On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 08:59:48 -0700, "Gary Forbis" <forbis at accessone.com>
wrote:
>Malcolm McMahon <malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:379ed2c9.1723708 at news.demon.co.uk...>> On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:24:42 -0700, "Gary Forbis" <forbis at accessone.com>
>> wrote:
>> >I believe Kirt Vonnegut came up with the idea in "The Giant Space Fuck"
>> >(sorry, that was it's name as best I remember it.)
>>>> "The Cosmic Rape" by Theodore Sturgeon?
>>There may be a connection but I'm pretty sure of the Vonnegut name.
Well, The Cosmic Rape is certainly related to the subject at hand.
Aliens get into the head of this bum and force him to build a machine,
which starts building other machines etc. joining the human race into a
gestalt entity.
> I
>remember him mentioning somewhere he used to right for Playboy since it
>was looking for filler between the pictures and Sci-Fi mags such as Galaxy
>weren't paying very well. I'm not sure how the Sci-Fi/Porn link was
>established
>but it seems to be pervasive. Maybe it's because both are interesting to
>little boys. I guess the link extends into high-tech.
>
Being a pervert, like taking an interest in Sci-Fi, generally requires
an imagination. The primary division of the world is between weird
people and mundanes. Weird people are generally weird in several ways.
(And no, none of the perverts of my acquaintance have an interest in
little boys.)
