

June 7th, 2014 at 12:36 - only one tag needed: “WTF?” I am unable to alphabetise and I must scream Once You See It You Want To Tear Your Filthy Eyes From Your Head Tropes appearing in Strange Relations include: She can’t get over her ex-boyfriend and flatmate Rog, a Nudist periwinkle! Rog fears commitment and an unlikely Love Dodecahedron between Marissa, Sven (her gynaecologist python), and billiards legend Steven Davis. Philip Jose Farmer’s Strange Relations is the novel of Marissa, an out-of-work sphinx with a Dark Past. Where are the tags? Was our esteemed GSS Admin so freaked or grossed out by this cover that the tags were forgotten? Not that I could blame him.

Thanks sheeping that out – I mean, do I REALLY want to see man boobs? The cover is so odd no one noticed someone, not pointing fingers, forgot to add tags! Kenny Rogers has taken his plastic surgery too far this time. “Why should you read this book after seeing this cover?”. “… I am the freaky old lion-man with tits … goo goo g’joob!“ No space sheep could ever be enough to protect our eyes from this cover! Sexual Education: the Benedict XVI Years. I know the positioning isn’t quite right, but isn’t there implied slug/ hemaphrodite sphynx coitus?ĭo not let children look at this, they would be traumatised for a long time, if not for life! If you wanted relations with that, “strange” would be a mild way of putting it. Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange-and often deadly-encounters between human and alien.If you were related to that, it would indeed be strange. and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death. He was crowned the “Sunhero,” which was a very dubious honor. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.įlesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow-and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre:
