Feb 01
Click for full imageHOLY father of APOLLO! I have it, again! Cat people! Oh alright, we won’t have it just as bad as last time but we should have at least three of them. And some guy with a beard, and an alien city, and purple fonts that burn into your mind.
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:54 am
It’s no RX for Chaos. But there’s something about cat people that cracks me up everytime. Are they all carrying star wars laser swords?
February 1st, 2010 at 10:58 am
That cat in the bottom right hand corner looks pretty annoyed at being half-cropped out of the frame.
See, usually when I start a sentence with the phrase ‘that cat’ it is because I have once again, and to the distress of my interlocutor, lapsed into 1970s hep-talk. But on this occasion the usage is particular.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:09 am
I love the bearded dude (platonic love), Its like all the cat people have posed for a photoshoot oportunity near the city and some bearded dude just sticks his head in the frame… its probably the same dude who always walks past the camera 6/7 times during the same BBC news piece.
As Adam says, that cat is getting peeved, think that was their 10th attempt to get a pic without the beardman.
(the cover, although bad, is a massive improvement on RX for Chaos)
February 1st, 2010 at 11:11 am
That’s the difference between cats and cat people – cat people use human facial expressions.
Oddly I’ve never read a cat people SF novel where one of the cat people has stopped in mid-sentence, hoiked one of its rear legs over its shoulder and started noisily licking its own genitals.
That maybe because I’ve never read a cat people SF novel but I doubt it.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:35 am
Simon> The internet is a big world, I’m sure there is some cat genital licking out there somewhere…. *shivers*
And why do they always evolve from cats? I am sure it is out there somewhere. But I want hamster people!!! Stuffing things in their cheeks for later consumption.
February 1st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
“A delightful pleasure!” exclaims David Weber. Which rather seems to suggest that all his other pleasures are less delightful. Perhaps he’s into S&M. That might explain it.
Good use of launching-rocketship motif, too. If you’re a cover artist and you’re in some doubt that you haven’t quite nailed the “this is SF” brief, stick in a launching rocketship.
February 7th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Christopher ANVIL? Maybe he’s into heavy-handed moralizing.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:18 am
The trouble with aliens is apparently that they do not share the human concept of “personal space.”
December 16th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
When humanity finally encountered intelligent aliens, they did not expect to face… neurotic cat-men!