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Click for full imageDorian G Comments: If the recipes come out looking anything like this illustration, it surely is food from out of this world!
Published 1973
Technically non-fiction – but we’ll ignore that today!
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August 28th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Well I don’t know about you guys… but I would be delighted to taste Anne McCaffrey’s Tuna Delight……
*throws up*
August 28th, 2013 at 10:47 am
“And written by an assortment etc …” I’m being dense. I don’t get the ‘and’, there.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
‘Here, ma’am…let me serve you up a slice of my Sturgeon’s head in blueberry reduction…with a little titanocene dicarbonyl sprinkled on the top…what do you think?’
August 28th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Looking through the recipes, I’m glad – really glad – I’m a vegetarian. The only book that could have brought less pleasure into my life would have been Sex Out of This World edited by Piers Anthony “and written by an assortment of science fiction writers recording their favorite techniques for posteriors [sic] without any regard for the immediate consequences whatsoever.”
August 28th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Funnily enough the follow up “Diarrhoea Out of this Bottom” didn’t sell as well, not even for an alternative purpose for the pages.
August 28th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
‘.. without any regard for immediate consequences..’
Hmm. Let’s see. Diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and bleeding ulcers are all rather long term. Immediate. So, what then, are we talking perhaps things like nausea, diarrhea, projectile vomiting and, say, severe and life threatening allergic reactions to ingredients? Sounds absolutely delightful, let’s just fire up the stove.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
The sequel, “Out of this Cooking World,” is a book of science-fiction stories by chefs.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:18 pm
@Rachel J: Now that would make an awesome Ace double. Still wouldn’t buy it though.
I recommend the ‘Romance Writers Guide to Rebuilding Your Big Block V8’. 2nd edition preferably. Jackie Collins chapter on carburetors is fantastic.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
I’m disappointed. I was hoping the John Brunner recipe would be called “The Sheep Cook Up”
August 28th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
I’d like to claim Ellison’s recipe as my own just to see how long it takes him to sue me.
And if one of the recipes doesn’t call for blue phallus I don’t know why one is on the cover.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know why “Mrs. Moorcock’s Famous Christmas Pudding” is so called.
August 28th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Just so you know, this book isn’t merely original, it’s “VERY ORIGINAL.” That must account or the “And”; also perhaps the five distinct fonts on the cover.
August 28th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
‘Thomas M. Disch once tried to test me. I ate his liver and onions, with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Fffffff!’
August 28th, 2013 at 7:44 pm
On second thoughts, I think the illustration shows what you look like after you’ve eaten some (any?) of the recipes.
August 28th, 2013 at 8:35 pm
Maybe if I could just have another little hit of that “Sailor Hash” I’d appreciate the “Striped Bass Fishballs” a bit more.
August 28th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Recipes include:
– William Gibson’s Neural Potato Chips
– James Tiptree Jr’s Omelette That Men Don’t See
– Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Cake (made from parts of other cakes — WARNING: May rebel against its own creator)
– Isaac Asimov’s The Last Quiche
– Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Chicken
August 28th, 2013 at 10:36 pm
I love the detail of EC Tubb making home-brew: if Earl Dumarest took time out from his swashbuckling to make elderflower wine and swap it with his neighbours, it’d make such a difference to his chances of finding Earth. But now I’m imagining him played by Richard Briers.
@A.R.Yngwe: you know about the Tiptree Award for SF that challenges gender assumptions being financed by bake sales and a recipe book, ‘The Baking Men Don’t See”, right?
August 28th, 2013 at 10:50 pm
@ A.R. Yngve, I’ll play.
Patrick Rothfuss’ “Name of the Wind” bean burritos.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:07 pm
@ Adam Roberts: it took me a while to parse that weirdness too. I think it’s a continuation from the top of the page: “Edited by Anne McCaffrey And written by an assortment of science fiction writers recording their favourite recipes for posterity without any regard for the immediate consequences whatsoever…”
Can’t say it makes a heck of a lot of sense in any case. Writing recipes down is not a particularly high watermark for recklessness.
August 29th, 2013 at 5:05 am
@AMartyn—good parse. The blurb writer probably just offered up the copy and the layout person, who, it appears, not only has an unimpressive eye but is also illiterate, just broke it up according to some arcane sense of “design.”
Of course, there’s plenty of blame to go around for this masterpiece. But hey, damn the consequences! These are recipes that play for keeps!!
August 29th, 2013 at 5:11 am
@Tag Wizard: There’s a face in that blue stuff there, but since I can not really tell what any of the ‘there’ is I don’t suppose it qualifies for ‘face tree’ tagging, does it?
August 29th, 2013 at 11:10 am
@A R Yngve @ Tom Hering I’m in too.
Frank Herbert’s Middle Eastern Allegorical Spice Stew (4 servings – no wait it’s 5, no, 6 – and a starter knocked up by someone else)
George R R Martin’s very very slow cooked meat feast.
Philip K Dick’s Electric Lamb kebabs.
September 1st, 2013 at 8:11 pm
FöM – Maybe it’s a face … face? Shall we pop it in “floating head” for now, although, really, it could be doing anything, right, man?
September 11th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Looking at the cover, I’m guessing there’s probably a lot of mushroom based dishes.
March 6th, 2016 at 2:50 pm
There’s also a “sequel”, if you will – “Serve It Forth”, edited by Anne McCaffrey and John Gregory Betancourt.
http://www.amazon.com/Serve-It-Forth-Cooking-McCaffrey/dp/0809500949
March 6th, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Real groin ivy
Eddy bite Effem Cannacry
GO OUT, OH SICK TWIN OF LORD
and eat an assortment of the favorite candy of science fiction writers, who devise secret recipes, written in queer metrics, without any regard for thy big, enorm, posterior
January 10th, 2017 at 12:49 pm
Philip Jose Farmer’s A Fish Unknown
Peter Watts’ Blindside Dish
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Dark Rarebit
May 23rd, 2018 at 11:28 pm
My ex-roomie had the sequel. The cover was not this blobby. It was fairly entertaining. She made a couple recipes out of it, and they were pretty good.