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The Girls from Planet 5 by Richard Wilson. One of those books that you buy solely for the cover, this smelt like old basement when I picked it up, and had a back cover blurb that put it in the ranks of The Iron Dream. Trouble is, I don't actually buy these books just to look pretty – sooner or later I actually read them. This is both ridiculous and vaguely offensive – the plot concerns Earth at the end of the 20th century, where women have taken over politics, and the last male refuge is (guess where?) Texas. Of course those “biddies” don't know what to do when Amazonian warriors from outer space show up, so it's up to our coyboyish hero and the rest of his Texan buddies to save the planet. It's over the top enough to work as satire, but I get the feeling from the author's introduction that he was all too serious about his views at the time.
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