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    Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them
    Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them
    Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them
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    Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them

    By Cora Buhlert

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    Six short science fiction stories that subvert the tropes and clichés of the golden age and caricature the gender dynamics of classic science fiction.

    In these pages, you'll travel from suburban America to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. You'll visit New Pluto City and Garrett's World. You'll encounter the terrors of the Brazilian jungle and the horrors of American suburbia. You'll meet phantom lovers and alien she-devils, devious man-eaters, unseen underwater monsters and the tentacled menace of the fearsome Eee'chuk-chi'up. You'll encounter dashing space heroes who don't get the girl and bug-eyed monsters that do. And you'll meet intergalactic heroines who know exactly what they want from a lover. 

    This is a collection of six satirical science fiction stories of 7700 words or approximately 26 print pages altogether.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781519957511
    Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them - Cora Buhlert

      Introduction

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      Relationships between men and women — with the occasional alien thrown into the mix — have long been a popular theme in science fiction. And all too often, the resulting stories project the gender politics of mid-century suburban America onto the far future.

      Bug-Eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them is a collection of six short science fiction stories that subvert the tropes and clichés of the golden age and caricature the gender dynamics of classic science fiction.

      In the following pages, you’ll travel from 1950s America to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. You’ll visit New Pluto City and Garrett’s World and you’ll learn how not to populate an uninhabited planet. You’ll encounter the terrors of the Brazilian jungle and the horrors of American suburbia. You’ll meet phantom lovers and alien she-devils, devious man-eaters, unseen underwater monsters and the tentacled menace of the fearsome Eee’chuk-chi’up. You’ll encounter dashing space heroes who don’t get the girl and bug-eyed monsters that do. And you’ll meet intergalactic heroines who know exactly what they want from a lover.

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      Garrett’s World

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      When the convict ship Perpetual Penitence crash-landed on the uninhabited planet X-4673, Captain Robert R. Garrett quickly realised that he and his crew had been doubly lucky.

      Firstly, because though uninhabited, X-4673 was nonetheless capable of supporting human life. And secondly, because the cargo, convicts en route to the prison world of Perdition, was all female, while the crew and guards of the Perpetual Penitence were all male.

      Captain Garrett rejoiced. Human civilisation would continue on X-4673, which he planned to rename into Garrett’s World.

      So he ordered everybody on board, both crew and convicts, to assemble in front of the crashed ship. The convicts were kept under guard. After all, they were criminals. And women.

      People of Garrett’s World… the Captain began.

      The third officer, one Mr. Huffman, stuck up his hand. Uhm, sorry sir, but I thought this planet was named X-4673.

      It was, the Captain snapped, But Garrett’s World has a much nicer ring to it, wouldn’t you say? Anyway, people of Garrett’s World, listen carefully, cause I have some important announcements to make.

      Captain Garrett struck a pose, the pose of the heroic coloniser.

      I have good and bad news for you. The bad news is that our ship has crashed…

      We kind of noticed, one the convicts called out.

      The Captain glared at her, for he so hated being interrupted when making important pronouncements. He briefly considered having a guard beat her into submission with a shockstick, but then decided against it. For she was old — at least forty — and ugly and wouldn’t live past the day’s end anyway.

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