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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 05:31:09 EST
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As long as we're re-hashing 'Gor' for the umpteenth time, could someone
provide a plot precis for the parody 'Housewives of Gor'? For some
reason I missed this in the previous incarnations of this discussion...
Thanks.
To make this posting more worthwhile for people bored by male sadism
and female masochism, here's a little game... I have two copies of
Avram Davidson's MUTINY IN SPACE, one printed in 1964 (price: 50 cents,
a miracle like unto the legendary cup of coffee) and one printed in
1974 (95 cents... what is this nation coming to?). Davidson clearly
had little control over the book; the title was changed from
VALENTINE'S PLANET, and the blurbs are amazingly unrepresentative of
the contents. You may be amused to observe the manner in which the
later blurb improves on the earlier one:
1964 'Pirates of the spaceways -- and a planet ripe for plunder'
'MAROONED on an unknown planet, the PERSEPHONE's officers
moved warily through the forest. They had escaped the
mutineers, but they knew there was danger ahead ... but what
was it? The answer came in a howl of fury and a charge by
grotesque armed figures -- an army of death-dealing women!'
1974 'A SCIENCE FICTION BLOCKBUSTER! Castaways of the universe --
marooned on a lost planet of war-crazed females!'
'Rond and his crew had been left to die slowly on an unknown
planet. As they moved warily through the alien forest they
heard the eerie rhythms coming toward them. Then they saw
the grotesque figures[:] A BIZARRE ARMY OF SCREAMING WOMEN!
Masked, brandishing gleaming swords [um...], rattling their
terrible death drums, howling with the fury of some primitive
blood lust -- and they were attacking! As the scarlet waves
of growling women approached, Rond and his men began to run --
back into the dark forest of looming horror...'
Needless to say this scene has a somewhat different emphasis in the
book. (The story is basically a re-telling of the Conquistadores vs.
the Indians, with a few variations, such as making the 'Indian' side be
a Japanese-style samurai culture run by women. Not Davidson's best
effort by any means...)
Do other folks have 'Kilgore Trout'-type blurbs they'd care to share?
Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa
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