Jan 11
Click for full imageBob Comments: “There go the child support checks!”
Published 1955
(Average: 6.94 out of 10)
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Bob Comments: “There go the child support checks!”
Published 1955
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January 11th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
“Star of wonder, star of night…”
January 11th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
“See what happens if you don’t ask for directions?”
January 11th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL NOVEL, DAMMIT. NOBODY EVER WROTE THIS NOVEL BEFORE. NOT A WORD OF THIS NOVEL HAS EVER APPEARED, ANYWHERE, IN ANY LANGUAGE. AND WE ONLY PRINTED ONE COPY.
Don’t tell me you’re not happy about that.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
Looks like little Jimmy in the front is hiding his sling-shot.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:09 pm
The men died in outer space and women faced the future alone. So basically, everything is going to be fine.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:11 pm
An early Joanna Russ effort, published under a male pseudonym. The women blew up the ship deliberately as a liberatory act.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:15 pm
That is a Surrealist explosion. Or perhaps Dada.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:20 pm
From the way the shadows splay out from the explosion, the spaceship must be about seven feel long and maybe a dozen feet in the air when it exploded, shortly after taking off from the middle of the circle the housewives all formed. The pieces look like it was cigar-shaped (although there seem to be three halves) The fact that they’re all wearing A-line skirts and Toni home perms means this is probably going to detail their inability to master DIY or parking.
So maybe this isn’t the widow-making accident but the results of these silly girls attempting a pinata without male supervision.
As the price suggests that it was printed in Britain before decimalisation a pinata would be more futuristic and alien than this Ladybird Books version of another planet.
January 11th, 2017 at 2:47 pm
“Look around. See if you can form a rudimentary knitting machine.”
January 11th, 2017 at 4:04 pm
The eagles died out in space – and the women faced the future with disproportionately long arms.
January 11th, 2017 at 4:05 pm
Apropos of the title, that must be the most tutti-frutti explosion I have ever seen.
January 11th, 2017 at 4:17 pm
Anyone else getting “spaceship attacked by eldritch abomination” vibes here? Because I am.
January 11th, 2017 at 4:59 pm
They could use Sigourney Weaver as leader but they will have to do with Doris Day. “Maybe we could build a fire, sing some songs.”
January 11th, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Well i’m getting an Ayn Rand vibe mixed with a Marks & Spencer Food Hall Re-vamp – but that’s just me Mister Bob ( no relation )
January 11th, 2017 at 5:45 pm
“Who is Joanna Galt?” The spaceship exploded because flying through hyperspace ain’t like managing a collective farm.
January 11th, 2017 at 6:15 pm
“Not a reprint” — because there was a glut of “All-Female Societies” books in the mid-1950s?
January 11th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
Long-armed mom to kid in foreground:
“Billy, I know that Oedipal thing has been putting you through some changes and all, but you have to stop playing with yourself every time Dad gets blown up in a space explosion!”
January 11th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
For some the sixties came early.
“No, Just a little tonic I get from a friend in Switzerland”.
January 11th, 2017 at 7:20 pm
“See here, fellas, we need to expand our audience. How can we get the womenfolk interested in science fiction?”
“Children!”
“I like it!”
“Sensible skirts!”
“Makes sense! Good work, Jenkins!”
“KILL ALL THE MEN!!!”
“For Christ’s sake, Burke, do you really think that’s a good idea?”
“THEY SHOULD DIE IN AN EXPLOSION!”
“Wait just a min-”
“…IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN!”
“Burke, you go too far! We need to keep this domestic for the women.”
“WHAT IF WE MADE IT MORE RELATABLE BY NAMING THE NOVEL AFTER A KITCHEN APPLIANCE?”
“Say…. That’s not half bad. Get started on a draft! Oh, and Burke… make sure to remind the readers that this is an original novel and not some lousy reprint.”
“YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, SIR!”
January 11th, 2017 at 7:47 pm
Six women – same hairstyle. Exactly how many men died in space?
January 11th, 2017 at 11:08 pm
“Finally! We can have different hairstyles and wear something other than A-line dresses! Maybe even trousers, more suitable for this rocky hellhole!”
January 11th, 2017 at 11:27 pm
@A.R.Y.: I dunno about books, but in the movies there was Abbott and Costello Go To Mars, Queen of Outer Space, Cat Women of the Moon, Fire Maidens from Outer Space, Devil Girl from Mars… probably others. But in those the women without men was a fantasy for those men who actually showed up in their societies. Must have been novelizations!
January 12th, 2017 at 1:43 am
@fred: If Tat’s calculations are correct and the spaceship was only 7 feet long, that would seem to be one man. Might explain the explosion. Sister wives are doin’ it for themselves.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:50 am
Dude blasted out into the cold vacuum of space: ‘AND I’M FREEZE…FREEZE FALLIN’…’
January 12th, 2017 at 5:03 am
@THX 1138—and let us not forget the legendary Phil Austin’s Roller Maidens from Outer Space.
January 12th, 2017 at 2:24 pm
There is the women-only future of Consider her ways by John Wyndham, a novella from 1956.
January 12th, 2017 at 9:47 pm
If it’s about a planet of women, shouldn’t it be ‘Cougar Books’?
January 12th, 2017 at 11:46 pm
@GSS noob (23), Mormons in space?
January 13th, 2017 at 3:35 am
It looks to me like that spaceship collided with a giant wasp
January 13th, 2017 at 6:24 am
@Dave M: S’what I thought fred was implying.
January 18th, 2017 at 2:44 am
There seem to be two women not looking in the right direction to see the explosion. Just saying… Maybe they’ve spotted some men hiding in the rocks. The empty disaster rocket was all a ploy!