Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines [Paperback]

Cecilia Tan (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 2006

Every form of technology humankind has invented has been co-opted for two uses: warfare and getting off. Electricity, internal combustion, the telephone, the Internet — there's no reason to think this trend will stop as we move into the future of nanotechnology, neuroscience, and space travel. However, whether the future is a Gernsbackian vision of flying cars and cloud cities, or a gritty gray cyberpunk world, there is always a need for sex.

Award-winning authors such as Joe Haldeman, Nalo Hopkinson, and Catherine Asaro are among the leading lights of science fiction and erotica who contribute to this book, as well as Paul DiFilippo, Sarah Micklem, Bruce Sterling, M. Christian, Thomas S. Roche, Saachi Green, and many others.

Editorial Reviews

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"Cecilia Tan need[s] to be praised for [her] dedication to the cause of erotica in speculative fiction...The imaginative breadth of speculative fiction gives its writers the chance to be among the forerunners in an exciting and very necessary movement."

About the Author

Editor Cecilia Tan brings to HIGH TECH SEX over a decade of experience at seeking out the best stories to meld erotic action with fantastic fiction. She has had working relationships with many of the cutting-edge erotica writers of her generation—many of whom, not coincidentally, also work in the sf/fantasy genres. Tan has been editor of Circlet Press since 1992 and her own erotic fiction has appeared everywhere from Ms. Magazine to Penthouse, from Best American Erotica to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 283 pages
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press (June 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560258519
• ISBN-13: 978-1560258513
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,802,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write about my passions, which include baseball, erotica, gourmet food, martial arts, and travel. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotic fiction, paranormal romance, and anything else that stimulates my imagination.

In the erotica field, I've been published everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse, and I'm in many, many anthologies and the Best American Erotica series. Susie Bright called me "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Erotic books I've authored include Black Feathers, White Flames, The Velderet, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and The Siren and the Sword (Magic University, Book One). I've also edited many anthologies including Women of the Bite, Cowboy Lover, Sex In The System, Wicked Pleasures, SM Visions, for many different publishers, and many many books and ebooks for the independent publishing house I founded, Circlet Press. Those include Best Fantastic Erotica, Erotic Fantastic, Like an Animal, Like Crimson Droplets, and many others, both for Kindle and in paperback.

In science fiction/fantasy I have been published in Asimov's magazine, Strange Horizons, Absolute Magnitude, and many other places.

In baseball, I am the editor of the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL, author of The 50 Greatest Yankee Games, co-author of 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, the co-editor of THE FENWAY PROJECT, and co-editor of '75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball. I write features for Yankees magazine and other publications. I have a web site of baseball essays, called Why I Like Baseball, at http://whyilikebaseball.com.

You can find out way more about me and my obsessions at www.ceciliatan.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and thought-provoking., November 4, 2006

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This review is from: Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines (Paperback)

SEX IN THE SYSTEM: STORIES OF EROTIC FUTURES, TECHNOLOGICAL STIMULATION AND THE SENSUAL LIFE OF MACHINES provides short fiction revolving around technology and sex, offering erotic science works by Elspeth Potter, Paul DiFilippo, Gavan Grant and others. The stories are futuristic and of great interest to science fiction enthusiasts - but they also hold appeal beyond the usual genre representations and general-interest fiction readers will find them equally engaging and thought-provoking.