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Here's a little Yule present for y'all: Adult-oriented "Furry" stories are older than we think. Just for example, look what I found in my copy of Fantastic Story Magazine, September 1938 edition.
That magazine cost the princely sum of 25 cents, back then. Man, that wasn't just another era, it was another world.
That magazine cost the princely sum of 25 cents, back then. Man, that wasn't just another era, it was another world.
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Oh, I'm intimately familiar with this story. A virus gets loose and corrupts, or maybe corrects, an old glitch in the Human genome. When I was about 14, Dad gave me all of his old Science Fiction books and magazines, setting me on a path to...
Anyway, de Camp was a great author. See if you can round up his 'Johnny Black' stories, starting with The Command. He was not in step with the other authors of his time, he was far ahead of them!
Anyway, de Camp was a great author. See if you can round up his 'Johnny Black' stories, starting with The Command. He was not in step with the other authors of his time, he was far ahead of them!
I've read this story. It is one of the science fiction stories that is indirectly about anthropomorphism. Very interesting twist in the sf speculation on how most of our cultures would react to such a big physical change.
I also remember this illustration. I remember thinking that it was done by the illustrator Frank Kelly Freas, but I think 1938 was too early for his professional work. The artist (whoever they were) is very good at pushing us right up to the edge of the "Uncanny Valley" but not pushing us over. He's helped by using all the visual conventions of what would usually be considered an 'attractive' pinup. Accessories, standard attractive female face, expression, & head-hair. The pose would fit what was called 'a Vargas pose', named after one of the more famous slick men's magazine pin-up artists. But the fur looks so coarse and shaggy.... She has to be attractive; there are all those signals that say we are supposed to see her that way. That jarring dissonance is a very excellent illustration for Mr. DeCamp's story.
Timeless illustration. Pin-up models posing on exotic animal-pattern furniture are still a major trope.
I also remember this illustration. I remember thinking that it was done by the illustrator Frank Kelly Freas, but I think 1938 was too early for his professional work. The artist (whoever they were) is very good at pushing us right up to the edge of the "Uncanny Valley" but not pushing us over. He's helped by using all the visual conventions of what would usually be considered an 'attractive' pinup. Accessories, standard attractive female face, expression, & head-hair. The pose would fit what was called 'a Vargas pose', named after one of the more famous slick men's magazine pin-up artists. But the fur looks so coarse and shaggy.... She has to be attractive; there are all those signals that say we are supposed to see her that way. That jarring dissonance is a very excellent illustration for Mr. DeCamp's story.
Timeless illustration. Pin-up models posing on exotic animal-pattern furniture are still a major trope.
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