On 06/12/2023 17.58, pyotr filipivich wrote:

Greetings

This is another one where I can remember a lot of details, like the
cover, the main characters actions, but not minor details like
author's name, book title, the characters' names, year published. But
I think I read it within the last twenty years, maybe.

Science Fiction, interstellar war, "they" have horrendous weapons for
which the kingdom has no defense.

[snip summary]

I've never read it, but it sounds like fun. I hope that somebody can
identify it.

Greetings

This is another one where I can remember a lot of details, like the
cover, the main characters actions, but not minor details like
author's name, book title, the characters' names, year published. But
I think I read it within the last twenty years, maybe.

Science Fiction, interstellar war, "they" have horrendous weapons for
which the kingdom has no defense.

What I recall is the cover art is of the queen leaning on a desk/table
blonde braids plaited into an iron crown. She is not pleased.

Don wrote:

Robert Carnegie wrote:

Don wrote:

Pris Stratton's a little different. She's the platonic love-
interest of a man who doesn't count. Pris is an android with a Nexus-6
brain unit.

... And Horst got me interested in pre-colonial fiction."
[said Pris Stratton]

"You mean old books?" [said John Isidore]

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up."

"Based on what?"

"On imagination. A lot of times they turned out wrong. For
example they wrote about Venus being a jungle paradise with
huge monsters and women in breastplates that glistened." She
eyed him. "Does that interest you? Big women with long
braided blond hair and gleaming breastplates the size of
melons?"

_Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ (PKD)

It occurs to me that the manuscript may not
contain the word "breastplates".

Did not Edgar Rice Burroughs' women, for instance,
often dress au contraire? (In books, I mean.)

The Dec 21 1929 _Argosy_ cover captures the concept:

http://www.philsp.com/data/images/a/argosy_19291221.jpg

Hmm. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maza_of_the_Moon>

"Ted Dustin, an American inventor, seeks to win a prize of
one million dollars by being the first person to touch the Moon
with an object launched from Earth. He devises a huge gun,
which fires upon the surface of the Moon. Shortly thereafter,
the Moon fires back, and war breaks out between the planet
and its satellite."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Adelbert_Kline>
implies that "warlike yellow aliens" were in line with
Kline's terrestrial topics, inasmuch as he got the cover
on _Oriental Stories_ with "The Dragoman's Slave Girl",
which is about where we started. Doubtfully alleged
rivalry between Kline and Edgar Rice Burroughs
("I made it up!" - Donald A. Wollheim) may consist,
I think, of the sincerest form of flattery.

Greetings

This is another one where I can remember a lot of details, like the
cover, the main characters actions, but not minor details like
author's name, book title, the characters' names, year published. But
I think I read it within the last twenty years, maybe.

Science Fiction, interstellar war, "they" have horrendous weapons for
which the kingdom has no defense.

What I recall is the cover art is of the queen leaning on a desk/table
blonde braids plaited into an iron crown. She is not pleased.