Харлан Эллисон: Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“The Jamesburg Incubus” copyright © 1990 by Scott Baker.

“Dancing Chickens” copyright © 1984 by Edward Bryant. First published in Light Years and Dark , edited by Michael Bishop. By permission of the author.

“Roadside Rescue” copyright © by Pat Cadigan. First published OMNI Publications International, Ltd. in 1985. By permission of the author.

“How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?” by Harlan Ellison. Copyright © 1977 by Harlan Ellison. Reprinted by arrangement with, and permission of, the author and the author’s agent, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., New York. All rights reserved.

“The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod” copyright © 1968 by Philip José Farmer. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc., 845 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022.

“The First Time” copyright © 1990 by K. W. Jeter.

“Her Furry Face” copyright © 1983 by Leigh Kennedy. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , Mid-December 1983. By permission of the author.

“Saving the World at the New Moon Motel” copyright © 1990 by Roberta Lannes.

“Arousal” copyright © 1990 by Richard Christian Matheson.

“When the Fathers Go” copyright © by Bruce McAllister. First published in Universe 12 , edited by Terry Carr in 1982. By permission of the author.

“Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates” copyright ©1990 by Pat Murphy.

“Man of Steel, Women of Kleenex” copyright © by Larry Niven. First published in All the Myriad Ways in 1971. By permission of the author.

“Picture Planes” copyright © 1990 by Michaela Roessner.

“Omnisexual” copyright © 1990 by Geoff Ryman.

“Scales” copyright © 1990 by Lewis Shiner.

“And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” copyright © 1971 by James Tiptree, Jr. Reprinted by permission of the author’s Estate and the author’s agent, Virginia Kidd.

“Husbands” copyright © 1990 by Lisa Tuttle.

“War Bride” copyright © 1990 by Rick Wilber.

“All My Darling Daughters” copyright © 1985 by Connie Willis. First published in Firewatch , Bluejay Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

copyright © 1990 by Ellen Datlow

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Superman first appeared in Action Comics, June 1938.

One should not think of Superman as a Peeping Tom. A biological ability must be used. As a child Superman may never have known that things had surfaces, until he learned to suppress his X-ray vision.

If millions of people tend shamelessly to wear clothing with no lead in the weave, that is hardly Superman’s fault.

One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy’s puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?

And other forms of kryptonite. For instance, there are chunks of red kryptonite that make giants of kryptonians. Imagine ten million earthworm-sized spermatozoa swarming over a Metropolis beach, diving to fertilize the beach balls… but I digress.

If the pubescent Superboy plays with himself, we have the same problem over Smallville.

For our purposes, all forms of kryptonite are available in unlimited quantities. It has been estimated, from the startling tonnage of kryptonite fallen to Earth since the explosion of Krypton, that the planet must have outweighed our entire solar system. Doubtless the “planet” Krypton was a cooling black dwarf star, one of a binary pair, the other member being a red giant.

She can’t mate with Superman because she’s his first cousin. And only a cad would suggest differently.

Old Brachiate Bruce splice in tape backward here.