a lot of my friends ask me about the alien parties i used to go to when i lived in tranquility dome on luna. i don't like to talk about it much because if i tell someone how truly strange it was they start backing away, but let me give you a little glimpse of the future.

tranquility dome was colonized by the usual misfits & dreamers who couldn't wait to get off the earth. they were soon visited by a number of alien races, who found the dome to be a much safer place to visit than earth. the earth colonists were much more open to the strangeness of alien visitors than the folks back home, so soon the aliens were opening businesses & moving there. they installed amazing transportation systems & ultratech offices & dwellings. there was a dimensional viewport, transgalactic communication, interplanetary tourism & short-hop teleportation.

i ended up there because they liked my music there & i could get gigs. the exotic & incredibly imaginative music of the alien artists really opened my mind & i was free to be as experimental as i wished. it was a weird scene @ the eclipse nectarbar where i played a lot, with aliens from our solar system mixing with beings from altair, procyon & some real weirdos from "the quasar zone" wherever that is, but it was immensely liberating once i got used to it. all of them were humanoids of various colors & variations, the reptilians & insectoids tended to stay away, so they were all genetically compatible & a truly cosmopolitan scene developed there. i would get invited to some surreal parties after my sets @ the eclipse nectarbar.

so, let me see how i can explain this without getting people upset. i am only reporting what i have seen & been around, not advocating that anybody do this. uh, the aspect of dome society that would really shock people fresh off the cargo rocket from earth would be the sex. you see, only on earth is sex repressed & manipulated as a commodity, with market forces like scarcity used to drive up prices. aliens generally respect pair bonds more than earth people do, but among beings with no pair bond singles are likely to be much more spontaneous, open & sensuously, playfully sexy. so, around tranquility dome you would always see a lot of sex going on in public, sometimes with passers-by getting involved. the emigrants who colonized the crater were bohemian creatives anyway so that is how their society evolved. i admit i found it distracting @ first, it's hard to think about anything but sex in a climate like that, but that was just the transition stage from the repressed environment.

so, the parties were phantasmagoric. all of these incredibly colorful beings in great shape because these were the pioneers on the fringe. gravity on luna is only a sixth of earth grav so passionate activities like dancing & sex are likely to involve a ricochet off the ceiling & bouncing off the walls. of course dwellings are padded, ceilings with soft transparent skylights. so--music would be thumping & popping, multicolored beings (some with antennas or eyestalks, some with 6 limbs, one with transparent skin. . .) dancing according to their strange musculature (some have joints that swing both ways, some long retractable necks, some tripod legs) & often combining into graceful adaptations or contorted attempts at sex. video went out on the net. it was a wild scene.

on top of all that i was friends with the neptunian chicks who ran the club where i played. as i have written elsewhere, neptunians are sex artists & can give orgasms @ a distance by stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain telekinetically. neptunians are exhibitionists, nothing turns them on like turning somebody else on. their beds are like little arenas surrounded by lights, cameras, mirrors, props & spectator seating. a neptune woman can enter into your nervous system empathically, morph into the shape that will arouse you the most & act out the scenarios that turn you on most, the ones she reads in your mind. she knows just what you'll like & that's what she does. so, when they get together for sex & invite their friends over--especially their single friends--it is performance art of the wildest type.

the neptunians, jalyn & zarza, were technically my bosses since they hired me to play their club, so i felt i should socialize with them. i did attend some of their parties, mostly as an observer. ahem. @ this point i must decline to be graphic & detailed in my narration, but these women taught me that sex can be beautiful beyond imagination when money is not involved & hangups are gone among single people. i must also admit that i was introduced to dreamflower nectar there, a venusian wine that is very conducive to eroticism. dreamflower nectar was (will be?) very popular in tranquility dome colony, brought there by venusians in trade for cyberchips & music downloads. that's why the place i played was called a nectarbar, everybody there was drinking it. it was illegal for anyone who had the psychological profile of an addictive personality to drink dreamflower nectar, not everybody could handle the stuff it was so good. it lit up all the musical, esthetic & erotic synapses & moved the body to dance. playing the eclipse was a blast, graceful multicolored dancers bouncing off the walls, the earth huge in the sky shining thru the ceiling. so that's where my music was hatched dear friends, out on the fringe colony where the purple chicks with blue hair are having a literary salon & sex party with entrepreneurs & artists from a dozen worlds.