Comments on: The Trouble with Aliens

By: A.R.Yngve

A.R.Yngve — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:52:28 +0000

When humanity finally encountered intelligent aliens, they did not expect to face… neurotic cat-men!

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:18:14 +0000

The trouble with aliens is apparently that they do not share the human concept of “personal space.”

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:28:32 +0000

Christopher ANVIL? Maybe he’s into heavy-handed moralizing.

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:00:10 +0000

“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.

By: SI

SI — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:35:56 +0000

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.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:11:19 +0000

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.

By: CSA

CSA — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:09:49 +0000

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)

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:58:46 +0000

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.

By: SI

SI — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:54:48 +0000

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?