 I'm glad the Earthlings came. Here on Mars perfect hair, huge boobs, and an hourglass figure are considered unattractive. 
Scott O'Neill should be embarrassed. His 1963 novel Martian Sexpot is a really stupid story about three astronauts sent on the first mission to Mars accompanied by a woman named Robin Chou whose official role is to have sex with the trio in order to prevent psychological breakdown. At first everything goes fine, but Robin falls in love with one of the men and shirks her duty to the other two. The pair suffer two long years without sex and are ready to kill by the time the spacecraft lands. On Mars they discover a green valley, spend a night out there, and awaken to find that Robin has been duplicated—spacesuit and all. Turns out she'd dozed in close proximity to a strange root or pod, and it had done what those things do in science fiction. There's no negative to this duplication, though. The new creation is smart, kind, and sexually willing, so the other astronauts make duplicates of Robin too, and everyone is happy. Then they make male duplicates to help with the work, and what happens is...
*pull ripcord and begin to recede into distance*
We don't know what happened after that! We bailed on it!
Because it's really bad..!
Don't read it..!
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1985—Theodore Sturgeon Dies
American science fiction and pulp writer Theodore Sturgeon, who pioneered a technique known as rhythmic prose, in which his text would drop into a standard poetic meter, dies from lung fibrosis, which may have been caused by his smoking, but also might have been caused by his exposure to asbestos during his years as a Merchant Marine. 1945—World War II Ends
At Reims, France, German General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms, thus ending Germany's participation in World War II. Jodl is then arrested and transferred to the German POW camp Flensburg, and later he is made to stand before the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials. At the conclusion of the trial, Jodl is sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal. 1954—French Are Defeated at Dien Bien Phu
In Vietnam, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had begun two months earlier, ends in a French defeat. The United States, as per the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, gave material aid to the French, but were only minimally involved in the actual battle. By 1961, however, American troops would begin arriving in droves, and within several years the U.S. would be fully embroiled in war. 1937—The Hindenburg Explodes
In the U.S, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire and is incinerated within a minute while attempting to dock in windy conditions after a trans-Atlantic crossing. The disaster, which kills thirty-six people, becomes the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and most famously, Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field. But for all the witnesses and speculation, the actual cause of the fire remains unknown. |
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