"A rocketing, sensational exposé of sin in space."

§ November 12th, 2007 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on "A rocketing, sensational exposé of sin in space."

Just in case you were wondering where this week’s corner box icon came from…well, we acquired an enormous collection of science fiction novels, spanning several decades, and this was one of them:


Isn’t that fantastic? Dig the back cover synopsis:


This novel, written by Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril under the pseudonym of “Cyril Judd,” originally came out with the title Outpost Mars. The publisher of Sin in Space, Beacon Press, was known for occasionally “sexing” up the generally non-salacious books to improve sales. Sex sells…who knew?

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