The Indian author and mathematics professor Manil Suri has had the honour of picking up the 2013 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his book The City of Devi. The judges were particularly tittilated by a sex scene involving the three main characters.

Surely supernovas explode that instant, somewhere, in some galaxy. The hut vanishes, and with it the sea and the sands – only Karun’s body, locked with mine, remains. We streak like superheroes past suns and solar systems, we dive through shoals of quarks and atomic nuclei. In celebration of our breakthrough fourth star, statisticians the world over rejoice.

Gotta to love it!