title: Mythical Sex in Marrakesh: A Five-Movement Symphony
author: Mark sutherland Simpson
description: "Provocative, daring, brilliantly inspired, completely poignant, this Symphony in Five-Movements is an absolute treasure, something that will someday be taught in every classroom in North America," Heidi Rosenblatt.
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  BILL The Galactic Hero By
  
  
  Harry Harrison
  
  
  ©1965
  
  
  I
  
  
  Bill never realized that sex was the cause of it all. If the sun that morning
  had not been burning so warmly in the brassy sky of Phigerinadon II, and if he
  had not glimpsed the sugar-white and wine-barrel-wide backside of Inga-Maria
  Calyphigia, while she bathed in the stream, he might have paid more attention
  to his plowing than to the burning pressures of heterosexuality and would have
  driven his furrow to the far side of the hill before the seductive music
  sounded along the road. He might never have heard it, and his life would have
  been very, very different. But he did hear it and dropped the handles of the
  plow that was plugged into the robomule, turned, and gaped.
  
  
  It was indeed a fabulous sight. Leading the parade was a one-robot band,
  twelve feet high and splendid in its great black busby that concealed the hi-
  fi speakers. The golden pillars of its legs stamped forward as its thirty
  articulated arms