Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines

"Cecilia Tan need[s] to be praised for [her] dedication to the cause of erotica in speculative fiction...The imaginative breadth of speculative fiction gives its writers the chance to be among the forerunners in an exciting and very necessary movement."

Every form of technology humankind has invented has been co-opted for two uses: warfare and getting off. Electricity, internal combustion, the telephone, the Internet there's no reason to think this trend will stop as we move into the future of nanotechnology, neuroscience, and space travel. However, whether the future is a Gernsbackian vision of flying cars and cloud cities, or a gritty gray cyberpunk world, there is always a need for sex. Award-winning authors such as Joe Haldeman, Nalo Hopkinson, and Catherine Asaro are among the leading lights of science fiction and erotica who contribute to this book, as well as Paul DiFilippo, Sarah Micklem, Bruce Sterling, M. Christian, Thomas S. Roche, Saachi Green, and many others.