Download or read book Sextopia written by Cecilia Tan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold venture into the realm of futuristic erotica, eleven gifted sex-writers offer sizzling, sharp stories about the intersection of the sexual and the societal. Delving into the way in which the construction of a utopia would reconstruct sexual practice, these authors have stretched the limits of their imagination to create an enticing and thought-provoking range of erotic possibilities. Features M Christian, Eric Del Carlo, Catherine Asaro and many more esteemed authors.

Download or read book Fiery Luna written by Allison West and published by Slow Burn Publishing. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who doesn't love a sexy, dominant fireman? After a tough breakup, Luna Mae decides she needs a change. From the southern plains of South Dakota, Luna books a hotel room and spa package at the prestigious Sterling Hotel in Times Square. Looking forward to a relaxing getaway, Luna's fun is spoiled the moment handsome fireman Jules Sinclair knocks on her door ordering an evacuation. Wearing nothing but a towel, she slams the door in his face, unwilling to leave just yet. Forced from the hotel as an explosion rocks the seventh floor, Luna has managed to secure her dress but no panties as the handsome fireman rescues her from the burning flames. With no friends in the city and her belongings destroyed, she has nowhere else to go. Jules invites Luna to the fire station, offering her clothes, shelter, and even a hard spanking for dismissing his order to evacuate. Will she learn to submit to Jules, or is the heat just too much? This steamy contemporary romance was previously published as Fire Licked.

Download or read book Embassy Wife written by Katie Crouch and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A smart, sparkling novel that is one part social satire, one part travelogue . . . Comical and cool.” —Oprah Daily In Katie Crouch's thrilling novel Embassy Wife, two women abroad search for the truth about their husbands—and their country. Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they’re settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won’t stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you’re not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs.

Download or read book Trash Sex Magic written by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night's Dream transported to the woods of Illinois.

Download or read book Killer Tracks written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal tracks, railroad tracks, there are many and various interpretations of the word and Thirteen's talented authors have explored them in their inimitable way, to bring you a diverse set of stories. Walk with them in the tracks they have created and see what horrors, gore and surprises await you...

Download or read book Spherical Harmonic written by Catherine Asaro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-14 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Asaro is a popular SF writer, combining her diverse talents to blend hard science fiction and heartrending romance into a sweeping epic known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire. This is her trademark series. Ever since Primary Inversion, her very first novel, this series has continued to grow, building a significant readership and receiving widespread praise. All of Asaro's considerable talent is on display in Spherical Harmonic, the direct sequel to The Radiant Seas. Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet they must move quickly if they are reassume their rightful place as rulers of Skolia.

Download or read book Queer Universes written by Wendy G. Pearson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson's award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about 'sextrapolation' in New Wave science fiction, 'stray penetration' in William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge.

Download or read book Fool s Gold written by L. Sargisson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future.

Download or read book Imagined Theatres written by Daniel Sack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: In what way is writing itself a performance? How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? Are we not always imagining theatres when we read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we are seeing?

Download or read book Like a Long Road Home written by Circlet Press and published by Circlet Press. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy/romance/erotica. Travel can be dangerous, but that danger does funny things to people. Sometimes the journey brings out a romantic spark that's been there all along. Sometimes meeting a stranger leads to unexpected passion. These four stories explore the dangerously enticing side of perilous travel. Warning: Explicit Sex. With Vinnie Tesla, Sunny Moraine, Elizabeth Coldwell, LA Mistral.

Download or read book Fantastic Erotica written by Cecilia Tan and published by Circlet Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chosen by popular vote from among all the stories published by Circlet from 2008 to the present"-- P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book The Quantum Rose written by Catherine Asaro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Adventure in the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into utter chaos. "Fans of futuristic romance will revel in the delights of a top notch romantic adventure set against an impeccably crafted, richly imagined background. . . . Connoisseurs of good science writing, vivid imagery and powerful emotional intensity are in for a real treat."-Romantic Times (4 1/2 stars)

Download or read book Skyfall written by Catherine Asaro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Skyfall' goes back to the beginning, to the rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire."--Back cover.

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Download or read book Sexploration written by Jane Bogart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what your age, culture, sexual orientation, or gender, a satisfying sexual relationship is a valued and important aspect of your quality of life. However, research shows that Americans are not having the best sex that we can have. Unrealistic expectations paired with a general inability or discomfort with talking about sex contributes to this “lack of good sex.” According to one recent survey, almost 95% of Americans have difficulty when it comes to talking about “what I want sexually” especially if they are talking directly to their sexual partner. In this tantalizing and technical guide, “Sexpert” Jane Bogart helps readers understand their own preferences and desires by allowing them to explore their own sexual history and helping them define where they’d like to go in the future. She helps readers figure out how much they really know and don’t know about sex to begin with, teaches them how to get in touch with their sensual side and how to communicate their desires to their sexual partners. With testimonies from all different kinds of people, old and young, this books explores what turns people on, what turns people off, and more importantly, what turns you on and off and why. Naughty, fun, and infallible, it’s fit for all ages, whether you’re a seasoned pro, or new to the game.

Download or read book Snake s Hands written by Alice K. Turner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, poetic, a master of fantastic symbolism and emotional portraiture, John Crowley is one of the finest contemporary American novelists. As Harold Bloom writes in his Preface to this book, "Crowley writes so magnificently that only a handful of living writers can equal him as a stylist . . . Of novelists, only Philip Roth consistently writes on Crowley's level." Engine Summer; Little, Big; Aegypt; Great Work of Time; The Translator: these are only the highlights of a twenty-five year literary career of extraordinary depth and eloquence. Yet Crowley has not been the subject of a full-length critical study until now; Snake's-Hands remedies this lack, in full. In Snake's-Hands, Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi assemble a host of brilliant essays on the fiction of John Crowley, by such eminent writers and critics as John Clute, Thomas M. Disch, James Hynes, Brian Attebery, and Bill Sheehan. Explore with them Crowley's fantasticated retellings of the Hundred Years' War and of innumerable beast fables; his subtle rendering of the bucolic decline of Earth; his astonishing, multi-leveled vision of the fairylands deep within mundane reality; his British Empire upon which the sun, heartbreakingly, never can set; his glowing, brooding trio of Hermetic masterpieces; his tale of poetry at war with nuclear annihilation. Wonders of artistry, the artistry of wonder: Crowley is a genius, and Snake's-Hands demonstrates this alluringly, in a potent mosaic of insights. Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley is the essential guide to the work of a great writer, and a landmark of criticism in its own right.

Download or read book Sexcrime written by Cecilia Tan and published by Circlet Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman performs S/M on stage in a future where all sensual pain must be faked. A man searches for a secret sex speakeasy' in a high tech city. An assassin finds herself irresistibly attracted to her victim. An artist's model poses in a world where erotic expression is taboo. Taking its title from Orwell's '1984,' this collection explores the erotic heat and intensity that can come from love under repressive conditions. In 12 futuristic stories, it explores and celebrates the ways in which underground love and subversive sex can bring alive forbidden pleasures.'