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Richard Klibaner's avatar

So far as I remember, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel novels are pretty much devoid of sex, possibly because the time and places visited are so often insalubrious.

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Adam Roberts's avatar

I've read "Doomsday Book" and 'having sex with plague raddled Englishfolk' is, I agree, not the main focus of that book. I haven't read "To Say Nothing of the Dog", so don't know, but did read her Blitz novels and again the romance element is downplayed.

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Richard Klibaner's avatar

I believe in "To Say Nothing of the Dog" there is a bit of unrequited lust.

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Mark Phillips's avatar

Let us not forget Robert A Heinlein’s All You Zombies in which an Intersex man goes back in time before his gender reassignment operation and impregnates himself ( or should that be herself?)

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Adam Roberts's avatar

Quite right! I should have included that.

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Paul Jonas's avatar

Thank you for pointing out this unsavoury aspect of time travel stories. I read Michael Moorcock’s Behold The Man where the protagonist travels back in time to find Jesus, finds him to be mentally disabled and has sex with Mary and takes up the role of messiah himself. Talk about a messiah complex!

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Adam Roberts's avatar

Ah yes: I could have included Moorcock's novel.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

A unique interpretation.

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