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Annalee Newitz on 'The Terraformers' and future cities

Fiction Science

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Sex Scenes in a Novel

"I really love having romance in my stories and these are characters who live in a culture which doesn't have a ton of taboos against sex so when people are interested in each other they might hook up," she says. "For me sex is a way of just expressing joy and I think that when you can have two characters just enjoying each other or in one case you know enjoying being in a giant room full of people who are all cheering"

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