Andrew J. Offutt

American author and editor (1934–2013)

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

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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)
  • 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)
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)
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