Cat Woman

From my daughter, who is also an afficionado of GSS:

I couldn't find the link to this one in the GSS site search, but it seems like one we have seen before. Meow!

Does the RH cat have lower jaw sabreteeth?

That's Telzey Amberdon, and the beast on her right is a crest-cat. They did have sabre-teeth (and were tough customers in lots of other ways.)

That feeling when you and your pals are ready to kick psychic ass and you suddenly realize you're not wearing your bra.

>4 bam2001: Telzey was 15: "Fifteen years old, genius level, brown as a berry and not at all bad looking in her sunbriefs... ". I love Schmitz in a low-key sort of way, but sometimes you wonder.

>5 haydninvienna: I've read and liked the books, and never would have guessed this was Telzey.

I mean, she wasn't green or had red eyes... this chick isn't brown as a berry! Or cute.

This is one case where the later cover was better:
https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Against-Telzey-Amberdon-Book/dp/0441845754
(this does look like a teenager with a tan)

Even a BAEN!!!youknowthedrill cover of various stories is easier to look at:
https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Against-Telzey-Amberdon-Book/dp/0441845754

(ISFDB is having connectivity issues right now)

>3 haydninvienna:

I meant the righthand one from the viewer’s perspective. The crested cat on the girl’s right clearly has conventional upper jaw sabreteeth.

>6 GSSex-noob: Thought I'd get clever. The quotation came from the text on Project Gutenberg, which includes John Schoenherr's illustrations. The story was in the June 1962 issue of Analog. I wondered if just possibly Schoenherr had had the cover illustration for that issue as well, and found the cover on Flickr. Schoenherr did indeed have the cover but for a different story, "The Weather Man" by Theodore L Thomas.

As you value your sanity, do not do what I just did, and search "Telzey Amberdon cover illustrations" on DuckDuckGo. You will find, for example, this: https://not.pulpcovers.com/post/9303362179/kelly-freas-the-lion-game-telzey-ambe.... Click at your own risk--noi insecure or anything, just dreadful. Kelly, what were you thinking?

It pains me to say that the Baen covers are about the best of a pretty dismal lot. Too much Baen T&A, but generally neither boring nor awful.

ETA The Schmitz 'woman'('she' isn't human) I'd most like to see drawn is Pagadan, the gorgeous psi assassin who features in Agent of Vega, but there don't seem to be any cover illustrations of her.

>6 GSSex-noob:

You probably didn’t intend to post the same link twice?

>10 AndreasJ: Perhaps this cover? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/613rEFFpYWL._SY445_SX342_.jpg

@haydninvienna: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Rt75c6uiL.jpg https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaez7nH5KnYodrLTfzLYU...

>4 bam2001: It may (or may not) be relevant to point out that cats, even big cats such as the one pictured, have six teats; whereas, cat women have only two.

>11 bam2001: I’d forgotten about that Baen cover, and I actually have the book, on kindle! Not impressed with either of the others. They’re just human women in silver wigs.

All I can say is that it must be very cold there.

>10 AndreasJ: No, but @bam2001 has corrected my error.

>14 MrsLee: The girl's running around in sunbriefs, it can't be that cold.