I’m trying to work out which Tiptree story this is:
Love is the Plan, the Plan is Dumb
The Women’s Clothes Men Don’t See
And I Awoke and Found Me Here, Standing on my Head with Myself Glued to My Abdomen
The Streaker Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rat-Men
I’ve Got Two Pairs of Armpits But I Love to Play
Dude, I don’t know what you’re looking all grumpy about. The view from down here is distinctly less palatable than what you’re seeing. When do we get to flip sides?
I have been very good this year. I did not vote for Donald Trump.
This year, I would like in my Christmas stocking:
–a nude woman
–a cat person
–an albino Archaeopteryx
–the King of Thailand, or maybe two
–a fleet of spermatozeppelins
–a quiet place to go in the mountains
And lastly, I think you should know that spending time with fellows named Dancer and Prancer isn’t doing much for your macho image.
@B. Chiclitz – isfdb.org says it’s a short story collection, French translations. There is a whole series of Le livre d’or de la science-fiction books. Most with righteous covers.
@Tag W—Thanks. I saw that page. Some of the books have titles, some just the author’s name. Is this any way to market a “Golden Book” series, I ask you?
December 1st, 2016 at 11:33 am
Sci-fi version of Leda Ravished by the Swan meets Poe’s ‘Thou Art The Man’? Yet somehow less than the sum of its parts.
December 1st, 2016 at 11:35 am
‘Ho, strange fellow and his conjoined twin! Leave your companions and take me to Castle Gumball!’
December 1st, 2016 at 11:37 am
“See, ya can’t do the hokey-cokey like me, can ya?”
December 1st, 2016 at 11:40 am
In this French edition they translated the pants right off of her.
December 1st, 2016 at 1:05 pm
It has a retro Flash Gordon aspect refracted through Dali and seventies sexploitation. Will this woman end the oppression of the hamster-men?
December 1st, 2016 at 1:30 pm
The spaceship pilots took one look at this motley crew and hit the after-burners.
December 1st, 2016 at 2:21 pm
La Belle Dame sans Culottes hath them in thrall.
December 1st, 2016 at 2:56 pm
@JuanPaul: But they didn’t make it far, I’m afraid.
December 1st, 2016 at 3:14 pm
I’m trying to work out which Tiptree story this is:
Love is the Plan, the Plan is Dumb
The Women’s Clothes Men Don’t See
And I Awoke and Found Me Here, Standing on my Head with Myself Glued to My Abdomen
The Streaker Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rat-Men
I’ve Got Two Pairs of Armpits But I Love to Play
December 1st, 2016 at 3:21 pm
I can’t rate this. I don’t know how embarrassed I would be reading it on a French bus.
December 1st, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Bottom Head to Top Head:
Dude, I don’t know what you’re looking all grumpy about. The view from down here is distinctly less palatable than what you’re seeing. When do we get to flip sides?
December 1st, 2016 at 3:46 pm
She actually seems to be wearing some sort of gossamer-thin garment. I guess that’s why we don’t need a mouton de la space.
December 1st, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Perhaps she has informed the aquatic interloper that this pool is a woman-only nudist area and he should leave. And take his gopher-slave with him.
December 1st, 2016 at 4:13 pm
That . . . man . . . is taking a headstand to new and disturbing territory. His cat-person slave is suitably disturbed, as is the underdressed woman.
December 1st, 2016 at 5:34 pm
@dswbt Ah, the nudist pilots of Darkover. This cover makes much more sense now…though I still can’t make heads or tails of that two torso alien.
December 1st, 2016 at 5:38 pm
The Pushmi-Pullyu’s first wish was to become human. His second wish was for a girlfriend. It’s his third wish that drove things a bit round the bend.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:17 pm
Dear Father Christmas,
I have been very good this year. I did not vote for Donald Trump.
This year, I would like in my Christmas stocking:
–a nude woman
–a cat person
–an albino Archaeopteryx
–the King of Thailand, or maybe two
–a fleet of spermatozeppelins
–a quiet place to go in the mountains
And lastly, I think you should know that spending time with fellows named Dancer and Prancer isn’t doing much for your macho image.
Happy Holidays, DSWBT
December 1st, 2016 at 8:43 pm
Donald Trump is Father Christmas. Everyone gets a self-assembly Mexican-proof wall.
December 1st, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Grab Blitzen by the antlers.
December 2nd, 2016 at 5:14 am
Not that it matters much, but does anyone actually know the title of this book?
December 2nd, 2016 at 5:57 am
@B. Chiclitz – isfdb.org says it’s a short story collection, French translations. There is a whole series of Le livre d’or de la science-fiction books. Most with righteous covers.
December 2nd, 2016 at 1:17 pm
“You’re it!”
December 2nd, 2016 at 4:23 pm
@Tag W—Thanks. I saw that page. Some of the books have titles, some just the author’s name. Is this any way to market a “Golden Book” series, I ask you?
December 11th, 2016 at 5:24 am
As an American of a Certain Age, my thought was “wow, the French versions of Little Golden Books were WAY different from ours…”