And writer Paul McAuley says it may be about to happen again:

Sf publishing has always been a chancy, hand-to-mouth affair for most. It imploded again in the early 1980s, and there are signs that it's about to implode again. And because they can't hope for sinecure positions in creative writing in universities (although that's changing, now), sf writers have always been ready to turn their hands and minds to the kind of writing that can be churned out quickly and profitably.... While Silverberg et al were working in the titillation trade in the US, over here in the UK Michael Moorcock was editing New Worlds with one hand and writing Sexton Blake adventures with the other, while many of his contemporaries were writing westerns, biker novels and, yes, sexploitation novels. A little later, Kim Newman and Neil Gaiman worked for the British soft porn magazine Knave. And sf writers today are also working in comics and graphic novels, novels based on role-playing games (Kim Newman and a slew of authors associated with Interzone in the 1990s wrote innovative and highly successful short stories novels for Games Workshop), film tie-ins . . .

The question is, if SF publishing does have another implosion, where will authors go this time? Porn publishing has been even harder hit by the Internet than other genres. Where will the suddenly starving SF authors turn this time around? [Paul McAuley]

Last year, Nerdcore gifted us with sensual scenes from cyberpunk and space opera with its science fiction calendar, and the year before it was scantily clad superheroes and villains. This year, their pinups pay tribute to the horror genre, from ghosts and zombies to Alfred Hitchcock and Sam Raimi. Higher res images of the first six images are available at Destructoid and of the last three images at ShockTillYouDrop.

Update: We've replaced two of the images with uncensored versions from our sister site Fleshbot. Check out Fleshbot for more uncensored images from the calendar.

The calendars (which will not have Nerdcore censoring glasses over the sexy parts) are currently available for pre-order for $25.00.

[Nerdcore 2010 Calendar]

So let's get this straight... according to Caprica, the human brain only occupies 300 megabytes of hard drive space. But according to this anime, a man's sperm contains a whopping 1600 gigabytes of memory upgrade. That seems a tad skewed, but then again, you never know.

I love the part where the guy's sperm has so much memory in it, that she has to write a whole new directory with her new name attached. He actually names her by fucking her. It's sort of romantic, I guess. And then it works — so go, beam attack! Also, right after this bit, we discover that the other sexbot went crazy because her write-protection was removed, and too many other men were able to write to her directory. In other words, she was a crazy slut bot.

We already featured a different scene from Buttobi CPU in our round-up of sex mechas and space pirates in anime porn, but this sequence is so fantastic, it needed its own post.

The wonderful Comic Book Legends Revealed column this week revealed the truth behind 1970s porn movie Ms. Magnificent, which started life as an even more obvious Superman The Movie rip-off called Super-Woman. Unsurprisingly, DC Comics - who'd created a Superwoman character in the 1940s to protect copyright - sued, but surprisingly, it wasn't just the name that they wanted ownership of:

DC wanted them to remove all flying sequences, as that was going to be a big part of Superman: The Movie, and they felt that it was too similar to their Superman TV series. The court disagreed, but allowed all the other changes.So the movie went from Super-Woman to Ms. Magnificent!

As you can tell from the video tagline, the moviemakers got to keep that flying thing. Oh, and something else from the Superman mythos, as well... well, kind of:

Oh, just because I figured you folks would be interested, [villainess] Kreetia Borgia does, indeed, have a dildo made out of a green alien substance that is "Ms. Magnificent's" weakness.

It's like fanfic gone... well, wrong-er.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #223 [Comic Book Resources]

Seriously, you have to make a major effort to avoid Futurama porn — go to Google image search and, if you have "safe search" turned off, most of the hits for Futurama will be R-rated or X-rated. The hard part is finding the good stuff. We sorted through thousands of naked Leela pictures, and perverted Bender pics, to find the absolute greatest.

Why does Futurama inspire so much lust? Well, it's a cartoon, and cartoons have always been easy/fun fodder for pornographers. But it's also a genuinely fun show with sexy characters. There are few characters, human or robot, as perverted and grungy as Bender. And Leela's purple-haired cyclops look is the essence of cuteness. Most Futurama porn revolves around Leela and Amy, with Fry in the mix sometimes. But there's a surprisingly large amount of Bender porn (including having sex with the Professor (!?) and even Dr. Zoidberg porn. Because there really is something for everybody.

Last warning: The images in this gallery really are not safe for work, or really for life. We left out any of the really hardcore images we found, but there were some images that were too great not to include.

