Jan 09
Click for larger imagePaula Comments: Not sure if this qualifies as science fiction. But it has the word “rockets” on the cover!
Close enough to start launching some missile puns. – GSS
Published 1962
(Average: 4.20 out of 10)
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Paula Comments: Not sure if this qualifies as science fiction. But it has the word “rockets” on the cover!
Close enough to start launching some missile puns. – GSS
Published 1962
(Average: 4.20 out of 10)Loading...
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January 9th, 2018 at 10:23 am
“Don’t you mean “Lost in Orbit”?”
“No, I really don’t.”
January 9th, 2018 at 10:24 am
I like that one of these sex crazed vixens is called Madge.
January 9th, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Rocket scientists in a “slough of sex and carnality”. Yes, definitely science fiction.
January 9th, 2018 at 1:15 pm
This is probably what Dick Blades’ normal suburban life is like when he isn’t being astral projected onto other planets.
January 9th, 2018 at 1:57 pm
Lust in Space “Danger Mrs Robinson!”
January 9th, 2018 at 2:10 pm
Th’ expense of fiction by a lame Jim Layne
Is lust in orbit, and till orbit, lust
Is trashy, sleazy, worthy of Jim Baen—
Adultery, intrigue and a thinly covered bust
Enjoyed much less than the posts that jest,
Past reason written, and we no sooner write
Past reason read, with a chuckle at the best
On purpose laid, our foreheads then we smite.
Glad in pursuit and in possession so,
Read, reading and in quest to read, extreme
To waste the day in science fiction woe
In light of just how bad these covers seem.
All this the GSS well knows, yet none knows well
To shun the bookstalls that lead us to this (swell) hell.
–apologies to the Bard’s #129.
January 9th, 2018 at 2:54 pm
“What really happens to American families forced by the Atomic era to plant transient roots in strange soil”
So it’s about Lincolnshire and other occupied bits of the Fens? Was Molesworth really sin city?
January 9th, 2018 at 3:25 pm
B. Chiclitz, I award you ONE BILLION INTERNETS. That was fantastic. The facts that it scans is only the beginning of its awesomeness.
January 9th, 2018 at 4:03 pm
@L_L—As you know, this is the most inspirational website on the internets.
January 9th, 2018 at 4:34 pm
Given this cover I think the Beacon Signal emblem should be at least doubled in size.
January 9th, 2018 at 7:57 pm
I call shenanigans. That woman is not dressed for orbit.
January 10th, 2018 at 4:19 am
I… have no objections to this.
It’s perfectly good pulp, doesn’t contain fonts you can’t read, and the young lady is realistically painted (with all her limbs correct and present), and she doesn’t even need Space Sheep.
Also, “rocket scientists in a slough of sex and carnality” is a definition of Jack Parsons. Except he also had Aleister Crowley links. And he had an affair with his wife’s teenage sister, who then took all his money and left him to marry L. Ron Hubbard and invent Dianetics. After which he kidnapped their daughter.
So this is pretty tame stuff by comparison — only horny young scientists and heavy drinking.
However, B(ard) Chiclitz’ offering is superb. Much better than this deserves. And it not only scans, but the original seems to apply to this book!
Good Show BC.
January 12th, 2018 at 9:26 am
[*Beep*]”Mission Control, I’ve found out why the retro jets were jammed. A pair of pink panties stuck in the fuel valve!”
“MAHONEEEEY!!”
January 14th, 2018 at 7:45 pm
Ground control to Peeping Tom
January 15th, 2018 at 6:31 pm
@Bibliomancer #14. Good one.
January 18th, 2018 at 12:36 pm
Benny Hill’s Lust In Space
February 15th, 2018 at 5:33 am
Gave this a high rating because it is such a miss. bad colors, sexy-not sexy, sexually ambiguous…or maybe it is ahead of it’s time.
July 18th, 2022 at 9:09 pm
That cover art could have been for any cheesy 60’s pulp romance, but it DOES have the words orbit and and rockets, just begging to be mocked.
@BC – GSS!
July 19th, 2022 at 12:50 am
I do have a beef with the title. If it’s just the rocket scientists and their wives and secretaries having the Lust, it’s not In Orbit. And Lust in Orbit in 1962 wasn’t very, since only one astro/cosmonaut at a time was In Orbit. I don’t think Gagarin or Glenn was, you know. And those capsules were SMALL.
@BC’s poem remains awesome.