dreaming of mars

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Somehow, I managed to grow up in an era and neighborhood where every family I knew had an entire wall of generic VHS tapes, lovingly labelled as films taped off HBO and Skinamax (usually containing a running order like: “Night of the Living Dead - Beethoven 2 - Robocop - The Care Bears Movie” because You Use Whatever Goddamn Tape Is In The VCR At

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[spiffystuff]

Ah, Piers Anthony. I think I read one of his books as a teen as well and was pretty much like "buh? Did I just read a bad sci-fi sex fantasy??" XD I'm not sure which book it was though, except it attracted me because the cover was a pretty jelly-fish-like alien thing playing hopscotch.

SO BETRAYED!

(actually, I don't think I've seen total recall, so I didn't read that part!)

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I think...I may have read that - was that the one that was basically a long-ass defense of pedophilia (as long as the pre-pubescent girl is into it, which some totally are [he insists]), plus alien goop monsters? I feel icky just remembering that one.

The library in my childhood town was pretty spare on scifi, so with a junkie's desperation I kept reading the PA drivel from time to time. Even though it always made me incoherently mad. Worse was his non-fiction about writing, which could be summed up as "I'm normal manly manliness and you are all prudes just waiting for the right man to raep you into happiness."

You pretty much got all my reaction to Total Recall if you looked at Arnie up there :D

[spiffystuff]

Yes, yes that's it! DX Besides the two main adult couples there were two pairs of kids (like, 10-12 I think) who were trying to have sex with their friend/fostersister/mentor/othersquick :/
I think I was /barely/ pubescent when I read it and I vaguely thinking "wtf is with these kids! Who acts like this??" XD

Fortunately my library had lots of stuff so I went on to other (also often bad, but not as bad) authors :P

Gosh, Piers Anthony sounds like he'd be into Gor. XD

Reading a lot of Sci Fi at once, I noticed a... propensity for several authors to come up with societies where everyone was naked and has casual sex :P Niven, Heinlein, and Piers Anthony specifically. Ffffff!

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Reading a lot of Sci Fi at once, I noticed a... propensity for several authors to come up with societies where everyone was naked and has casual sex :P

And worse, it's really BORING casual sex! Tab A, slot B, light cigarette and stroke ego. Feh.

[scarlet_carsons]

Oh man Total Recall. For some reason it always gets mixed up with the Running Man in my mind and I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting ice-skating opera singers with three boobs. I will always remember the wholly gratuitous vacuum eye-popping scenes, however.

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Between your icon and Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting ice-skating opera singers with three boobs MY BRAIN IS BROKEN FOREVER.