Hustler put out This Ain't Star Trek XXX as a tie-in to J.J. Abrams' reimagining of the classic series. And the movie does boast an impressive cast, including Sasha Grey (The Girlfriend Experience) as a random Vulcan and Evan Stone as Captain Kirk. There are moments of inspired silliness, and the sets and costumes are top notch. But in the end, this is probably the least interesting Star Trek porno I've seen.

And because I'm a bit of a masochist, I've seen them all. Star Trek porn has a long and demented history, as you'll know if you read our exhaustive roundup, but there seem to be a few constants:

• It's always about the original series crew for some reason
• it's always kind of silly, since the porn producers are relying on a "parody" loophole to make Trek porn without getting sued
• It always features a Spock who's skeevy and/or unsexy.

So following in the footsteps of past Trek porn vids, which spoofed the plots of "The Man Trap," "Charley X," "Where No Man Has Gone Before," and even "Spock's Brain" (this time, they steal Spock's cock), Trek XXX is somewhat based on the episode "Space Seed," where we first meet Khan Noonien Singh. The Enterprise finds Khan in suspended animation and brings him on board, where he starts to impress his will (and in this version, a lot more) on an impressionable young lieutenant named Marla. (We even get all the stuff where he asks her why she wears her hair in an uncomplimentary fashion and helps her take her hair down, in one of the movie's moments of true sexiness.)

And of course, Khan's plan for taking over the Enterprise requires everybody on board to have lots of vigorous porno-style sex (including reverse-cowgirl... in space!) in order to survive.

That's the main problem with this movie, of course: it's way more of a formulaic porn video than any other Trek vids I've seen before. The non-porno scenes are basically little interludes to set up the action, before we move on to the ritualistic sex acts today's porn consumers expect, in exactly the right order: sucking first, then intercourse, then cumshot. There's not much playfulness or fun about it, once the sex starts. It's just sort of business-like, and actually detracts from the camp value of the overall spoof.

The other big problem, though, is Spock. As I mentioned, every porn video based on the franchise I've ever seen has featured a supremely unattractive actor playing Spock, and this is by no means an exception. The sexiest character in Trek somehow comes out as a damp squib, with no charisma or passion. This is especially sad when Zachary Quinto has just brought Spock's sexiness front and center again.

Of course, it would be hard to make Spock sexy in a porn video, since a big part of his appeal is the fact that he's got a cauldron of hot passion just underneath his dispassionate surface, and he struggles to keep the lid on. In a porn vid, of course, there's never any struggle against sexual passion, because the viewer (supposedly) just wants to see the characters get down to business. But I still think you could have a porn-Spock who brought that sense of smoldering desire, finally unleashed, to his performance. Instead, Tony De Sergio gives us a Spock who manages to act bored the whole time he's having sex. He literally keeps saying "fasinating" and "highly illogical" in a detached voice while he's getting it on. I can't imagine anybody thinking that was sexy.

On the flipside, Sasha Grey really is fun to watch as a sexy Vulcan, mostly because she's incredibly cute and has a sparkly dress. And cute shoes. She's not particularly Vulcan-ish, but that's okay, I guess. There's also a random space-babe with sparkly silver tights, which is a plus. Nick Manning, as Khan, chews scenery enjoyably, and the scene where he takes down Marla's hair is actually kind of sweet (and then she blows him immediately afterwards). And Evan Stone really is nigh perfect as Kirk.

I was trying to figure out why this Trek porn video was less fun than the other ones I've seen, and I have a few possible answers. For one thing, I wasn't trying to review those others, so maybe I was watching them with a less critical eye. (I've never reviewed a porn video before, and I'm still not sure how.) But also, this video just felt much more like it was a prisoner of the standard porn conventions, with the sex acts feeling extremely rote and boring.

But also, I think there's maybe a playfulness and campiness that all X-rated Star Treks reach for, which is present in the 1990s versions more than in this one. Hustler puts a certain amount of campy silliness into some of the interludes between the action, but the sex itself never feels light-hearted or silly, like it does in some of the Sex Trek vids.

I just want to conclude this review with a plea to the pornographers of the world: please make a sexy Star Trek video. Doesn't even have to be X-rated, and in fact it might be better if it was just R-rated. Just... more sexy outfits, more cuteness, more sexy aliens and much, much more of Spock struggling with his suppressed urges. (Actually, the best thing in the universe might be a lesbian porn video with women playing Kirk and Spock.) Star Trek has been bringing the sexiness for over 40 years, and porn hasn't ever quite been able to keep up. So somebody please create the Trek porn we've been waiting for — make it so.

