Collector's Item
2011
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3.67
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48
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What I should like to know," Professor Bernardi said, gazing pensively after the lizard-man as he bore the shrieking form of Miss Anspacher off in his scaly arms, "is whether he is planning to eat her or make love to her. Because, in the latter instance, I'm not sure we should interfere. It may be her only chance." "Carl!" his wife cried indignantly. "That's a horrid thing to say! You must rescue her at once!" "Oh, I suppose so," he said, then gave his wife a nasty little grin that he knew would irritate her. "It isn't that she's unattractive, my dear, in case you hadn't noticed, though she's pretty well past the bloom of youth—" " Will you stop making leering noises and go save her or not ?" "I was coming to that. It's just that she persists in using her Ph.D. as a club to beat men into respectful pulps. Men don't like being beaten into respectful pulps, whether by a man or a woman. Now if she'd only learned that other people have feelings—"
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Evelyn E. Smith
Author · 17 books
Evelyn E. Smith was an American author of Science Fiction. During the fifties her works appeared regularly in magazines such as Galaxy and Fantastic Universe. In the eighties she wrote a number of novels featuring the character Miss Melville about a middle-aged assassin. She also wrote as: Delphine C. Lyons and Christopher Grimm
Ed Emshwiller
Author · 7 books
From 1951 to 1979, while living in Levittown, New York, Emshwiller ("Emsh") created covers and interior illustrations for dozens of science fiction paperbacks and magazines, notably Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.[3] He debuted in the pulp magazines with about 50 interior illustrations and four cover paintings for the May to December 1951 issues of Galaxy, a monthly edited by H. L. Gold. In that year or 1952 he also did his first book cover for the U.S. paperback edition of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because he experimented with a diversity of techniques, there is no typical Emsh cover. His painterly treatment for the August 1951 cover of Galaxy Science Fiction prefigures later work by Leo and Diane Dillon.
