Comments on: The Girls From Planet 5

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:52:32 +0000

Oblique references to Cowchip Troopers (which is brilliant, btw) not withstanding, Ann, based on this short snippet, is, despite her secondary role as frank’s wife, a very Heinline-heroinesque kind of heroine character. Sort of a Friday with spurs. And both cover girls are red heads. Heinline loved redheads. On balance, I prefer the Lancer cover. The Ballantine girl looks too disturbingly much like a cartoonish rendering of a demented high-school-girl. Though the atomic bra is cool – I gotta give you that.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:00:43 +0000

Hey David, thanks for that scan of the original cover. Man, I wish I had THAT copy.

By: Phill Hallam-Baker

Phill Hallam-Baker — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:52:13 +0000

You folk have forever sullied something pure and clean. Whenever I see a young woman so attired my enjoyment will be contaminated by the thought of Mr Doughy Loadpants.

Excuse me while I try to extract my brain from my skull and attempt to wash it.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:20:59 +0000

roac, you are quite correct.

By: roac

roac — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:28:21 +0000

By the way -- Cowship Troopers is great, but Cowchip Troopers would be a modest but real improvement, in my view.

By: roac

roac — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23:19 +0000

I never heard of Richard Wilson, but Wikipedia says he actually won a Nebula in 1969. (Not for this book, however.)

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:03:33 +0000

belle, and this adds new flexibility in sizing – instead of A, B,…, we have from Hydrogen to (whatever the heaviest element is). Lots of sizes!

By: belle le triste

belle le triste — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:39:05 +0000

15: atoms make great spacebras!

By: Phill Hallam-Baker

Phill Hallam-Baker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:32:14 +0000

A vision just popped into my head of Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin &ct dressed up in Valkrie outfits designed by Larry Flynt – leather bikinis with highly polished stainless steel cups and crotch-guard inserts.

Just as I was starting to think that this might not be so bad after all, Jonah Goldberg appears, dressed in the same outfit, it goes downhill from there.

By: David

David — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:19:19 +0000

Indeed, a long held fantasy of mine has been to return as co-commander of an Intergalactic Warship and cover the entire state of Texas to a uniform depth of six feet of fried oatmeal.

By: David

David — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:15:20 +0000

I prefer the original pb cover, by the great Richard Powers:
http://members.cox.net/sjrohde6/images/books_w/wilson_girls_bal117.jpg

Anyone have a spare copy kicking around I’d love it for my collection.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:44:04 +0000

“Apparently no-one regrets Alexandria VA, crushed by the flying saucer.”

Sorry, Jim, omelettes and broken eggs and all that. I’m sure you understand and won’t take it amiss.

By: jholbo

jholbo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:28:03 +0000

It’s not Woody Allen-ish in the slightest. That part is sheer false advertising. The basic problem is that the joke depends on the reader finding feminism to be, not so much wrong as a bit of a joke that everyone knows is, in some important but unspecified way, absurd. It’s more Saki-esque, then:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/sk-hermann.html

By: Hermenauta

Hermenauta — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:57:37 +0000

You obviously forgot that Leftism weaks the fibre of men:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-feminization-of-the-american-left-7348

That´s my bet: the lyru were in fact male metrossexual socialists.

By: belle le triste

belle le triste — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:51:03 +0000

ok it’s, woody allen-ish, but his later, unfunny ones