Y'know what the world is missing? Pulp, gratuitous sword & sorcery artwork. And an occasional space opera book cover thrown in too. The kind that most publishing houses and certainly every roleplaying studio is afraid to make because they're a bunch of idiotic, politically correct people who don't understand that masculine men and feminine women are both attractive, but masculine man-jawed you-go girls and soyboys are universally repellent to everyone.
This is a great example of how much Orientalism contributed to early S&S.
Can you see why, as a 12 year old, I immediately fell in love with the John Carter of Mars books with this on the cover of the first volume?
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