Girls for the Slime God — Isaac Asimov

GIRLS FOR THE SLIME GOD is a collection based around three Henry Kuttner stories published in 1938, stories that (almost) actually delivered on the lurid promises of the pulp magazine covers of the day. Besides the Kuttner stories, the 1960 Playboy article by William Knoles that sparked the interest of future editor Mike Resnick and the story science fiction legend Isaac Asimov was prompted to write in response are included. As are the script that Mike's wife Carol adapted from one of the stories and Barry Malzberg's afterword that sheds a bit of additional light on the Asimov story. Wrapped in a cover by Hugo Award nominee Peggy Ransom, GIRLS FOR THE SLIME GOD is a fascinating look into an era when heroic spacemen saved scantily-clad women from bug-eyed monsters and evil scientists bent on galactic conquest.