Girls for the Slime God

by Mike Resnick (Editor), Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner

GIRLS FOR THE SLIME GOD is a collection based around three Henry Kuttner stories published in 1938, stories that (almost) actually delivered on the lurid promises of the pulp magazine covers of the day. Besides the Kuttner stories, the 1960 Playboy article by William Knoles that sparked the interest of future editor Mike Resnick and the story science fiction legend Isaac Asimov was prompted to write in response are included. As are the script that Mike's wife Carol adapted from one of the stories and Barry Malzberg's afterword that sheds a bit of additional light on the Asimov story. Wrapped in a cover by Hugo Award nominee Peggy Ransom, GIRLS FOR THE SLIME GOD is a fascinating look into an era when heroic spacemen saved scantily-clad women from bug-eyed monsters and evil scientists bent on galactic conquest.

Genres: Science Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published August 29, 1997

About the author

Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick, better known by his published name Mike Resnick, was a popular and prolific American science fiction author. He is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He was the winner of five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the United States, France, Spain, Japan, Croatia and Poland. and has been short-listed for major awards in England, Italy and Australia. He was the author of 68 novels, over 250 stories, and 2 screenplays, and was the editor of 41 anthologies. His work has been translated into 25 languages. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon and can be found online as @ResnickMike on Twitter or at www.mikeresnick.com.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

How can you not like a book with a title like this? Especially since it features "a tetralogical baroque spawned by no sane world"? Resnick has collected three stories by Henry Kuttner from 1938's Marvel Science Stories, along with material by Isaac Asimov and a few others, and produced a volume sure to appeal to fans of Ed Wood movies. As one of the cover blurbs proclaims, it's prime time slime!