Jun 27
Click for full imageMaryAnne Comments: He’ll have no problem keeping it in those pants.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1960
Click for full imageCharles Comments: Ream me up Scotty!
Published 1971
It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – Sci-Fi Sexytime Edition!
(Average: 6.00 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
June 27th, 2017 at 1:57 pm
1) Not for long. Maybe another 50 ft. or so.
2) Kirk gets…..oh why even bother.
June 27th, 2017 at 2:01 pm
1) They were just impressed by his sweet ride.
2) You mean the Starship Enterprise WASN’T the Starship Intercourse?
June 27th, 2017 at 2:02 pm
#1 Rope-a-Dope
#2 Say hello to my little friend
June 27th, 2017 at 2:04 pm
I see now that Alice Sheldon HAD to write “Houston, Houston, Do You Read Me?” after enduring decades of stuff like that cover. It was simply inevitable.
There’s a radio play version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXK8LbcG7M
June 27th, 2017 at 2:14 pm
1) What a maroon
2) They’re not even in the ship. They’re banging away on a spacewalk wearing nothing but bubble helmets and thongs.
June 27th, 2017 at 2:21 pm
Given the shape of what passes for breasts on the lady in #2 I suspect she’s been having intercourse with a dalek.
June 27th, 2017 at 2:30 pm
1. I love the insouciant little slit in the white mini skirt. We should have an “insouciance” tag.
1 (a). I have no zipper and I must pee.
2. In space no one can hear you orgasm.
June 27th, 2017 at 4:06 pm
#1 I remember seeing this guy before.
June 27th, 2017 at 4:48 pm
1. The problem with a planet of all women is they never developed gaydar.
2. It is very cold in space. Obviously.
June 27th, 2017 at 4:56 pm
#2: instead of a thong, the gentleman appears to have a tiny little alien participating in the worst threesome of his life!
June 27th, 2017 at 5:57 pm
1: Yeah, with the expressions they’ve all got on their faces, sex will be happening really, really soon.
2: Both of those people are wearing the most uncomfortable underwear I’ve ever seen. I mean, her bra’s nipple protrusions were odd enough, but what is that on the front of his underwear? I don’t want to know.
June 27th, 2017 at 8:38 pm
#1. From a purely technical point of view, this cover is not badly executed. Its GSS-worthiness comes from the ridiculous overall “set up,” as well as the expressions on their faces. But I do have one technical difficulty, which is that it doesn’t appear that they have walked far enough away from that rocket for the laws of linear perspective to have come into play. That is, I think the rocket and the woman who seems not to be invited to the party are really only 3 feet (her) to 4 feet (the rocket) tall!
And yet, somehow, that makes the whole thing more intruigying.
June 27th, 2017 at 10:37 pm
#1: Those ladies are going to be disappointed. For one thing, the trousers imply he isn’t packing much in there. For another, I’m not sure he fancies the ladies — but they might get some different style clothing.
Also those are a whole bunch of arch looks. Everyone’s arch. Even more than insouciant. Smirky McSmug?
#2: She seems to be wearing funnels on her chest. He seems to have googly eyes on his thong. They all must be in some kind of clear pressurized bubble since there’s no explosive decompression. I guess the bubble helmets are just their fetish-wear? (And are the two ladies in pink refugees from #1?)
June 27th, 2017 at 10:55 pm
Of course #1 could be worse, it could be the BAEN!explosion version:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Virgin_Planet.html?id=hga3KJ4Lx5EC&source=kp_cover
The oversized trousers remain a constant. But check out that blurb! “Yucky”
Most of the covers this book got are horrible, but they had the bird-thing which apparently ought to be in this scene.
June 27th, 2017 at 11:19 pm
What amuses me about the time period is that even when the subject matter is blatantly sexual, it was still considered taboo to show a bellybutton.
June 27th, 2017 at 11:30 pm
@GSS-X-N – And here is the Sir Mix-A-Lot version. No trousers in sight.
June 27th, 2017 at 11:33 pm
@GSSX – I just added a link to another Virgin Planet cover on this site. No trousers either.
June 28th, 2017 at 12:00 am
It turned out, all they wanted to know was had he seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show before?
@TagWizard: The former cover doesn’t actually have the author’s name amidst the tags.
June 28th, 2017 at 3:24 am
Somebody could probably write a history of the evolution of pulp art just using this novel!
June 28th, 2017 at 3:57 am
@DSWBT – Done!
June 28th, 2017 at 8:46 am
The cover is from 1960, but the artwork looks like 1950. Is this a reprint?
June 28th, 2017 at 11:00 am
@A.R.Yngve. The Science Fiction Encyclopaedia says “Virgin Planet” was first published in 1959, so possibly this is re-purposed cover art from some earlier “Planet of Women” novel. (They weren’t exactly rare…)
On the other hand, you may recall how Good Show Sir’s crack team of fearless investigative reporters recently exposed the SFE’s staff as a bunch of hacks given to wantonly attributing the work of one author to another, so really, who knows?
June 28th, 2017 at 12:38 pm
“Space: the fecund frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Intercourse. Its five-year missionary position: to explore strange new planetary bodies, to seek out new lust and new sensations — to boldly roger where no man has rogered before!”
June 28th, 2017 at 2:46 pm
@A.R. Yngve—and of course, always remembering to follow the Prime Directive: “I’ll still respect you in the morning.”
June 28th, 2017 at 6:23 pm
@GSS ex-noob: Just so you know, explosive decompression isn’t actually a thing. They might wind up with some skin problems, but they’re not actually going to blow up like someone in a diving bell accident (which has actually happened, don’t look up pictures it’s really awful).
June 28th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
1. The saucy looks those girls are giving each other indicate that a shag is definitely in the offing – just not involving him
2. How is he supposed to explore the vinyl frontier of her bra with no forearms?
June 29th, 2017 at 5:41 am
@Anna T: I know, but “explosive” seemed to fit, ahem ahem. Really they’ll just get sunburned, all the moisture in their bodies will boil, and then they’ll asphyxiate and freeze. MUCH better.
@B’mancer: speaking of skin problems.
@Tag Wiz: Looks more realistic with Space Sheep — s/he certainly wasn’t needed to block out anything visible.
@Tat Wood: did she chop off his arm with those claws? (look at the talons at the end of her fingers)