Off Limits

Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex is a 1996 anthology edited by Ellen Datlow.

Sequel to Alien Sex.

Not an explicitly feminist anthology, but most of the stories deal in some manner of with constructions of gender and sex. (For the most part, not explicitly sexual, either; this is not a book of erotica/porn.) Maybe half the stories deal with constructions of prostitution, slavery, and exploitation of people from developing nations.

Editions

• 1996: St. Martin's Press, New York

Contents

• Foreword by Robert Silverberg
• Introduction by Ellen Datlow.
• "The Reality Trip" Robert Silverberg;
• "The Tattooist" Susan Wade;
• "Dolly Sodom" John Kaiine;
• "The Lucifer of Blue" Sherry Coldsmith;
• "The Queen of the Apocalypse" Scott Bradfield;
• "Oral" Richard Christian Matheson;
• "Grand Prix" Simon Ings;
• "The House of Mourning" Brian Stableford;
• "Fetish" Martha Soukup;
• "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" Gwyneth Jones;
• "The Future of Birds" Mike O'Driscoll;
• "Captain China" Bruce McAllister;
• "Background: The Dream" Lisa Tuttle;
• "Aye, and Gomorrah..." Samuel R. Delany;
• "Ursus Triad, Later" Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg;
• "Sextraterrestrials" Joe Haldeman and Jane Yolen;
• "The Dream-Catcher" Joyce Carol Oates;
• "His Angel" Roberta Lannes;
• "Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture)" Neil Gaiman;
• "In the Month of Athyr" Elizabeth Hand.

Not an explicitly feminist anthology, but most of the stories deal in some manner of with constructions of gender and sex. (For the most part, not explicitly sexual, either; this is not a book of erotica/porn.) Maybe half the stories deal with constructions of prostitution, slavery, and exploitation of Third World people. The overall quality of this anthology is very good; almost all the stories were excellent.