The Square Root of Man
by William Tenn
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Women rule because of their greater ability to use and understand logic while men can't be trusted to be anything other than emotional. 'Venus Is a Man's World' takes you on a humorous, satirical romp that only William Tenn could pull off. Wry, witty, and intelligent.Tags
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Short-story collection, of Golden-Age sf, published between the mid-1940s and the late 1960s. Not bad stuff, if somewhat outdated at times. Historically interesting!
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Alexander the Bait - An ingenious entrepreneur uses men's innate greed to get them to embark on space travel and finally get to the moon.
The Last Bounce - The final mission of one of the adventurous Space Scouts - bold young men who explore new planets, but all too often don't make it back alive. Will he finally marry his fiancee and settle down - or meet his end in space?
She Only Goes Out at Night - What happens when the son of a respected country doctor falls in love with a vampire?
My Mother Was a Witch - A memoir-type reminiscence of the inventive curses of show more Jewish mothers...
The Jester - In the future, a comedian tries to use a robot to ghost-write his jokes for him... but the joke ends up being on him.
Confusion Cargo - A doctor, passenger on an interstellar liner, is unwillingly pulled into a situation when illegal female stowaways are found on board, and is asked to witness against them. But the doctor has a secret too...
Venus Is a Man's World - On Earth, dominant women outnumber men - but on the rough colonies of Venus, the opposite holds true. A boy gets taken by his sister, who's in search of a husband, on a trip out to Venus - and when he finds a stowaway on board, unwittingly throws a chain of events into play...
Consulate - A couple of men out fishing get picked up by aliens and find out about the massive interstellar federation out there... but are they ready to be consuls for Earth?
The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day ["Did Your Coffee Taste Funny This Morning?"] - The requisite 1960's acid trip story. show less
includes:
Alexander the Bait - An ingenious entrepreneur uses men's innate greed to get them to embark on space travel and finally get to the moon.
The Last Bounce - The final mission of one of the adventurous Space Scouts - bold young men who explore new planets, but all too often don't make it back alive. Will he finally marry his fiancee and settle down - or meet his end in space?
She Only Goes Out at Night - What happens when the son of a respected country doctor falls in love with a vampire?
My Mother Was a Witch - A memoir-type reminiscence of the inventive curses of show more Jewish mothers...
The Jester - In the future, a comedian tries to use a robot to ghost-write his jokes for him... but the joke ends up being on him.
Confusion Cargo - A doctor, passenger on an interstellar liner, is unwillingly pulled into a situation when illegal female stowaways are found on board, and is asked to witness against them. But the doctor has a secret too...
Venus Is a Man's World - On Earth, dominant women outnumber men - but on the rough colonies of Venus, the opposite holds true. A boy gets taken by his sister, who's in search of a husband, on a trip out to Venus - and when he finds a stowaway on board, unwittingly throws a chain of events into play...
Consulate - A couple of men out fishing get picked up by aliens and find out about the massive interstellar federation out there... but are they ready to be consuls for Earth?
The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day ["Did Your Coffee Taste Funny This Morning?"] - The requisite 1960's acid trip story. show less
Indeholder "Alexander The Bait", "The Last Bounce", "She Only Goes Out At Night", "My Mother Was A Witch", "The Jester", "Confusion Cargo", "Venus Is A Man's World", "Consulate", "The Lemon-green Spaghetti-loud Dynamite-dribble Day".
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William Tenn, the pseudonym of Philip Klass, was born in London, England on May 9, 1920. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and served as a combat engineer in the United States Army during World War II. After leaving the Army, he worked as a technical editor with an Air Force radar and radio laboratory and was employed by Bell Labs. He taught show more English and comparative literature at Penn State University for 24 years. He wrote academic articles, essays, one novel entitled Of Men and Monsters, and more than 60 short stories including Child's Play, Venus and the Seven Sexes, Down Among the Dead Men, The Liberation of Earth, Time in Advance, and On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi. He received the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999. He died of congestive heart failure on February 7, 2010 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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6 Titles By William Tenn (Ballantine)
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