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Being your place on the web to make Pat feel all warm and snuggly... or just a place to type random text... ANYTHING to get those badgers, mushrooms and African snakes out of my head!
Monday, February 27, 2006
for Riz
Since Riz threatened to script an RSS feed just to get my blogs, I feel sufficiently guilted into turning my mind back to blogging again.
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If I ever A) get really old and B) become a famous sci fi writer -- PLEASE shoot me if I ever start putting sex scenes in my supposedly hard SF writing. From Greg Bear to Frederik Pohl to any other many-genarian who didn't get his rocks sufficiently off in early years -- don't tell us about horny aliens and spacefarers! (Unless it is very important to the plot... in which case I probably wont pick the book up anyway.)
From Pohl's recent "The Boy Who Would Live Forever":
"It is a known fact that the Heechee are reaonably like humans in that, now and then, some of them like certain sexual practices that others might conceivably describe as "kinky". Not that kinky though. Very few Heechee males were perverted enough to desire intercourse with a female who wasn't in estrus."
And then a chapter later, they do it. In detail.
Pat.
PS- for the past month I have been quite successfully (4 out of 4 published/performed pieces!) writing for my political satire group -- Big News -- which is why I have not been as prolific on my blog.
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If I ever A) get really old and B) become a famous sci fi writer -- PLEASE shoot me if I ever start putting sex scenes in my supposedly hard SF writing. From Greg Bear to Frederik Pohl to any other many-genarian who didn't get his rocks sufficiently off in early years -- don't tell us about horny aliens and spacefarers! (Unless it is very important to the plot... in which case I probably wont pick the book up anyway.)
From Pohl's recent "The Boy Who Would Live Forever":
"It is a known fact that the Heechee are reaonably like humans in that, now and then, some of them like certain sexual practices that others might conceivably describe as "kinky". Not that kinky though. Very few Heechee males were perverted enough to desire intercourse with a female who wasn't in estrus."
And then a chapter later, they do it. In detail.
Pat.
PS- for the past month I have been quite successfully (4 out of 4 published/performed pieces!) writing for my political satire group -- Big News -- which is why I have not been as prolific on my blog.
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