Publication talk:CPTVNTHFLN1951

I found this book when I was at school in 1953...

It was my first introduction to science fiction with a lot of sex and sado masochistic overtones.

In one particular chapter in the book there were graphic details of a nude girl alien fighting a horned beast with a weapon which was strapped to her arm.

She fought the beast until the battle went against her, the arm with the weapon was ripped off and she died in dreadful circumstances. This was all in front of a huge crowd in an SF version of the Coliseum.

This has stayed in my mind ever since and here, after nearly 60 years, it is as vivid as it was then....

It was also a young mans introduction to human/alien coplulation and group orgies.

I kept the soft back book under my bed and one day it had disappeared...I blame my Mum !!

I would be delighted to read this book again now that I am much more mature and not so easily shocked.