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11/27/08
Not only that, from what I've read of Heinlein (a lot of the earlier stuff, admittedly) Heinlein strikes me as an incredibly ham-fisted sexist.
I personally find that lately Peter Hamilton's books seem to sex it up quite a bit, and some of it has been rather good. Probably a bit subjective, I guess, but trying to find good sex in Sci-fi is questionable anyhow. Despite the complaint above, I think Fantasy has always done a better job as a genre - until recently, maybe.
Lastly, Barker's sex scenes in IMAJICA were some of the best I'd ever read, especially his bits on anal sex, to be rather explicit.
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11/28/08
the "Tarzan" character is ass raped, and "Jane" (the cousin of "Doc Savage") is raped by a giant ape (with a laughably small penis).
I highly recommend that you expand your "classical" horizons with some PJF. He is still absolutely fresh and at (or beyond) the edge of the envelope.
11/29/08
11/26/08
There *was* a reason that he was one of the dedicatees of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land".
11/26/08
That, and the pig boy whose unit lit up.
No, I am not kidding. The Image of the Beast turns folks queer and kinky on contact, I tell you what.
11/28/08
11/26/08
Stranger in a Strange Land = SciFi
Any Anne Rice book = fantasy bullsh*t
Ya dig?
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11/26/08
HOORAY!!!!!!! *throws confetti!*
YOU ARE TOTALLY DOING SOMETHING RIGHT :D
11/26/08
11/27/08
I think it's less the fact that you're covering fantasy now, and more the fact that you just now lumped it under the sci-fi name.
11/27/08
Ah, but if you go back far enough, "fantasy" was just another sub-category of science fiction.
Or was that the other way around?
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11/26/08
The Oankali = my favorite aliens EVER in sci-fi. Even though they rely too much on messy wetware.
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11/26/08
We won't even mention Piers Anthony. Sex with robots, aliens, unicorns, werewolves, incest, etc. I don't think there's anything his characters won't bone. Even zombie sex.
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Hee hee hee.
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Did I say that out loud?
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11/28/08
Why is the philosophy "pseudo?"
These books have sexual concepts, but I'm not sure they qualify for this post (except maybe IWFNE). By that logic, so would The Bible.