Andrew J. Offutt

Andrew J. Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and erotic fiction author.

Quotes

Ardor on Aros (1973)

All page numbers from the mass market first edition published by Dell, ISBN 0-440-00931-6

• To call her a strange woman would be to say that Einstein was a bright fellow.
  • Chapter 5, “The Girl Who Was Not Dejah Thoris” (p. 62)

• I’d have been better off of course, just to have gone along, to have accepted. But as I have pointed out I am not built that way. I kept asking why.
  • Chapter 8, “The Jungle That Disappeared” (p. 89)

• It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip it. You don’t need me to tell you that those of us who worked and paid taxes were slaves to those who didn’t.
  • Chapter 9, “Sophia Loren and Dejah Thoris” (pp. 97-98)

• In a “barbarian” society (or in any society, in wartime), the conquerors naturally rape ever woman in sight. Not even the stern old lonely god of the children of Abraham frowned on that practice!
  • Chapter 11, “The Man Who Was Not Tordos Mors” (p. 135)

• He was that kind of man; every now and then you meet a person who is real, who exists as he is rather than within and behind a mask or three, and within a few minutes you’ve been old friends for twenty years.
  • Chapter 13, “The Custom That Was Not Chivalric” (p. 147)

• “How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”
  • Chapter 14, “The Woman Who Used to be a Witch” (p. 156)

• I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder.
  • Chapter 17, “The Answer That Was True—but STILL Didn’t Satisfy” (pp. 190-191)

The Galactic Rejects (1973)

Page number from the first mass market paperback edition, published by Dell (catalogue# 3361)

• He gave them a sardonic grin, the old wicked look they knew he cultivated. “In case the luck of Berneson ends right now, it’s been sheer boredom knowing you two.”
  • Chapter 15 (p. 136)