A Comment/Review on Carmen Kit’s “Planet Lorelei”
Decided to read this one today because the synopsis was intriguing enough. Carmen Kit’s Planet Lorelei description goes like this:
A strange radio signal reaches the crew of a starship. They can’t stop listening.
As you know by now, I like sci-fi a lot. I grew up watching the likes of Space: 1999, Star Trek: The Next Generation and all the other Treks that followed, Babylon 5, The X-Files, as well as tons of other TV shows and movies, so many that I can’t remember them all and, even if I could, I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to list them all before the day is done so… I sure wasn’t going to let a piece like this pass me by.
The overall concept is quite familiar territory. The author claims it is inspired by an episode of an old animated science fiction TV show (trying to parse which one… if anyone knows the answer please let me know in the comments), and by an even older myth. There’s definitely something siren-y about it all that much is certain. Anyway, mysterious signal intercepted, men immediately captivated by the musicality of it all, source identified and…
Planet Lorelei is home to beautiful women, enchanting women, women whose mellifluous transmission coaxes the male gender into utmost submission. Queen Tomyris is the epitome of power, her natural sensuality heightened by the technological marvel she commands. In a heartbeat, she makes the main protagonist of the story – Captain Riley – realize he’s no match for her by first compelling him to bow (hot!), then kissing the ground she walks on (hotter!) and finally commanding him to kiss her toes (hot as well but it’s a shame women on Planet Lorelei don’t use boots!) Queen Tomyris then takes the captain to her chambers where she enslaves him completely to her pussy. There’s one moment of resistance before that happens that I liked because it gave the character another chance to assert her dominance. If that’s up your alley, you’ll like it, too.
All in all, I enjoyed the story although I feel like it suffers from some sentence structure repetition here and there. In an age where the likes of Enterprise, Millennium Falcon and whatnot are more famous than ever, I also didn’t like the fact that the starship of the tale is just referred to as “starship”. The plot is also somewhat predictable from the moment the Captain and his men arrive at the planet’s surface but this last remark doesn’t detract from the overall feelings of pleasurable rapture it invokes. Where is planet Lorelei again and how soon can I get there to meet the Queen?
This was Carmen Kit’s first green story added to the EMCSA. It will be interesting to see if there’s more in the future or not. If so, I’ll probably check them out too whether they take place in fantasy outer space or somewhere close to home. You should, too.
Thank you for reading.
