Ballantine 117 Paperback Original (1955). Cover Art by Richard Powers
The world is visited by aliens, who turn out to be a race of amazonian sized women dressed like intergalactic cheerleaders, controlled by a Weird Sisters-style cabal of old crones. Their motives seem ambiguous and Madame President seeks appeasement, but the men of the Lone Star state take matters into their own hands, infiltrating the invaders and saving the planet, but more importantly freeing all men from the shame of emasculation in the process!
So it's essentially cowboys vs. amazons, with all the chauvinism, ridiculousness and fun that implies. A terribly dated but amusing piece of hokum, tongue-in-cheek enough to forgive the appalling gender politics. [From a review at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/3234353-the-girls-from-planet...
Ballantine 117 Paperback Original (1955). Cover Art by Richard Powers
The world is visited by aliens, who turn out to be a race of amazonian sized women dressed like intergalactic cheerleaders, controlled by a Weird Sisters-style cabal of old crones. Their motives seem ambiguous and Madame President seeks appeasement, but the men of the Lone Star state take matters into their own hands, infiltrating the invaders and saving the planet, but more importantly freeing all men from the shame of emasculation in the process!
So it's essentially cowboys vs. amazons, with all the chauvinism, ridiculousness and fun that implies. A terribly dated but amusing piece of hokum, tongue-in-cheek enough to forgive the appalling gender politics. [From a review at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/3234353-the-girls-from-planet...