It's always like you learn the author of "Eons of the Giants", and epic space opera that analyzes imperialism and humanity, also wrote some book called "The Fertility of Martians" about a horny alien who comes to earth and fucks a dude who looks like the author when he was 25.
Anyway to keep this tradition alive I've decided to write some smut for fun concurrently with trying to write my SciFi magnum opus.
A lot of my favorites from when I was younger were very reactionary and misogynistic on second reading. Esp. Richard Powers (his book for mega-fans 'Galatea 2.0' is auto-fiction about stalking a grad student), the freak who wrote 'The Water Knife', and Neil Stephenson. Lots of very gross portrayals of women and gratuitous sexual violence.
I think it's just a product of the times. If porn bad been more accessible they probably wouldn't have written 150 thousand words about having sex with a green person
Then again Cameron still did his thing
If porn had been more accessible they probably wouldn't have written 150 thousand words about having sex with a green person
There are only so many ways to have sex with a green person, but no limits to the variety of backdrops and contexts seasoning the seduction. How many erotic fanfics have been written precisely because worldbuilding and plot setups became foreplay to the reader, regardless of author intent? There will always be a place for implicit erotica to match the explicit
Almost all of them have some pretty horny parts. I can remember some pretty explicit scenes in The Dispossessed.
True maybe less of a horny magnum opus but liberal sexuality throughout.
The world may be genderless in Left Hand of Darkness but it's not sexless that's for sure.
See I'm going to get around this by putting my fetish directly into my masterpiece
People these days expect pretty strict separation of horny content from serious content.
My clown porn entitled Why So Deeply Unserious will be the Odyssey of the modern age
I blame Gentry Lee. His collaborations with Clarke were way hornier than anything Clarke himself wrote solo.
Some authors managed both in the same book (looking at you, Dan Simmons)
I immediately thought of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves.
I heard that one was because his editor demanded a book with some sex in it and he did some malicious compliance
Parallel universe aliens having weird puddle sex because some of them are immaterial is not the weirdest thing I've seen tbh
Sam Delany's sci-fi is horny as a baseline, but then he wrote Phallos. He wrote Phallos way later than a lot of his sci fi tho.
