JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This adventure ("Radio Planet vs. the Ant Men") sounds more like a Captain Beefheart song than a fantazine for kids/young adults/whatever, but there it is--and what the cover for the magazine features in spite of the article title was yet another (dazed) woman in sci-fi distress. In the panoply of sci-fi-danger-women this one is pretty composed and dressed relatively, this of ccourse is relative to all of the other who have their dresses falling/slashed/dissolving/torn/falling of, revealing the Great Secrets of Composed and Dangerous Sexuality. In any event, there seemed to be many instances of women-needing-rescue--and in many circumstances they are tending towards nakedness or its suggestion, and have their arms dangling at their sides. Here's a quick review of some of the covers that might have put the "X" in "se_uality":
Images sources:
Retropolis http://shop.webomator.com/retropolis/
The Society Pages http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/08/07/saving-the-women-war-and-science-fiction/
IZ Reloaded http://izreloaded.blogspot.com/2008/02/classic-horror-and-sci-fi-movie-posters.html
Robots for Robots http://www.robotsforrobots.net/viewtopic.php?id=4605
The particularly weird thing is how naff the Forbidden Planet poster is: it's the only one of the bunch that has stood the test of time (oh, maybe except This Island Earth, but I think that one is cr*p) yet the poster is completely misleading and irrelevant.
Posted by: Ray Girvan | 18 October 2011 at 06:34 PM