of teak). "The New Motor" is erotic historical fiction about the spiritualist John Murray Spear and a mystical machine he is led to build. "Guernica" depicts the behavior of BDSM enthusiasts in a dystopian future where only procreative heterosexual sex is legal. "Hackwork" is about a future where a high-tech form of possession allows a woman to hire her body out for sexual pleasure to clients that will feel her every sensation remotely. "Heartbreaker" is about a cyborg police woman who has a sexual encounter with an equally artificial criminal. In "Switch", a woman is a prostitute for a sex club where the prostitutes' memories are erased at the end of each working day, allowing them to cater to extremely private clientele. "Intercore" is about a futuristic amateur pornography photography session. An example of the humor in the volume occurs in "Technophile," which opens with the line, "I almost lost my virginity at fifteen, but his batteries ran low." It is about a young man whose attempts at his first sexual encounter with another man is made more awkward when he discovers that his lover's cybernetic genitalia is incompatible with the wiring in his home. "Skin-Effect" concerns two android lovers, one of whom is a soldier that has been completely replaced by artificial, robotic parts. See also Sex in science fiction The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (Marcel Duchamp) References Tan, Cecilia and Christian, M. New Bedfellows: Sex & Science Fiction. Retrieved October 28, 2005. O'Connell, Kit, 2004. The SF Site Featured Review: The Bachelor Machine. Retrieved October 28, 2005. Christian, M and Tan, Cecilia (introduction). The Bachelor Machine (2003). Green Candy Press. . External links M. Christian's homepage Book review on Cleansheets.com 2003 short story collections Erotic short stories Science fiction short story collections