David Lumb is a New York City–based freelance journalist who writes about tech, culture, and gaming. He knows it’s impossible to find a good burrito in the city that matches his Southern California–grown tastes, but darn if he doesn’t keep trying. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

David Lumb

Riding the Edge: Cecil Castellucci on Her Graphic Novel “Soupy Leaves Home”

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Karen Yescavage is a social and personality psychologist at Colorado State University – Pueblo. She has been a teacher, sex researcher, and activist for over 20 years. She has researched and written about perpetrators of sexual aggression, reasons for pretending orgasms, bisexual representations in the media, bisexual workplace discrimination, transgender stigma and experiences, and the future of sex, speculating on topics such as the search for a gay gene and genetic engineering, human-robot relations, off-planet sex and future colonization, and recent narratives of human-alien hybridization.

Karen Yescavage

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English at UC Irvine. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 16 books, including&nbsp;Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship&nbsp;(2016) and a critical memoir,&nbsp;Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology&nbsp;(2017), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He can be reached though his website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.the-blank-page.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://www.the-blank-page.com/</a>.

Jonathan Alexander

PART FOUR of Imagining Alien Sex: Preparing for the Alien

PART ONE of Imagining Alien Sex: From Ming the Merciless to "The Lovers"

David Lumb is a New York City–based freelance journalist who writes about tech, culture, and gaming. He knows it’s impossible to find a good burrito in the city that matches his Southern California–grown tastes, but darn if he doesn’t keep trying. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.