Eve and the Twenty-Three Adams
- Form
- Short story
- Year
- 1958
Publication history
- 1958: Venture March 1958, Magazine
- 1965: Venture (UK) #20 (April 1965), Magazine
- 1969: Dimension Thirteen, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 215 pp.
- 1971: Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams, Bruna , 156 pp., in Dutch as Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams
- 1979: Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, 448 pp., in French as Eve et les vingt-trois Adams
- 1988: Voir l'invisible, Pocket Mass market paperback, 448 pp., in French as Eve et les 23 Adams
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Comments
Studies have shown (so this story says) that men on long tours of duty in space tend to get a little tense. Sometimes they start to make mistakes, and in deep space, that can be fatal. The reason for this tension: no women. The solution: the Crew Girl. Every ship (this particular one, the Donnybrook, has a crew complement of 23 men) has on the roster a Crew Girl, whose sole duty is to provide sexual release for the men. But what happens when she won't put out? By today's standards, this story borders on offensive. (Borders on? Heck, it is offensive!) Wouldn't it just be easier to let women serve as crew members? As a side note, the table of contents for Dimension Thirteen lists this as Eve and the Twenty-four Adams
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