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laconicsax

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23. You mean sci-fi books since the 50s, right?

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 02:56 AM

Feb 2012

It wasn't new in the 60s and 70s, nor did it end.

Fantasy novels do it too.

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Why do sci-fi books from the 60s and 70's have so many scatily-clad women... [View all] Odin2005 Feb 2012 OP

Because the publishers thought most of the people buying them were teenage boys? csziggy Feb 2012 #1

That's as good an explaination as any. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #6

Creepy? Those covers were awesome. FSogol Feb 2012 #2

Very cool! I really like that bottom one on the scifi list, petronius Feb 2012 #22

Most of the ones I read didn't. Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #3

It's mostly the pulpy stuff. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #7

Any Ace doubles in the batch? csziggy Feb 2012 #8

We have several dozen of them! Odin2005 Feb 2012 #9

Well, darn. csziggy Feb 2012 #14

Time Enough for Love pokerfan Feb 2012 #10

I stand corrected. Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #11

Here's one where the woman is wearing more than the dude pokerfan Feb 2012 #12

Heinlein was my favorite growing up. MiddleFingerMom Feb 2012 #16

One of my favorites as well pokerfan Feb 2012 #17

He was always trying to go back in time and nail his mother. PassingFair Feb 2012 #26

My copy of To Sail Beyond the Sunset LeftyMom Feb 2012 #36

Because the male age group that mostly read them dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #4

Why do shitty romance novels *still* feature scantily clad characters on their covers? Orrex Feb 2012 #5

It's hard to believe, but back in the 20th Century, humans used "sex" to sell "products" bluedigger Feb 2012 #13

LOL nt cyberswede Feb 2012 #19

Tee hee hee libodem Feb 2012 #20

Targeted Marketing. Chan790 Feb 2012 #15

Space Sex. Show us your Outer Space O-Face!!! MiddleFingerMom Feb 2012 #18

space sex pokerfan Feb 2012 #25

sexay! Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #30

BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH BOOB FOR THE BOOK TO HOLD! XemaSab Feb 2012 #21

This thread has too much boob for the internet to hold. Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #29

You mean sci-fi books since the 50s, right? laconicsax Feb 2012 #23

As happens so often in this forum, this can be solved with three little words: Margaret Brundage. dimbear Feb 2012 #24

or Hugo Gernsback baldguy Feb 2012 #27

Brundage was, inspirational, to say the least. pulpcovers Feb 2012 #28

It's a refreshing break from the puritanical world of automobile ads Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #31

Sharyn McCrumb parodied this brilliantly in "Bimbos of the Death Sun" KamaAina Feb 2012 #32

"Why do sci-fi books from the 60s and 70's have so many scatily-clad women..." greiner3 Feb 2012 #33

How about the 1920's? Edgar Rice Burroughs Baclava Feb 2012 #34

That's one evil looking Gandhi Bucky Feb 2012 #41

it gets better - alien porn! Baclava Feb 2012 #44

Here's the dust jacket from Burrough's "Thuvia, Maid of Mars" Capn Sunshine Feb 2012 #43

If you meant scatologically clad, see the santorum thread! RedCloud Feb 2012 #35

Why was Kilgore Trout my first thought JitterbugPerfume Feb 2012 #37

i owned "that" cover too pitohui Feb 2012 #40

2 reasons pitohui Feb 2012 #38

a humor cover from a local new orleans writer pitohui Feb 2012 #39

There once was a publisher of paperback Gothic novels Aristus Feb 2012 #42

Harlequin Romances? JitterbugPerfume Feb 2012 #45

No, this set of novels went back further than Harlequin. Aristus Feb 2012 #46

I've seen one of those at the thriftstore. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #50

not all were like that Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #47

NO author had control of cover illo in the 1960s pitohui Feb 2012 #53

You may as well ask why The Avengers' ratings went way down Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #48

scatily clad? Matariki Feb 2012 #49

maybe because it sold books Old Troop Feb 2012 #51

Because the covers often had little to do with the stories inside ? eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 #52