Now available in ebook for the first time, 18 short stories of crackling erotic futures by the master of erotic voice, M. Christian. Men, women, hackers, derelicts, enforcers, hustlers, and whores in every combination inhabit the streets and beds and back alleys of Christian's imagination. This is erotic science fiction at its best.
M. Christian’s stories squat at the intersection of Primal Urges Avenue and Hi-Tech Parkway like a feral-eyed, half-naked Karen Black leering and stabbing her fractal machete into the tarmac. Truly an author for our post-everything 21st century.
—Paul Di Filippo, author of the Steampunk Trilogy
When I pick up a book by M. Christian, I know that I’ll be surprised and delighted. Whether he’s targeting horror, thriller, sci-fi or erotica genres, or some creative mixture, he never fails to deliver an original perspective.
—Lisabet Sarai, author of Incognito and Fire
M. Christian is one hell of a writer. He paints his universes and characters in full, living color, thrills the reader with non-stop action. A no-holds-barred storyteller, he embraces his reader at the start and doesn’t let go until long after the end.
—Mari Adkins, Apex Publications contributing editor
M. Christian is the chameleon of modern erotica. One day punk, another romantic; one day straight, another totally perverse and polyamorous. But always sexy and gripping.
—Maxim Jakubowksi, editor of the Mammoth Book of Erotica series
M.Christian is an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 300 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and web sites. He is the editor of 20 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others. He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, and Coming Together: M.Christian; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, and Painted Doll.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Kit O'Connell
Introduction to the 2003 Edition by Cecilia Tan
State
Bluebelle
Winged Memory
Eulogy
Butterflie$
Everything But the Smell of Lilies
Fully Accessorized, Baby
The New Motor
Guernica
Hackwork
Heartbreaker
Switch
InterCore
Technophile
Skin-Effect
Sight
The Show
Thin Dog
The Bachelor Machine
Appendix A
Appendix B