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	Qwika - similar:Science_fiction
		Soft science fiction or soft SF is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on human characters and their relations and feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws.
		New Wave science fiction was characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow sensibility.
		Science fiction films have explored a great range of subjects and themes, including many that can not be readily presented in other genres.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Science_fiction (1708 words)

	Sex in science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction, the stereotype of sci-fi pulp magazine covers was that of a woman in a brass bikini swooning in the clutches of a bug-eyed monster, while a spacesuited hero comes blasting his way to her rescue.
		Science fiction erotica is frequently associated with Gay science fiction, Lesbian science fiction and S/M (Sado/Masochism) Erotica.
		Numerous science fiction television series and science fiction films have used science fiction plots as an excuse to fit in gratuitous sexual or fetishistic content: one of the conventions of much filmed science fiction appears to be that the future will be peopled exclusively by attractive people wearing skin-tight clothing in shiny materials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex_in_science_fiction (1637 words)

	Science Fiction : the New Wave and Its Aftermath
		The introduction of sex into science fiction opened the way for a number of strikingly original investigations of gender, relationships, and the construction of identity.
		Delany is the first science fiction writer to enter the field as a novelist rather than a short story writer.
		Levin is a mainstream author of science fiction and horror; many of his novels have been made into very successful popular films.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/history/newwave.htm (910 words)

	LiveScience.com - Why We Have Sex: It's Cleansing
		Turns out sex might have evolved as a way to concentrate lots of harmful mutations into individual organisms so they could be easily weeded out by natural selection, a new computer model suggests.
		The classic explanation for the onset of whoopee, about 1 billion years ago, is that it provides a way for organisms to swap and shuffle genes and to create offspring with new gene combinations that might survive if the environment suddenly changes.
		The researchers think that the combination of genetic robustness through sex and the limited ability of organisms to deal with mutations leads to the natural development of negative epistasis.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/060301_evolution_sex.html (749 words)

	The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Justine Larbalestier)
		The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction is a history of women and feminism in American science fiction.
		There are different stories about the presence or absence of women in early science fiction and about the timing and significance of the "Great Invasion" (or "Erosion", as some saw it).
		She started publishing science fiction, and participating in the fan world, under the name James Tiptree Jr in 1967 and as Raccoona Sheldon in 1974.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Battle_Sexes.html (1040 words)

	Gay science fiction - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gay science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that contains typical aspects of science fiction, except the main character or protagonist is almost always gay.
		One of the earliest examples of science fiction that involves a challenging amount of unconventional sexual activity is the early science fiction novel Odd John, by Olaf Stapledon.
		The best of gay science fiction displays this characteristic, but at the other end of the scale there are many examples of stories marketed as gay science fiction that consist primarily of explicit depictions of sexual activities between or among same-sex individuals in some "futuristic" setting.
	www.gurupedia.com /g/ga/gay_science_fiction.htm (586 words)

	Sex – Drugs & Aliens.
		The Science Fiction theme only helps the writer to be totally bizarre and write what others only dream about.
		I believe that readers of Science Fiction have a connection with a reality that normal people could never comprehend, the education they have received since birth has tried to make them conform to unproven theories of evolution and religions that control and restrict their minds.
		Science Fiction writers however can research incidents however diverse, manipulate the information from crop circles to abduction, maybe even just flashing lights in the sky and write some tremendous novels designed to make any normal thinking person question the reality of our world.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/science_fiction/110108/1 (450 words)

	Spector, "Science Fiction and the Sex War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The male science fiction writers who followed Shelley, however, were to regard as monstrous only Shelley's attempt to delineate the male artist's proper endeavors.
		That claim is precisely what one male science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, has contributed to the ongoing sex war in which he declares the male to be a superior creator and claims that "mental motherhood" must be a male preserve.
		Science fiction asks us to consider where the human race is going, while it remembers where we have come from.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/spector.html (5924 words)