I think they discovered another law of robotics, then broke it. More pics at the link. [Red Blooded Thing]

With a title like Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead, you wouldn't really expect this film to be a landmark of great cinema. But it defies your worst expectations - it's one of the most horrendous exploitation movies ever inflicted on celluloid.

Basically, the first hour is a strung-together set of horrible sex scenes (including one scene between a girl and a champagne bottle, with godawful lounge music.) And then, in the last half hour, the film finally remembers to have a plot, and the mysterious island with the black cat turns out to be infested with flesh-eating zombies. Plus there's a mysterious old man - and his mysterious daughter (Gemser, who plays Emmanuelle in many low-budget skin flicks) and she's not actually a zombie, but does enjoy devouring people's sexual organs. Oh dear. [IMDB]

The big special effects blockbusters get CGI artists, but this movie gets something even more awesome: A dick wrangler. You can hear all about his special craft in this bonus clip.

There's also this amazing scene with two of the porn actresses in the film (one of whom is actually a porn actresses in real life too). This is comedy gold, people.

Not only does the flick feature the Hedgehog himself, but it's also got Buffy fave Amber Benson. And it looks freakin hilarious. You can pick it up on DVD on April 28.

It sounds as though This Ain't Star Trek XXX will follow the storyline of "Space Seed," the classic episode which introduced Ricardo Montalban's Khan. At least somewhat. (Since there have already been porno recreations of "Charley X," "The Man Trap" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before," this isn't quite so surprising. Link is NSFW.)

The Enterprise finds a ship that's been floating in space for 200 years, and on board is Khan, in suspended animation. But with him are two sexy alien women — for obvious reasons. And judging from the photo up top, Lieutenant Marla McGivers plays a big role in the story as well, as the woman whom Khan tries to seduce. Khan, coming from an earlier time, is more barbaric, more macho and more "bare-chested" than the civilized Kirk, and he decides to try and take over the Enterprise.

And this is where the story diverges from "Space Seed" considerably.

According to Krypton, "Khan's method of trying to take over the ship leads to the crewmembers having to engage in sexual situations against their will." He wouldn't go into details about this, but check out this work-safe clip of something weird happening to Kirk's eyes:

Perhaps as a result of Khan's machinations, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy is forced to have sex with Nurse Christine Chapel, or they'll both die. "They have a reason where they pretty much have to have sex, it's a life or death situation," explains Krypton. (Sadly, Spock doesn't hook up with Chapel, despite all of the longing glances she gave him throughout the series.) And the film climaxes (so to speak) with a threesome on the Bridge of the Enterprise, between Kirk, Spock and Uhura. Take that, "Plato's Stepchildren!"

Krypton, obviously a huge Trek nerd, insists that even though Hustler's porn spoof is over the top and silly, it respects the original show, and tries to convey how these characters would really act in this situation. After all, the original show was quite campy at times, so it's not that much of a leap. But the movie goes to some lengths to be true to the characters and their history, says Krypton.

There are no green women in the movie, because "putting someone in full body paint is a nightmare in a adult porn video," says Krypton. It's almost impossible to avoid having the body paint rub off on the other actor during a sex scene, and there are certain body parts that people might not want to paint green. Hustler did have a green woman in its Munsters porno spoof, and they solved the problem of paint rubbing off on the costar by color-correcting the image afterwards. (The color-correction gave the scene a cartoony look, which worked better for the Munsters than for Star Trek.)

But as we mentioned, there will be two alien babes. One, played by Jenna Hayes, is human-looking apart from her slinky Barbarella-esque outfit. The other is a Vulcan, played by Steven Soderbergh actress Sasha Grey. Grey's character is struck with a "rare form" of Pon Farr, the Vulcan mating drive, and has to have sex with Captain Kirk in the Transporter Room — she just has to. And for Kirk, this is an opportunity to work out his issues with Vulcans after years of being frustrated with Mr. Spock. He can finally have sex with a Vulcan, but he finds that his frustrations with Vulcan logic persist even during their hookup.

Oh, and Mr. Spock doesn't have green sperm in this film, unlike in some of the other porn films.

But the answer to the question you're most anxiously asking — does Kirk look up and scream "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!" during this film — is yes. He does. And Khan also yells "Kiiiiiiiiirk!" back. By the way, Evan Stone, who plays Kirk, doesn't consciously do a William Shatner impression. But Stone, according to Krypton, already sounds like Shatner most of the time. He has a "cadence and a dramatic flair" that are quite Shatner-esque. He may ramp it up a bit for this film, but he doesn't need much to seem Shatnerian.

