Feb 27
Click for full imageSimon W Comments: The blurb says “The women had taken over by 1998!” and, “Read the results in Richard Wilson’s unique, tongue-in-cheek, highly risible novel. It’s science fiction with a Woody Allen twist!”
Published 1969
(Average: 6.89 out of 10)
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February 27th, 2014 at 11:31 am
Makes a change from Earthmen visiting all-women outer space civilisations in science fiction – come ’69, they’d visited us. So to speak.
Anyway, seriously, what is she holding and what purpose does it have? Is it a domestic appliance? An intergalactic Chinese lantern? Is it even supposed to do that?
February 27th, 2014 at 11:36 am
Previously seen here.
February 27th, 2014 at 1:11 pm
“Oh, we couldn’t be bothered to name our planet. We just call it Planet 5.”
February 27th, 2014 at 1:14 pm
Is this part of Plan 9?
February 27th, 2014 at 1:48 pm
A “Woody Allen twist”?? God, no! Think of the children!!
February 27th, 2014 at 1:49 pm
‘When the beautiful invaders took over, only Texas fought back.’
Because there’s nothing a Texan fears more than an attractive, intelligent, powerful and independent woman.
February 27th, 2014 at 3:54 pm
By Richard Wilson? I DON’T BELIEEEVE IT!
February 27th, 2014 at 3:54 pm
That dates me, I know.
February 27th, 2014 at 4:43 pm
A “different” science fiction novel, requiring a DIFFERENT font color and a different kind of reading and a different set of expectations and a . . . oh, I think we’ve gotten the point.
February 27th, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Texas would just pass a law saying there are only 4 planets. Problem solved.
February 27th, 2014 at 7:04 pm
Here’s something Texans fear even more: Las Chicas del Planeta 5. ¡Ay, caramba!
February 27th, 2014 at 8:23 pm
It was all fun and games until they met the Representative For Planet 8.
February 27th, 2014 at 9:53 pm
@Bibliomancer—Here’s how the blurb for Las Chicas del Planeta 5 reads when run through the GoogleTranslate® engine:
“Interesting adventure is performing these girls, who are well prepared for this space flight, arrive at the planet and wonderful trip rough, as arribada subjugates the reader, describing the great sidereal landscape.”
Figures it would be scary to Texans. Anything written at this level of complexity and sophistication gives them the terrors.
February 27th, 2014 at 10:27 pm
@ B. Chiclitz — Ha – ha. But to really understand this blurb you have to run the Spanish through the Chinese and then the Russian before translating into English:
“Fun adventure running these girls that are very suitable for this drug spaceflight came to a strong and amazing journey on this planet, their arrival subordinates readers, describing the gorgeous scenery stars.”
Much better.
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February 28th, 2014 at 12:16 am
@Bibliomancer: ah, that’s poetry, that is!
‘Do you Bokrug take Otuadesu the Roadside Attraction to be your girl, in fun adventure running and drug spaceflight, to a strong and amazing journey and to a subordinated arrival,on this planet and the gorgeous star scenery, until undeath do you AUUGH STOP BITING ME! OH, GOODNESS, THAT’S MY SPLEEN, SPIT IT OUT AND GIVE IT OH NO I DON’T WANT TO BE EATEN–‘
February 28th, 2014 at 4:16 am
This is actually a pretty cool cover!
February 28th, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Your weekend homework assignment:
Could The Girls From Planet 5 Be The Best Novel Ever?
Please submit your book reports typed, double-spaced.
March 5th, 2014 at 10:08 am
I like that this edition claims to be “a different science fiction novel”, but is exactly the same as the earlier edition.
August 16th, 2015 at 10:25 am
Well, duh. Of course they assign numbers to planets. There are so many you’ll soon run out of useful names!
I guess we’re lucky it was such a small number and not some arbitrary sequence of digits around bazillion.
Hey, is that Britney Spears?
August 25th, 2015 at 4:53 am
It would seem these ladies from outer space intend to use genies as one of their weapons in conquering the Earth, given as how the one on the cover seems to have just released one from its bottle.
December 4th, 2015 at 6:31 pm
Purely in the interests of science, I have substituted all nouns in all three blurbs with the titles of random Wikipaedia pages.
*ahem*
When the beautiful Villa O’Higgins took over, only Lucy Hardy fought 1752 in Ireland! A different chumba Bishop of Middleton.
Möller & Co. had taken The Last Warhorse by Grüneisen parameter!
Read the Meran Town Hall in Nuussuaq’s unique, Hibbert-in-Shiho, highly risible Michael Milhoan. It’s Mike Konnick with a Julius Frank California budget crisis!