	Review: The Second Sex and Science Fiction: A Woman's Liberation: A Choice Of Futures By And About Women, edited by ...
		The title of the collection reflects Willis's view that science fiction was able to move beyond its early female stereotypes -- the princess and the scientist's pretty daughter whose main function was to scream and be rescued.
		They invaded science fiction space where, as Willis tells it, "abstracts can be made actual, and political, social, and philosophical ideas can take on human (or alien) form." They liberated their imaginations as well as their characters.
		Kress brings her superb characterization and science research skills to this first person account of an old woman struggling to shelter her family in a near future devastated by social upheaval.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020506/second_sex.shtml (2050 words)

	SPACE.com -- Sex in Space
		But as a manned mission to Mars moves closer to the realm of possibility, scientists are beginning to expand their studies into sex and romance in space.
		NASA has historically been squeamish about the topic of sex in space; in fact, a psychologist at NASA's Johnson Space Center who studies interpersonal relationships declined, through a spokeswoman, to be interviewed for this article.
		Sex in space works a whole lot better as an idea than in reality, it seems.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/generalscience/sex_space.html (1207 words)

	1984 - Unexpurgated
		The situation was worse in genre science fiction where the target audience consisted principally of adolescent boys who were precocious but socially backward and sexually repressed.
		The sex in science fiction of the day was little better than wistful adolescent romantic fantasies.
		As it is, the novel became one of the many "SF classics", novels read by a handful of science fiction fans and a source of "fanspeak", the argot of the science fiction community.
	www.tiac.net /~cri/2001/1984.html (638 words)

	LiveScience.com - No, Duh! Sex in Media Drives Earlier Teen Passion
		Media with high sexual content is fueling the sex life of teenagers, suggests a new study that surveyed 1,017 fl and white teens between the ages of 12 and 14.
		The scientists found that the best way to protect teenagers from early sexual engagement is for parents to communicate on the topic with their kids.
		Both fl and white teens whose parents disapproved of early sexual activities were less likely to have sex by the time they were 16, the survey found.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/060403_teensex_media.html (480 words)

	Sex In Science Fiction - Page 2 - Absolute Write Water Cooler
		I don't equate not being gratuitious with censorship.
		Sex should be treated the same regardless of genre - if it's relevant to the plot, put it in.
		I grew up with the tradition that sex has no place in Science Fiction writing, and it should not be in Fantasy especially "High Fantasy".
	www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?p=334048 (1511 words)

	Rochester - Sex and science fiction - Arts - Literature - City Newspaper
		He won the field's highest honors as a young man, and was seen as the most promising writer in a genre struggling to redefine itself.
		Overrun by high-tech killing machines, elves and dwarves, Wookies and Klingons, science fiction no longer has such a clear sense of what it is or what it does well.
		Tucker, who is responsible for bringing Delany to Rochester, sees his work as "a very important example of the significance of the intersection of race and sexuality." Tucker uses Delany's works in classes focused not just on the SF field, but the wide spectrum of fl American experience.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:2406 (683 words)

	Self Publishing Blog: New Wave science fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New Wave science fiction was characterised by a great degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow sensibility.
		Another significant contribution of New Wave science fiction was the way sex was presented and perceived in SF.
		Sex had not yet raised its head in SF until the New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.selfpublishingblog.com /2006/05/new_wave_scienc.html (216 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Science Fiction Convention to Feature Blacksburg Writer
		But she can't talk about it yet, which seems likely to complicate her role as a writer guest at Technicon, a science fiction and fantasy convention in Blacksburg this weekend.
		She will be on panels discussing sex and science fiction, electronic publishing and small-press publishing.
		She earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Virginia Tech, additional masters' in science and environmental studies and in fine arts and creative writing at the University of Montana.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/449687/science_fiction_convention_to_feature_blacksburg_writer/index.html?source=r_science (991 words)

	Sex In Science Fiction - Absolute Write Water Cooler
		Sex is human, and I think if it's done well it can be put into any type of fiction.
		Books with explicit sex in them should be marketed to mature readers and clear signals give as to wehther it is a little sex as the plot requires or a full blown orgy-a-tron.
		The flip-side of that, of course, is that lack of self-censorship leads to bloated, self-indulgent, and dull fiction.
	www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19283 (2224 words)

	IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
		But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.
		Science Fiction about Genetic Engineering Reproduction is done in the laboratory, with people systematically conditioned for various strata of life.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/thisthat.html (13395 words)