Krypton is very proud of the high production values in this Trek spoof, which he says stand "head and shoulders" above what's been done before. (You can see for yourself, with the pics and clip above.) Hustler spent a lot of money on the sets and costumes, trying to make it look as cool as possible, as well as "colorful and fun." The movie comes out in May, to coincide with the release of J.J. Abrams less-orgiastic Star Trek. Find out more at Hustler World.

Space Nuts is a legend among crappy porno scifi comedies. (The tagline: "In space, nobody can hear you cream!") The adventures of Captain Buzz Starfokker include a whole mission to rescue the Princess Hubba Hubba from an Evil Overlord. Mostly, though, there's a lot of really silly dialogue and weird innuendo. Observe:

Sexy Space Pirates!

Mad Science Is Sexy Science!

Aliens Want Your Sex!

The Sex Mechas!

After watching the movie, all the way through, it's never entirely clear to me exactly why the Daleks want to capture healthy human women in stripper heels in the first place. They make a huge show of "interrogating" the women, but never actually ask any questions. It's also not clear if they want to mate with these women — which would be quite out of character for the Daleks, who are obsessed with racial purity on Doctor Who. Even when they finally accept human DNA, only one cell in a billion is worthy of cultivation.

Abducted starts with three women picking up a fourth (who's really a Dalek agent) and then as they're driving down the street, they run over a super-fake looking alien and their car is wrecked. Even though there's a woman-skinning serial killer at large, the four women wander off into the forest, split up and then decide to remove their clothes randomly. And that's when the Daleks grab them with their teleportation device. I love the fact that the women don't notice they've been teleported to an alien spaceship and are surrounded by Daleks, until one Dalek makes a throat-clearing noise.

The interrogation doesn't go very well, so first the Daleks bring in their sexy human agent, who dresses up like a dominatrix and threatens the women with a big bullwhip. And then the Daleks set their ray guns on vibrate and train them on the women:

Note: I actually made three clips of Abducted, but decided to put up only two because so many people have mentioned a bug where all the videos start playing at once when they click through on a post. Let me know if I should add an extra clip, or if the simultaneous launch issue would be too annoying.

Update: Here's that third clip, by request:

I feel like most yaoi art is fantasy-oriented. Is your work more oriented towards fantasy or science fiction?

A lot of my art is ambiguous as to whether it's fantasy or sci-fi, but I think I gravitate more towards fantasy. Lately I've been doing more steampunk themed art, which I guess falls more into the sci-fi category... So the scifi vs. fantasy might even be around 50-50 at this point. I've often tried to break out of the scifi/fantasy niche and just draw something completely mundane, but I can't seem to manage it.

How big is the yaoi audience in the U.S. now? Is it as big as it is in Japan?

I won't claim to be an expert on the yaoi market. I'm pretty sure the Japanese yaoi market still far surpasses the American created/produced yaoi scene. They've just been doing it longer, and most of our popular yaoi media is imported from Japan. I think many of the bigger publishing houses are not so quick to pick up yaoi as they have been to dive into general audience manga, so that keeps the market small. It's difficult for the small presses to to make it in the business, and that's where most of our American yaoi is coming from - small presses, independant publishers, and self-publishing.

When did you get involved in yaoi art?

I discovered rather early in my teenage years that having two guys together is just hot, so when I first found yaoi on the internet (it is for porn, after all) it was like coming home. I didn't join the yaoi art scene until much later, circa 2004, but it really only coincided with graduating from college and suddenly having more time on my hands. Moving to San Francisco helped also, because that gave me my first chance to attend Yaoi-Con and meet the community in person. Having a group to share the artwork with just gave me more reasons to draw yaoi-themed art.

Tranceptor by Michael Manning and Patrick Conlon. A bondage/pony-girl/stable-boy/giant lizard epic by the cult fetish artist Manning, also known for The Spider Garden and Cathexis.

Apocalypse how? It's not clear. There's been some kind of global cataclysm that has reduced the world to a crappy industrial wasteland where the living is difficult. Maybe nuclear. Lots of splash pages of the bleak wasteland our characters travel through. And there's mention of "the corps" which keeps drafting all the able-bodied men. The titular Tranceptor is a kind of dominatrix-matriarch who travels around with her sexy pony-girls. She visits the used-up Waystation 56, where people "mine" for disused machines.

The money shot: Well, if you like pony-girls, it's made of money shots. Manning claims in an interview that everyone in Tranceptor wears some kind of futuristic space-age latex that's incredibly strong and pliable. The stable-boy Hyu at Waystation 56 gets initiated into sex by the Tranceptor and her pony-girls, and the Tranceptor has an encounter with a giant lizard, which is probably someone's fetish. Oh, and there's fetish ninja action!

