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addresses the reader directly, subverting expectations by revealing that Dora is genetically male but was made female shortly after conception because genetic analysis showed that she would prefer that outcome. Don is described as handsome and bronze, but is revealed to be a partial cyborg who has a metal radiation shield over his entire body to protect him while helping to pilot a starship. Dora for her part likes being semi-aquatic, so she had gills installed. The two get married, exchange personality information, and part forever. They can thus experience virtual sex with each other and with any number of other lovers.
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216:"The Day the Martians Came" is a short piece about men in a bar making up jokes about the newly discovered Martians, who are pathetic primitive beings. All are re-workings of old racial jokes. Somebody suggests that discovering the Martians would not matter to anybody, but the black bartender responds that it might matter a lot to people like him.
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170:"Schematic Man" (1968)
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502:The Starchild Trilogy
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176:"Making Love" (1966)
173:"Small Lords" (1956)
161:"Day Million" (1966)
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