Guardian Of The Crystal Gate

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Robert Silverberg actually wrote Guardian Of The Crystal Gate based on this cover.

“In fact, after I had been part of his staff for six months or so, he paid me the considerable compliment of asking me to write a story around a cover painting that Ed Valigursky, one of his best artists, had just brought in.
The painting showed two attractive young ladies in short tunics fiercely wrestling atop a huge diamond.”

You can read the whole thing here

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Sin Census

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“Hired Husbands Provided Wanton Wives!”

What does that even mean?!

HELP WANTED: FEMALE!
Brian Reynolds hired men but it was their wives he wanted… and their wives he took in any way that struck his lustful fancy! Not playing to his torrid bedroom tune meant no paychecks for his tortured employees, and the melody ranged the scale of sin from the deepest blue notes of desire lo the highest pitch of passion. From coast to coast the tireless lover plied his passion trade for all the bedtime profits the traffic would bear while wronged husbands seethed and their wanton mates begged for more until the final wicked pay-off from too many women for sale!

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