Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction is a 1972 anthology edited by Thomas N. Scortia.

This anthology is focused on sex and science fiction, and not necessarily from a feminist perspective. Most of the stories, in fact, say either nothing, or nothing good, about human gender relations. Two women authors in the entire anthology.

Editions

• 1972: Random House, New York.

Contents

• Introduction: "Where Have All The Deflowerers Gone?" by Thomas N. Scortia; Santa Clara, California, March 5, 1972

Part One: Coming of Age

• "Push No More" by Robert Silverberg;
• "Genetic Faux Pas" by Harvey L. Bilker;
• "First Love, First Fear" by George Zebrowski

Part Two: Toujours Gay

• "The World Well Lost" by Theodore Sturgeon;
• "Do Androids Dream of Electric Love?" by Walt Leibscher;
• "Dinner at Helen's" by William Carlson

Part Three: You Only Hurt the One You Love

• "The Criminal" by Joe Gores;
• "The Mechanical Sweetheart" by Gerald Arthur Alper;
• "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro;
• "I'm With You In Rockland" by Jack M. Dann

Part Four: Strange Matings

• "Dr. Birdmouse" by Reginald Bretnor;
• "Looking-Glass Sea" by Laurence Yep;
• "What About Us Grils?" by Mel Gilden

Part Five: The Old-Fashioned Way?

• "Lambeth Blossom" by Brian W. Aldiss;
• "The Widening Circle" by Richard McCloud;
• "The Icebox Blonde" by Thomas N. Scortia;
• "Khartoum: A Prose Limerick" by Anthony Boucher

Part Six: A Mother's Love:

• "Mother" by Philip Jose Farmer;
• "The Daughter of the Tree" by Miriam Allen DeFord