	Strange Horizons Columns: Science Fiction and Sex Ed, by Christina Socorro Yovovich
		I'd known the facts about the plumbing and such long before, and had read and blushed at innuendos and sex jokes in books for almost as long, but that book was the first thing I encountered which gave.
		I was lucky, too, to be living in Madison, Wisconsin, and lucky to have a friend who had been attending WisCon, Madison's feminist science fiction convention, since she was a little kid.
		The Tiptree Award, combined with the Con's panel about the best science fiction of the year, informed anywhere from a third to a half of my reading throughout the end of high school and all of college.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20051107/yovovich-c.shtml (1011 words)

	Nerve.com - I Did It for Science: Sex Doll by Grant Stoddard
		For those unfamiliar with the piece, here is the plot: unpopular dweebs Gary (Hall) and Wyatt face the very real possibility of dying with their virginities uncompromised.
		It was rumored, however, that two resourceful twin brothers from a neighboring town constructed a lo-fi sex surrogate by taping a close-up picture from a girlie magazine to a ratty old cushion with a hole cut in it.
		I hadn't, and until I visited the company's website, my impression of a sex doll was an inflatable piece of tarp with a gaping mouth.
	www.nerve.com /Regulars/ididitforscience/SexDoll (1242 words)

	SPACE.com -- 'Meet Me In the Airlock ... ' Will Sex In Space Fly?
		But as a piloted mission to Mars moves closer to the realm of possibility, scientists are beginning to expand their studies into sex and romance in space.
		Still, while the Russians have studied the impact of weightlessness on animals in space, including the animals' sex drives, romance and sex for procreation hasn't figured prominently in their work.
		The only space agency that seems to be paying any attention to sexual issues in space is the European Space Agency, which published a study in 1998 that showed spaceflight causes a reduction in testosterone levels in male astronauts.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/generalscience/sex_space_000313.html (1239 words)

	Darrell Bain's Newsletter
		I like historical fiction when it's done well, and Betty assures me this one is. It's had several printings since being published in 1963 so she's probably right.
		Historical fiction is best done by those authors who do their research and get their facts straight and try to depict historical characters with accuracy.
		Pioneer life is romanticized in fiction, but the books rarely mention the lack of toilet paper and refrigeration, just to mention a couple of modern necessities.
	www.darrellbain.com /newsletterNov05.html (2378 words)

	Pharyngula: Sex in the MRI
		People have tried to figure out how the pieces all fit together internally using cadavers and their imagination, by using a speculum and poking around with their fingers, and by clever tools, like hollow glass tubes shaped like a penis.
		This paper tries something different: the investigators had people have sex in an MRI tube, and snapped a few pictures while they were at it.
		Hehehe, having sex for science is a great idea, but I think it's even better when there's a second girl there to "coach" you on your abilities.
	scienceblogs.com /pharyngula/2006/04/sex_in_the_mri.php (3421 words)

	Amazon.com: The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex: Books: Annie Potts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction, femininity and masculinity, and safer sex practice.
		Text explores contemporary feminist and post-structuralist theories of sex and gender.
		Nowhere, perhaps, do the interests of fiction and those of science meet and mingle more intimately than in that body of knowledge we have come to call 'sexuality'.
	www.amazon.com /Science-Fiction-Sex-Deconstruction-Vocabularies/dp/0415257301 (752 words)

	The Outer Limits-Sex & Science Fiction (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Outer Limits: Sex & Science Fiction is a 2 disc set which offers six episodes from the new Outer Limits series which ran from 1995 - 2001 (the first series ran from 1963 to 1965).
		Although grouping several episodes into a sub-genre like Sex And Science Fiction is a novel idea, I would have much preferred the series to be released by season as per usual.
		The Outer Limits - Sex And Science Fiction is presented in 1.33:1 full frame as it was broadcast on television and it is not 16x9 enhanced.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=6197&SID=2&PID=781352 (622 words)

	Outer Limits: Sex and Science Fiction
		One of these sets is Outer Limits: The New Series: Sex And Science Fiction.
		They still sought to present material that might never be acceptable and coat it in science fiction.
		She is inhabited by an extraterrestrial life form that turns her in to a seductive killer.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /outer.htm (1059 words)

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