Love makes us do strange things, after all. <http://sfsite.com/02a/as313.htm>Link
--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2010/02/arse-elektronika-review-of-do-androids.htm>monochrom at 2/05/2010 01:34:00 PM
Very detailed review of Arse Elektronika anthology
<http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/bookings.html>"Do Androids
Sleep with Electric Sheep?" featured on <http://sfsite.com/>"The SF Site":
Like good science fiction, the material collected in Do Androids
Sleep With Electric Sheep? leaves us with more questions than we
arrived with; if you can stomach the subject matter (which shouldn't
really appall anyone but the most prudish and conservative, to be
honest, though my perceptions may be somewhat skewed), this is prime
fuel for your imaginatory engines. The focal character of James
Tiptree, Jr.'s story "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold
Hill's Side" suggests that, as humans, "we're built to dream
outwards" [pp 239], to project our desire onto "the other", whoever
or whatever it may happen to be. It's an insight that makes more
sense each time you read it, and serves to underline the basic
commonality between sex and science fiction, or indeed art in general
-- they are both ways in which we try to subsume ourselves into (or
control and dominate over) that which we are not.
