Mar 09
Good Show Sir Comments: It’s an astonishingly different science-fiction novel … tell that to the old lady who just moved to another seat on the bus.
Published 1968
Good Show Sir Comments: It’s an astonishingly different science-fiction novel … tell that to the old lady who just moved to another seat on the bus.
Published 1968
March 9th, 2016 at 11:55 am
Original Title: You Sane Man
LIES!
March 9th, 2016 at 12:40 pm
In all the galaxy, one man (hunkbutt) could protect (with a whip) humanity’s heritage from alien savagery (starkers lady).
March 9th, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Would that be a blood orange, then?
March 9th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
BASEMENT DWELLER WORLD
March 9th, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Bad cover on a bad book by a bad author. Needs more red.
March 9th, 2016 at 4:24 pm
I prefer to read John Slater on the train .
March 9th, 2016 at 4:36 pm
@fred – Sounds like a GSS Trifecta. Hat trick?
March 9th, 2016 at 5:55 pm
@Bibliomancer: I thought the woman was the human here. Also, anyone else getting “sexual assault” and “let’s whip dead bodies” vibes here?
March 9th, 2016 at 9:42 pm
When Otis wasn’t looking, Lex Luthor
laid forty lashes on Miss Teschmacher.
That’s as many as four tens.
And that’s terrible.
March 10th, 2016 at 2:51 am
@Perry: you think that’s terrible? Here’s the review at Goodreads.
March 10th, 2016 at 8:01 am
In all the galaxy, one editor could protect humanity’s heritage from alien savagery… but instead he chose to publish this.
March 10th, 2016 at 1:54 pm
Will it be nominated for ‘Most sexist cover of the Year 2016’?
March 10th, 2016 at 4:42 pm
@Elvirae: had it been published in 2016 (and let’s not rule it out, we’re only in March) maybe. But this is from 1968 and, by that year’s standards, it wouldn’t even make the Top Ten.
March 11th, 2016 at 1:46 am
Don’t fret, missus, the space hopper will get him before he gets you!
March 11th, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Tune in on mangy axe savagery from a mean prog artist Y.L. He could eat all the chili!
BLOW OLD ROD
Inciting raffish novelty sanction of incensed eel
in France by Mujer Lea.
Inoi maltreats young Eline.
November 18th, 2016 at 3:26 pm
It’s cute, to look back and think that this cover was a contender for ‘Most Sexist Cover of 2016’.
April 23rd, 2022 at 8:50 pm
Beware books that put a lot of questions to the potential reader on the back cover.
http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2019/06/bloodworld-aka-you-sane-men-by-laurence.html
‘The thing that makes Jo’s planet (to which, we readers are soon informed, he can never return) so unique is that it was colonized by people with some kind of mental disorder or perversion who left the Comity several generations ago because it was difficult or impossible for them to legally satisfy their outre desires within the Comity. The striking feature of Jo’s planet, the center of their culture, is the many brothels known as “remand houses” where people go to torture slaves. In an early scene we observe twenty-year-old Jo, bitter after being scolded humiliatingly by his mother, go to his favorite remand house, request a young woman who looks like his mother, and in a private metal room burn this slave girl with a hot poker before raping her. (The burning is pretty explicitly described, the rape sort of just gestured at.)’
April 24th, 2022 at 3:26 am
The top Goodreads review is wonderful, in inverse proportion to the book. You know it’s a mood when it starts with a cartoon of a dog taking a dump and gets more displeased from there.
April 25th, 2022 at 9:05 am
This is one of “those” books isn’t it? It’s the kind of stuff that John Norman is all about.