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What it's like to read 1950s science fiction

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message 1: by Dara (new)

Dara (cmdrdara) | 2702 comments Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gol...

I laughed pretty hard when I saw this. It's obviously for the lulz but has a nugget of truth to it.


message 2: by terpkristin (new)

terpkristin | 4407 comments Too close to home ;)


message 3: by Leesa (new)

Leesa (leesalogic) | 675 comments yup! :D


message 4: by Iain (new)

Iain Bertram (iain_bertram) | 1740 comments This of course assumes you have a woman in the book!


message 5: by Dara (new)

Dara (cmdrdara) | 2702 comments The bonus panel reads, "In a proper Heinlein novel, she should be excited about it, and possibly naked."


Sean Lookielook Sandulak (seansandulak) | 444 comments No, there would be at least three naked women in a Heinlein novel. And one of them would be either a trained assassin or an alien with psychic powers.


Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth | 2218 comments Ouch, that really is too real!


message 8: by Trike (new)

Trike | 11209 comments Not seeing the problem.

::: lights pipe in spaceship :::


message 9: by Tamahome (new)

Tamahome | 7223 comments Is that Hugh Hefner?


message 10: by Mark (last edited Jul 16, 2019 06:04PM) (new)

Mark (markmtz) | 2822 comments Someone needs to look at women on-screen in the 50s too. Here's a BBC America listicle for women on recent vintage screens:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia...


message 11: by Ruth (new)

Ruth | 1779 comments it’s funny ‘cause it’s true...
oh dear.


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