SPECIAL ISSUES
special issue archives

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."





Singularity by Kathe Koja


"You're the one who wants to fuck a black hole."





Double Fantasy by Cecilia Tan


The pervy publisher on how she became the mistress of erotic science
fiction.





Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany by Scott Westerfeld


The outrageous literary icon traces the history of sexy sci-fi.







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: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein


"Valentine Michael Smith grokked that physical human love was not simply a
quickening of eggs."





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."






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