#if 'I'm worth a thousand giraffes' isn't engraved on my tombstone i'm! not! dying!

[solarissantaella]

Golden-age sci fi is so goofy out of context. I'm skimming through an anthology curated by Isaac Asimov (for reasons that will soon be revealed) and turning to any page at random is basically guaranteed to show something ridiculous.

Highlights include:

a futuristic baseball game

a woman concerned about whether or not Water Babies, which seem to be grown in tubes, are taught to ride dolphins

a lot of sorcerers, for some reason (seriously, sorcerers came up in like 3 different random stories I happened to flip to)

a woman prostituting herself to a shady alien king

the phrase "Ah, the giraffes. For every one of me there's a hundred of them. But I'm worth a thousand giraffes."

#sci fi #quotes #isaac asimov #if 'I'm worth a thousand giraffes' isn't engraved on my tombstone i'm! not! dying!