http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/ A Life In Science Fiction Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-299 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:21:47 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-299 Just did, and that’s funny stuff.

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-298 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:32:06 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-298 You’re right, Kate, the alien-human sex in Avatar is pretty vanilla.Then again, I defy you to Google “Na’vi sex.”

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-297 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:22:47 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/08/25/strange_relations/#comment-297 I absolutely agree that “it” is important, and I think your assessment of how sex is at the heart of the way we “other” others (ha!) is apt.I don’t think we should jump from Farmer to Avatar and conclude that we’re less prude these days, though. The Avatar alien is humanoid. (And lithe, and lovely in a very unchallenging, human way.) Farmer’s plants and worms still hold up as tests of the edge, I think.Have you read _The Child Garden_ by Geoff Ryman? It’s awesome! It asks some of these questions in a different way, and I think that the pilot of the biotech spaceship is a nod to Farmer’s Ernie Fetts.

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