Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Foreword by Robert Silverberg. Copyright © 1996.

Introduction by Ellen Datlow. Copyright © 1996.

“The Reality Trip,” by Robert Silverberg. Copyright © 1970 by Agberg, Ltd. First published in the May-June issue of If.

“The Tattooist,” by Susan Wade. Copyright © 1996.

“Dolly Sodom,” by John Kaiine. Copyright © 1996.

“The Lucifer of Blue,” by Sherry Goldsmith. Copyright © 1996.

“The Queen of the Apocalypse,” by Scott Bradfield. Copyright © 1996.

“Oral,” by Richard Christian Matheson. Copyright © 1996.

“Grand Prix,” by Simon Ings. Copyright © 1993 by Simon Ings. First published in different from in Omni magazine, June 1993 issue. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The House of Mourning,” by Brian Stableford. Copyright © 1996.

“Fetish,” by Martha Soukup. Copyright © 1996.

“Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland,” by Gwyneth Jones. Copyright © 1996.

“The Future of Birds,” by M. M. O’Driscoll. Copyright © 1996.

“Captain China,” by Bruce McAllister. Copyright © 1996.

“Background: The Dream,” by Lisa Tuttle. Copyright © 1996.

“Aye, and Gommorah…” by Samuel R. Delaney. Copyright © 1971 by Samuel R. Delaney. First published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, Doubleday. Appears by permission of the author and his agents, Henry Morrison, Inc.

“Ursus Triad, Later,” by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg. Copyright © 1996.

“Sextraterrestrials,” by Joe Haldeman and Jane Yolen. Copyright © 1996.

“The Dream-Catcher,” by Joyce Carol Oates. Copyright © 1996.

“His Angel,” by Roberta Lannes. Copyright © 1996.

“Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture),” by Neil Gaiman. Copyright © 1996.

“In the Month of Athyr,” by Elizabeth Hand. Copyright © 1993 by Elizabeth Hand. First published in OMNI Best Science Fiction 2, edited by Ellen Datlow; Omni Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

copyright © 1996 by Ellen Datlow

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