On an artist retreat, a man gets blown 100 years into the future where, among other things, group marriage and group parenting are the norm.
—Michael Main
“Who are you talking about?”

“My husbands.” She shook her head dolefully. “To find five more difficult men would be positively Martian.”

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Variants

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  1. “Nice Girl with 5 Husbands” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1951.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Fritz Leiber
  2. alternative title.
    “Nice Girl with Five Husbands” by Fritz Leiber, in A Pail of Air (Ballantine Books, July 1964).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Fritz Leiber

Translations

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  1. Dutch.
    “Aardig meisje met vijf echtgenoten” by Fritz Leiber, in Tijdruimte voor springers (Meulenhoff, 1976).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Fritz Leiber
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Ivain de Léon
    Pon Ruiter
  2. French.
    “Les 5 maris de Loïse” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxie [Galaxy] #2, January 1954 [We don’t know whether the two French translations are the same, apart from the minor title differece.].
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Fritz Leiber
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons [uncredited]
  3. French.
    “Les cinq maris de Loïs” by Fritz Leiber, in Trésors et pièges du temps [Treasures and traps of time], edited by Michel Demuth (OPTA, February 1974) [We don’t know whether the two French translations are the same, apart from the minor title differece.].
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Fritz Leiber
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons