Dec 05
Bibliomancer Comments: “Listen up Ruben, I got a great idea for your novel: Masters and Johnson … in space!”
Published 1977
Bibliomancer Comments: “Listen up Ruben, I got a great idea for your novel: Masters and Johnson … in space!”
Published 1977
December 5th, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Ultimate…as in, “last one, before he was slapped with a restraining order.”
December 5th, 2017 at 12:39 pm
“Teach me about this human emotion you call ‘bored indifference'”.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:00 pm
Thinks: “I’ll get away with this if I make the “parp! parp!” noise…
December 5th, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro’ the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body —
Need a body cry.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:27 pm
The electrodes will help to locate her zero-g-spot.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:44 pm
“A man and a woman locked in a space capsule test the limits of their passion in weightlessness. On earth scientists, generals and politicians test the limits of their ambition to conquer a country, a planet, a universe. It was the unthinkable, unreportable project, that would create an aberration in space, a holocaust on earth.” (Amazon) Sounds like it ends not with a bang but with a whimper.
Nothing on Goodreads, nothing in Wikipedia and exactly 1 review on Amazon. Obscure maybe? Where did you find this thing, BM?
December 5th, 2017 at 3:18 pm
Since Dionysus is the god of theatre this must be ”Waiting For Godot’.
December 5th, 2017 at 3:45 pm
@fred—
Dionysus:
“Hey, wait a minute. I’m also the god of wine, ritual madness and ecstatic orgies. I’m not sure these two are up to it, actually. Way too tranqed out.”
December 5th, 2017 at 3:47 pm
Going beyond any human emotion experienced on Earth gives you maybe wombat emotions on the moon?
Oh, and at first glance, I didn’t think those were electrodes …
December 5th, 2017 at 4:15 pm
Experiment” to see if marionettes can work in microgravity.
Conclusion: without weight, the puppets flop about uselessly.
Gerry Anderson lied to us.
December 5th, 2017 at 5:01 pm
@LL – Found this gem at a used bookstore in Seattle called Twice Sold Tales. Awesome store, seemed to have more used SF paperbacks than I’ve seen anywhere else.
December 5th, 2017 at 5:17 pm
Thanks BM. Are you actually going to read it? If you do please let us all know how it went and please please put a review up on Goodreads (under a false name if you prefer).
December 5th, 2017 at 5:18 pm
Er, that would probably be a false false name.
December 5th, 2017 at 5:43 pm
@LL – Read this? LOL. That implies I had purchased it.
I bought something else. Life is too short to read dreck. Took this picture for the memories.
December 5th, 2017 at 6:25 pm
So “beyond any human emotion experienced on earth” = “I want to touch her boobs”???
December 5th, 2017 at 7:02 pm
@B’Mancer—
Read this? LOL. That implies I had purchased it.
Er, dear sir, perhaps you are forgetting the omnipresence of CCTV in today’s world? Telling us you did not purchase the book might imply you left it on the shelf, or it might imply this.
Robert Mueller will be inviting you in for a chat shortly, I believe.
December 5th, 2017 at 7:25 pm
One and done by Billy Ruben:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?108908
December 5th, 2017 at 9:11 pm
Wow, we barely (har) needed Space Sheep this time. Not that we aren’t always glad to see our galaxy-spanning ovine pal.
People experience different emotions off Earth, even though they still have the same brains? I don’t think so.
Here’s the first, 1970 cover; trippy, man:
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/17/WGHTLSSNGZ1970.jpg
Neither of these titles or blurbs makes any sense. The nekkidity in outer space is the same, though they look less bored in the earlier art.
Someone actually owns this!
https://salmongutter.blogspot.com/2008/11/paperback-158-dionysus-ultimate.html
Apparently he wrote this, a book about the Holocaust, an “inspirational” book about women, and a soap opera/pot boiler about the powerful.
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=4862838973#&gid=1&pid=1
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9104000668&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26an%3DWilliam%2BS.%2BRUBEN&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image15#&gid=1&pid=1
@Tat (10): I KNEW it!
@Tor (9): Wombats on the moon? Anything like narwhals on the vestry?
December 5th, 2017 at 9:19 pm
Whoops. Too many links in my post. TW, please un-moderate it, it’s not spam, I promise. Just links to Mr. Ruben’s other work, and the previous edition.
A selected line:
@Tor (9): Wombats on the moon? Anything like narwhals on the vestry?
December 5th, 2017 at 10:03 pm
@GSSXN – Done!
December 6th, 2017 at 12:19 am
@GSS ex-hibtionist: I hadn’t noticed until you posted the link, but it does appear as though his man bits are being exposed…except, they have their point of insertion considerably above the bladder.
Maybe that’s the ultimate experiment? Penis transplant? 😶
December 6th, 2017 at 12:21 am
@GSSXN:
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/17/WGHTLSSNGZ1970.jpg
So that’s what they mean by the Gaza Strip.
December 6th, 2017 at 10:07 am
Twenty two comments and nobody’s mentioned the giant sperm. HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THE GIANT SPERM?
December 7th, 2017 at 2:12 am
@DSWBT(21): Maybe that’s what gets him the new emotion, beyond Earthly ones?
It doesn’t look terribly impressive from this angle. Might lead both of them to a new negative emotion.
@Tor(22): Indeed. One way of solving the ongoing crisis, I guess? But were the Middle Eastern folk removed during the rewrite and new title? Because this cover looks like it’s trying to solve the problems between Norway and Sweden.
September 20th, 2019 at 6:08 pm
The title “Dionysus” suggests an experiment to see how drunk people can get in orbit. Which might be interesting…