OFF: Solaris

[Ted Jackson]

On 9 Jan 2003 at 11:37, Brian Halligan wrote:


> Reminds me somewhat of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness"
> where a human emissary lives with aliens who are asexual until they
> become one sex or the other, based on personal and environmental
> conditions, in order to mate. Mating is also more like in the animal
> kingdom, in that they were not always "in heat." Those who were, were
> considered freaks of nature and perverts.
>
Although some non-human species on earth mate out of season, c.f. dolphins...

theo