Stiletto by Justine Blanco. An eeevil space pirate who's also sort of a dominatrix captures a ship full of rich men and women, and decides to hold them for ransom. And while she's got them, she decides to have some fun with them.

Apocalypse how? We don't get many details, but it's obviously an every-rogue-for-herself kind of universe out there. The spaceships are big and spikey with lots of dark metal surfaces inside. And the evil ship's captain has two beast-men helping her, who may be the product of some kind of genetic engineering. One character looks sort of cyborg-y.

The money shot: The reason that space pirate lady's ship is so huge is to accomodate a massive dungeon, filled with incredibly fancy equipment. Including fancy genital-shaving/enema equipment. The space-pirates seem to have all the time in the world for devising fancy bondage scenarios that are part mindfuck, part regular fuck. Oh, and there are giant spanking machines.

The Great Invasion is the first graphic novel from BDSMArt.com. Webmaster Nuria tells us the site has a high proportion of women visitors, and this story is meant to appeal to women because it's told from the POV of an enslaved woman.

Apocalypse how? It's remarkably detailed. A hundred years from now, the world is divided between two great superpowers. A technophobic Catholic/Islamic pact governs Europe, Africa and part of Asia, and the advanced "techno-militaristic" Red Alliance controls China and Central/South America. Due to incompetent birth-control policies and a new, deadlier strain of AIDS, the Red Alliance faces a demographic crisis. The male-female ratio in China and South America is 30 to 1, meaning extinction is only two generations away. So in 2132, a Chinese scientist devises a virus that targets spermatazoa, and the "Red Alliance" sprays North America with it. All North American males die out within a day. The South and Central Americans wait a year for the virus to die out, then invade and enslave the women.

The money shot: A lot of ">The Great Invasion is deliberately fucked up and brutal. But you have to admire the over-the-topness of the scene where the main character is for sale, with the big floating holographic display listing all her stats. Including "clit sensitivity," which they've figured out how to measure on a scale from 1 to 10. And the big bubble car (which looks electric-powered) with its built-in bondage rack.

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• A Clockwork Orange: Malcolm McDowell was given an experimental injection and forced to watch images of violence and sex until the mixture made him barf. Can you imagine throwing up whenever you watched porn? That's the very worst torture of all.
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• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Khan takes an earwig and drops it inside of Chekov's helmet, where it slowly crawls into his ear, spitting some kind of bloody acid as it goes. Then it wraps itself around his cerebral cortex and makes him Khan's bitch. That scene made me sleep with earplugs for about six months when I was a kid, and it still creeps me out.
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• Doctor Who — "Vengeance on Varos": Colin Baker (during his chubby years) visits Varos, a planet where people are shown public scenes of torture and execution for entertainment. Sort of like American Idol, with a sadistic Ryan Seacrest. The Doctor was a bit of a dick in this episode, getting a lot of people killed and leaving the torture machines intact when he left. Nice guy.
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• The Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader takes Han Solo into his private torture room on Bespin and lowers him onto a really nasty looking torture rack. As Han's screams echo throughout Cloud City, someone had the bright idea to turn this into a fucking action figure! "Here Timmy, enjoy torturing Harrison Ford!" Genius.
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• Brazil: Jonathan Pryce gets tortured by his former friend Michael Palin wearing a hideous babyface mask in Terry Gilliam's dark vision of the future. In fact, there's a whole branch of the Ministry of Information called "information retrieval" to get jobs like this done, just like George Bush's CIA does. Everything becomes unraveled when a typo gets the wrong man killed. No spellcheck for you.
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• Cube: Seven strangers wake up inside a giant cube, where each new room contains a deadly trap that they have to figure out. In the first three minutes of the movie, a guy gets chopped into square pieces by a swinging razor-bladed gate. So you know you're in for something really special. Plus, there's high-level math involved in figuring out the puzzle, which is a special kind of torture right there. Damn prime numbers.
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• Star Trek: The Next Generation — "Chain of Command": Patrick Stewart should have walked away with a special Oscar for over-the-top acting in this episode, but I still love the damn thing. Picard is kidnapped and brainwashed over and over by a Cardassian agent, played by the excellently evil David Warner. Warner keeps asking how many lights are on the wall, and although Picard is promised comfort and luxury if he says there are five lights, he never breaks. At the end of the episode, as he stumbles out of the torture room, he turns and shouts, "THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!" Just watch the damn thing below, it still gives me goosebumps.

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