The Big Space Fuck

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. "The Big Space Fuck." Again, Dangerous Visions. Harlan Ellison, editor. New York City: Doubleday, 1972. Reprinted Cybersex. For other reprints, reissues, and translations, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of January 2023, here.[1]

More important as a satiric environmental dystopia/disaster story, but see for "a rocket ship with eight-hundred pounds of freeze-dried jizzum," i.e., human male ejaculate/semen (with "jizzum" variously spelled), "in its nose [....] to be fired at the Andromeda Galaxy, two-million light years away. The ship was named the Arthur C. Clarke, in honor of a famous space pioneer" (Cybersex p. 69).

Cf. and contrast more realistic use of the motif in "Manseed" and the works cross-referenced there, and the more darkly satiric ... climax of The Iron Dream.

RDE, finishing, 26Jan23