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    Venus Is a Man’s World
    Venus Is a Man’s World
    Venus Is a Man’s World
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    Venus Is a Man’s World

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 12, 2016
    ISBN9781515403791
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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 Not bad stuff, if somewhat outdated at times.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!

      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 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.

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    Venus Is a Man’s World - William Tenn

    Venus Is a Man’s World

    by William Tenn

    Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / gromovataya

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0379-1

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    I’ve always said that even if Sis is seven years older than me—and a girl besides—she don’t always know what’s best. Put me on a spaceship jam-packed with three hundred females just aching to get themselves husbands in the one place they’re still to be had—the planet Venus—and you know I’ll be in trouble.

    Bad trouble. With the law, which is the worst a boy can get into.

    Twenty minutes after we lifted from the Sahara Spaceport, I wriggled out of my acceleration hammock and started for the door of our cabin.

    Now you be careful, Ferdinand, Sis called after me as she opened a book called Family Problems of the Frontier Woman. Remember you’re a nice boy. Don’t make me ashamed of you.

    I tore down the corridor. Most of the cabins had purple lights on in front of the doors, showing that the girls were still inside their hammocks. That meant only the ship’s crew was up and about. Ship’s crews are men; women are too busy with important things like government to run ships. I felt free all over—and happy. Now was my chance to really see the Eleanor Roosevelt!

    *

    It was hard to believe I was traveling in space at last. Ahead and behind me, all the way up to where the companionway curved in out of sight, there was nothing but smooth black wall and smooth white doors—on and on and on. Gee, I thought excitedly, this is one big ship!

    Of course, every once in a while I would run across a big scene of stars in the void set in the wall; but they were only pictures. Nothing that gave the feel of great empty space like I’d read about in The Boy Rocketeers, no portholes, no visiplates, nothing.

    So when I came to the crossway, I stopped for a second, then turned left. To the right, see, there was Deck Four, then Deck Three, leading inward past the engine fo’c’sle to the main jets

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