title: Outer Desires
author: Allen, Ford
description: The saga of sex among the stars, with alien species, androids and AIs reaches its monumental climax! Planetary archaeologists, Aliis and Dree, have learned things about life, love, sex and themselves they never dreamed of, courtesy an assortment of philosophic, spiritual and highly horny androids and intelligent alien species created to populate a zillionaire's pleasure planet, then abandoned for thirty thousand years. Now they are ready to leave the planet accompanied by the thirty thousand year-old android that has become the High-Potentate of the cult of eros that is responsible for creating the harmony behind the planet-wide peaceful co-existence and sexual harmony of so many different kinds of sentient creatures.
  But one more type of sentient creature wants in on the action, though it has no physical body J(AI)' wants in on the action. Before they can leave orbit, the Artificial Intelligences will want to be let in on this new sexual and social concord. But AIs can't have sex, can they? Get ready for close encounters of the fifth kind!
  Cover art: Joel Wideman