with apologies to W S Gilbert:
There once was a little
Venusian queen
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
Who
landed her spacecraft on our village green
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
And she asked me why
authors of modern renown
All wrote about folk
from the wrong side of town
In erotic potboilers
that folk can't put down!
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
I said if you really
desire a good book
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
You'd better not
judge them by how covers look
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
Though their
heroines may be all scantily-clad
Though their
back-jacket blurbs may be wickedly bad
Their repetitive
content will just drive you mad!
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
Now in stories which
are of the space-opera kind
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
There are lashings
of danger and sinister minds
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
But I'm glad to
relate after everything's said
Though there may be
some schmaltz when the two heroes wed
That the bulk of the
action won't take place in bed!
Oh tell me a good
sci-fi story!
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