Jul 19
Click for full imageFrank Comments: I just thought it was cute because it was another Campbell Award nomination and the artist put a nude girl on the cover, even if it was tasteful back-side nudity.
Published 1995
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Frank Comments: I just thought it was cute because it was another Campbell Award nomination and the artist put a nude girl on the cover, even if it was tasteful back-side nudity.
Published 1995
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July 19th, 2012 at 9:43 am
“Let(he) me out!” (a must-have groaner)
July 19th, 2012 at 10:27 am
“You can do it! Be the Dolphin!”
“Oh damn. Bob, get me another one. This one’s drowned too.”
July 19th, 2012 at 11:38 am
“And you simply must try the spa’s divine flotation tank. No, you can’t get out, but it’s sooo relaxing.”
July 19th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
It’s actually a beautiful painting. My pedantic inner optics person tells me liquid-filled cylinders don’t work like that, but a person visually stretched out tremendously horizontally due to diffraction and lensing effects would be a lot harder to recognise as human, so good use of artistic license there.
July 19th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
The only thing that concerns me here is the slight excess of bubbles emanating from the region of her derriere.
July 19th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Damn, Phil beat me too it: where are those bubbles coming from?!
July 19th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
She looks a lot happier than the fellow at back left.
@Alessandra:note that the light from the monitors is distorted. Let’s wave our hands about and say ‘polarized light’ and ‘phase conjugation’ and look clever.
July 19th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I hadn’t noticed the fellow on the left. He DOES look troubled, as if he’s been doing the Houdini trick and it’s gone wrong.
I also hadn’t noticed (until now) that the lady appears to have some slender curved wires attached to her shoulder blades, going… where? (Or is this just a scratch on the cover?)
July 19th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Dolphins? Better get Brin.
July 19th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
The blue and red lights around the top of her container say: _ _ . _ . _
That;s international morse code for ‘G, N, T’.
Just thought you ought to know.
July 19th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
@fred: I hang my head in misery because I get it. XD
@Adam: a trendy acronym for Girl’s Nudie Tube, no doubt.
July 20th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Or maybe she’s floating in a gin and tonic? Hence the bubbles.
July 27th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
@Phil: I think the “slender curved wires” were part of the artwork. I think I took them to be tubes.
This photo was something of a reply to Alessandra Kelley’s comment here:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/06/the-door-into-fire-2/#comment-186197
August 3rd, 2012 at 6:37 pm
You KNOW it must be Nebula-worthy if there’s nudity on the cover!