Talk:Venus on the Half-Shell

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I just read the 1984 Panther Press edition, and Simon did not commit suicide at the end. Is someone being prankish, or do the editions differ, as I haven't read the others...

Yeah, that's not the ending at all! (Uh, spoiler alert!) Simon aimlessly drifts through space in his ship, unaware that with every shift to light speed, he's killing a being of pure energy that exists in another dimension. After all of these creatures are sapped dry of their strength, Simon's ship is stranded in a remote corner of the universe.

He lands on a planet inhabited by omnipotent cockroaches, which were responsible for bringing intelligence to the rest of the galaxy. Frustrated, Simon demands from these unlikely gods the meaning of life and the universe, and asks why mankind was created only to suffer. The roaches have but one reply...

"Why not?"

M.Neko

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Italics in the lead of the article
As of now, the lead into the article has the has the script for italics around it, for me at least. Is it just me? I don't know how to fix it.

Publication Date
I'm not sure what the publication date should say in the article, seeing as it was first published in two parts. According to the author's website, the first was in December of 1974, and the second was in January of 1975. Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this? -Nonsequiturial (talk) 11:01, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Does anything happen in the book?
I mean, right now it has a table of some of the characters, but no summary of it's content (which seemingly it had before, according to the discussion above). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.25.116.103 (talk) 08:56, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

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Origin of title
It was probably originally a humorous way of referring to Botticelli's painting ("on the half-shell" refers to a method of serving oysters) before it became the title of this book. AnonMoos (talk) 19:52, 23 April 2017 (UTC)