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”:
