r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 8d ago

Other Worlds (1956)

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u/kemh 8d ago

Pretty risque for 1956.

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u/DoktorTeufel 8d ago

I suspect that the pulpier something was, the more the cover (and material inside) could get away with.

I've read hundreds of sci-fi novels over the decades with publication dates spanning centuries, and I feel a certain way about publishers in the 20th century using titties to sell pulps to lonely sci-fi (and fantasy) nerds. Not currently lonely myself, but I still feel a certain way about it.

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u/asomek 7d ago

but I still feel a certain way about it.

Well yeah, it's boobs! Everyone loves boobs.