The "Imagination" stories involved a
tweak to reality. These stories involve a lot more than a tweak. These
worlds are pretty different from ours -- there is still sex, in one
form or another. Plenty creative, if you're up for different worlds.
The Centaurots Teach Multiplication (46K): Benign alien conquerors want
to spread humans throughout the galaxies -- fast. They tweak us a
little so we can be fruitful and multiply, as never before.
Wearing Little Wives (25K): In a world otherwise much like ours, girls
from a very young age crave and need a penis inside them most of the
time so they do not lose their female nature and become neuters.
The Water's Edge (38K): In a stone age setting, men are of the land,
women of the sea. But when they meet for sex, their minds merge. When a
boy or girl comes of age, there are no more secrets. One young man has
a terrible secret, and survives after his successful quest to find a
young woman with a secret just as terrible.
To Have And to Hold (26K): Chrissy gets married and the story follows
the happy couple through life. In this world men have been genetically
engineered to be radically different -- almost sexual parasites. A
reflection on the inherent nature of men and women.
Pussy Mouse (55K): Mr. Williams wants to experience the world from the
perspective of a spot inside a girl's panties. He offers 13-year-old
Katy a very special mouse, and she finds he wants to become her
intimate friend. More shocking is that she lets him -- and loves it.
At Cross Purposes (127K, Chapters 12): The fertile men are hulking
sadists, and the fertile women are frigid but focused on their babies.
An infertile male form desires no form of sex other than jerking off,
but their semen has vital properties. An infertile form of woman runs
the world, but only with the sexual help of both forms of males. It is
all mixed up! Then one day, little Jessica has a naughty idea that
leads the society to more harmonious sex.
Well Endowed (4K): "A guy has a huge cock and a girl loves it." A
parody of the exaggeration and the writing style in many erotic stories.
I remember the stories above fondly. The ones below this point are ones
I don't think about so much any more -- they're pretty good, I think,
but I'm distant from the Sterling who wrote them.
Gas for Girls
(44K): As an installation of genetic performance art, a scientist
creates a world where from birth girls need regular doses of semen in
their vaginas to stay healthy. Men were given extra stamina and semen
production to meet the need. These are the stories of a few people from
this world of incessant man-girl sex.
Dead Men, Dumb Boys (44K): In a worldwide calamity, all the men die and
all the boys become profoundly retarded. There's only one thing they're
interested in any more, an interest that awakens at puberty. Women
struggle to adjust.
Dead Women, Dumb Girls (58K): In a worldwide calamity, all the women
die and the girls become profoundly retarded. They still respond
sexually, however, and it is one of the few joys they have in life. Men
find they can deal.
Breasts Haven't Been Invented (24K): In a species much like ours, there
are no breasts and no placentas. Babies are nourished, before and after
birth, by that other milky fluid the human species produces.
Cherishing the Unmerged Mind (44K): Many thinkers have considered what
might happen if human consciousness merged into a single whole. But
what would happen if only 3/4 merged, and the other 1/4 couldn't
participate? The 3/4 cherishes the 1/4 who cannot read minds and
strives for their happiness, self-fulfillment -- and pleasure.
Maximizing Fitness (40K): Don't read this; you won't like it. Well, a
few people might. It's pretty cerebral and there's no dialog to speak
of. A land of islands has a slightly different species of humans. There
are only a few men, and they engage in more matter-of-fact killing than
sex to further their Darwinian genetic fitness. I trace the life of the
man Buck and explore in detail why he does what he does -- and why the
females do what they do.
Agony With a Purpose (40K): Either women will experience agony during
intercourse or else humanity will go extinct.
Bulls And Nymphs (37K): Following a fertility crisis, boys and girls
who want to reproduce choose to become bulls and nymphs -- but at a
terrible cost.