Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements      viiiIntroduction: Sexing Science FictionMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      PART ONE : ALIENThe Future, in Bed with the Past: Miscegenation in Science Fiction Film and TelevisionCYNTHIA J. MILLER and A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER      Alienating Sex: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Works of Octavia ButlerANCA ROSU      “We pair off ! One man, one woman”: The Heterosexual Imperative in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis TrilogyECHO E. SAVAGE      Love at First Contact: Sex, Race and Colonial Fantasy in Star Trek: First ContactALLISON WHITNEY      “They teach you that in Whore Academy?” A Quantitative Examination of Sex and Sex Workers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and DollhouseHEATHER M. PORTER      The Evil Wet Nurse: Preoedipal Development and Primo Levi’s Science FictionROBERT C. PIRRO      PART TWO : TECHNOPatriarchy, Paternity and Papas: Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Science FictionERIN GRAYSON SAPP      “I have worked hard at her head and brain”: Dr. Moreau and the New WomanTHOMAS G. COLE II      “Are we not men?” Degeneration, Future-Sex and The Time MachineLARRY T. SHILLOCK      Space Apes Want Our Women! Primate Lust in American Science FictionMATTHEW H. HERSCH      Technology as a Nexus for Homoerotic Desire in Boys’ Series BooksMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      (Inter)Mediated Sexuality in the Science Fiction of J. G. BallardCLARE PARODY      Human, Alien, Techno—What Next? Evolutionary Psychology, Science Fiction andSHERRY GINN      Conclusion: Sexing Science Fiction, Take TwoSHERRY GINN      About the Contributors      Index

Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements      viiiIntroduction: Sexing Science FictionMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      PART ONE : ALIENThe Future, in Bed with the Past: Miscegenation in Science Fiction Film and TelevisionCYNTHIA J. MILLER and A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER      Alienating Sex: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Works of Octavia ButlerANCA ROSU      “We pair off ! One man, one woman”: The Heterosexual Imperative in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis TrilogyECHO E. SAVAGE      Love at First Contact: Sex, Race and Colonial Fantasy in Star Trek: First ContactALLISON WHITNEY      “They teach you that in Whore Academy?” A Quantitative Examination of Sex and Sex Workers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and DollhouseHEATHER M. PORTER      The Evil Wet Nurse: Preoedipal Development and Primo Levi’s Science FictionROBERT C. PIRRO      PART TWO : TECHNOPatriarchy, Paternity and Papas: Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Science FictionERIN GRAYSON SAPP      “I have worked hard at her head and brain”: Dr. Moreau and the New WomanTHOMAS G. COLE II      “Are we not men?” Degeneration, Future-Sex and The Time MachineLARRY T. SHILLOCK      Space Apes Want Our Women! Primate Lust in American Science FictionMATTHEW H. HERSCH      Technology as a Nexus for Homoerotic Desire in Boys’ Series BooksMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      (Inter)Mediated Sexuality in the Science Fiction of J. G. BallardCLARE PARODY      Human, Alien, Techno—What Next? Evolutionary Psychology, Science Fiction andSHERRY GINN      Conclusion: Sexing Science Fiction, Take TwoSHERRY GINN      About the Contributors      Index

Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements      viiiIntroduction: Sexing Science FictionMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      PART ONE : ALIENThe Future, in Bed with the Past: Miscegenation in Science Fiction Film and TelevisionCYNTHIA J. MILLER and A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER      Alienating Sex: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Works of Octavia ButlerANCA ROSU      “We pair off ! One man, one woman”: The Heterosexual Imperative in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis TrilogyECHO E. SAVAGE      Love at First Contact: Sex, Race and Colonial Fantasy in Star Trek: First ContactALLISON WHITNEY      “They teach you that in Whore Academy?” A Quantitative Examination of Sex and Sex Workers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and DollhouseHEATHER M. PORTER      The Evil Wet Nurse: Preoedipal Development and Primo Levi’s Science FictionROBERT C. PIRRO      PART TWO : TECHNOPatriarchy, Paternity and Papas: Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Science FictionERIN GRAYSON SAPP      “I have worked hard at her head and brain”: Dr. Moreau and the New WomanTHOMAS G. COLE II      “Are we not men?” Degeneration, Future-Sex and The Time MachineLARRY T. SHILLOCK      Space Apes Want Our Women! Primate Lust in American Science FictionMATTHEW H. HERSCH      Technology as a Nexus for Homoerotic Desire in Boys’ Series BooksMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      (Inter)Mediated Sexuality in the Science Fiction of J. G. BallardCLARE PARODY      Human, Alien, Techno—What Next? Evolutionary Psychology, Science Fiction andSHERRY GINN      Conclusion: Sexing Science Fiction, Take TwoSHERRY GINN      About the Contributors      Index