Sextopia — Cecilia Tan

Sir Thomas More coined the term Utopia and spawned the literary genre of utopian fiction, where each writer envisions his or her perfect society. Early utopian writers dreamed up alternate systems of government, economics, religion, family structure, and so on. But few followed their visions into the bedroom until the 1970s when writers like Samuel R. Delany in Triton or Joanna Russ in The Female Man seriously considered the impact of society on the sexual lives of the citizens, and vice versa.

Now Circlet Press brings its uniquely erotic treatment of speculative fiction to the utopian exercise. These authors arouse, stimulate, and provoke in more ways than one, with stories that interweave sexual themes, desire, and love with imaginings of perfect (and not-so-perfect) worlds. Remember, one person's perfect world is another person's hell.