Alien Sex

Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy is a 1990 anthology edited by Ellen Datlow.

See also the sequel: Off Limits

Contents

• "Foreword: Strange Attractors" by William Gibson;
• Introduction;
• "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy;
• "War Bride" by Rick Wilber;
• "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" Harlan Ellison;
• "The Jamesburg Incubus" Scott Baker;
• "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" Larry Niven;
• "The First Time" by K. W. Jeter;
• "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" by Philip Jose Farmer;
• "Husbands" Lisa Tuttle;
• "When the Fathers Go" Bruce McAllister;
• "Dancing Chickens" Edward Bryant;
• "Roadside Rescue" Pat Cadigan;
• "Omnisexual" Geoff Ryman;
• "All My Darling Daughters" Connie Willis;
• "Arousal" by Richard Christian Matheson;
• "Scales" by Lewis Shiner;
• "Saving the World at the New Moon Motel" by Roberta Lannes;
• "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" by James Tiptree, Jr.;
• "Picture Planes" by Michaela Roessner; and
• "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy.

Editions

• (Roc (Penguin): New York, 1990.

This is not an explicitly feminist anthology, but it does contain a number of very excellent feminist stories and writers (including Lisa Tuttle, Pat Cadigan, Connie Willis, James Tiptree, Jr., and Pat Murphy).