he wanted her to feel it."
