If he stays crouched in that position any longer than ten seconds he’ll get cramp in all the worst places a boy can get cramp in that kind of situation. Not even the octopus masseur in the pool could help him.
Judging solely by the cover, this book looks like a low-quality James Bond ripoff. And then you see the Baen logo and realize that no, wait, this is Science Fiction . . . that you’re not at all interested in reading, because of the excess of Scantily Clad Women™.
It must be terribly dull working in the Baen Art Department.
Donna Leprous
Funny Old Gary
Imploded by Cash Knaiv
“Son of scientific genius: Mi chica es un geco.” — Action Tunes Sheet
The Zilch Citi vice nation saga
Mission Report: 007
The Hugo Drax Affair
Conclusion: Bond failed to prevent launch of the Moonraker missile in time, as a consequence of his pathological obsession for pausing to take selfies with lingerie models.
Chinese TS Eliot says: The moonlight shines on Mrs. Porter/And on her daughter/And on her two other daughters/They wash their feet in glacial melt water
@Tat 20—I appreciate Dead Stuff’s scruples, but let’s just get it out there: if two forms have the same number of holes they are equivalent. This is the famous coffee mug-to-donut example in topology, and I suspect in some way it applies to Flandry’s world as well.
Full disclosure: I am pretty illiterate in math (innumerate?), but I always remember this example from a math for idiots class I took in college.
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October 13th, 2015 at 1:08 pm
If he stays crouched in that position any longer than ten seconds he’ll get cramp in all the worst places a boy can get cramp in that kind of situation. Not even the octopus masseur in the pool could help him.
October 13th, 2015 at 2:13 pm
No other comments necessary. BAEN mocked for charity.
http://jimhines.livejournal.com/667303.html
October 13th, 2015 at 2:34 pm
Oh man… that link Fred. SO good!
October 13th, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Hey @Tag Wizard – how about a “Pussy Galore” tag?
October 13th, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Hey Bibliomancer – how about we reinstate comment moderation?
October 13th, 2015 at 7:21 pm
Judging solely by the cover, this book looks like a low-quality James Bond ripoff. And then you see the Baen logo and realize that no, wait, this is Science Fiction . . . that you’re not at all interested in reading, because of the excess of Scantily Clad Women™.
It must be terribly dull working in the Baen Art Department.
October 13th, 2015 at 7:33 pm
I got the “big gun”
It’s standing proud
My “rocket” ‘s rising
Straight up into the clouds
Over-compensatin’
Savin’ my love for you.
October 13th, 2015 at 8:20 pm
Donna Leprous
Funny Old Gary
Imploded by Cash Knaiv
“Son of scientific genius: Mi chica es un geco.” — Action Tunes Sheet
The Zilch Citi vice nation saga
October 13th, 2015 at 8:41 pm
Chances that there is anything in this book half so salacious as what is on the cover = .000000031%
October 13th, 2015 at 11:03 pm
That rocket launching in the background – it’s Moonraker!
October 14th, 2015 at 12:36 am
Stupid sexy Flandry!
October 14th, 2015 at 1:51 am
@fred: I feel dirty, yet strangely intrigued…
October 14th, 2015 at 3:15 am
Mission Report: 007
The Hugo Drax Affair
Conclusion: Bond failed to prevent launch of the Moonraker missile in time, as a consequence of his pathological obsession for pausing to take selfies with lingerie models.
October 14th, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Woman 1: “Dominic, please put away that gun, relax and have some fun. Are you overcompensating again?”
Flandry: “Overcompensating? What’re you insinuating? This is about the size of my wiener, isn’t it? There’s nothing wrong with it! NOTHING!!”
Woman 2: “Then why are you unscrewing the silencer… and screwing on another silencer twice as big?”
Flandry: “Can’t a man attend to his gun in peace? Does everything have to ‘mean’ something? Lay off! I have a headache.”
Woman 3 (sighs): “Why am I not surprised… girls, let’s go to the sauna and party while Dominic here tries to make his ‘gun’ look bigger.”
Woman 4: “Bye, Dominic! Don’t drop your gun in the pool!”
Flandry: “Yeah, yeah, go away. Why would I dr…” *SPLASH* “DAMMIT!!”
October 15th, 2015 at 1:34 pm
@ A.R.Yngve – an epic retelling. As Young Flandry got older, Captain Flandry lowered his ambitions to disappointing only one woman instead of four.
October 15th, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Chinese T.S. Eliot says: “young man with big silencer on gun, things end not with a bang,
but a whimper.
October 15th, 2015 at 6:45 pm
Chinese TS Eliot says: The moonlight shines on Mrs. Porter/And on her daughter/And on her two other daughters/They wash their feet in glacial melt water
October 15th, 2015 at 6:50 pm
What she said to Flandry: “Hurry up please, it’s time.”
October 17th, 2015 at 4:16 pm
IT’S YA BOY YOUNG FLANDRY
READY TO DROP THE HOTTEST MIXTAPE OF 2998
October 18th, 2015 at 1:41 pm
I want to know who shelved this next to ‘Essential Topology’.
October 18th, 2015 at 11:33 pm
@Tat: I’d explain why, but then the Tag Wizard would insist all comments be moderated…
October 19th, 2015 at 9:50 am
@DSWBT: I think mode-rating all comments would be quite interesting.
Not doing it, just to be clear, but seeing the results.
December 11th, 2015 at 8:17 am
This type of cover needs a new subject tag:
“TW” (Tiny Wiener)
December 11th, 2015 at 4:41 pm
@Tat 20—I appreciate Dead Stuff’s scruples, but let’s just get it out there: if two forms have the same number of holes they are equivalent. This is the famous coffee mug-to-donut example in topology, and I suspect in some way it applies to Flandry’s world as well.
Full disclosure: I am pretty illiterate in math (innumerate?), but I always remember this example from a math for idiots class I took in college.
December 12th, 2015 at 8:45 am
Is this what they call a shelfie?
December 13th, 2015 at 1:27 pm
Listen, Flandry… They’re playing your song!
“AA-AND IIII-EEE-IIIIII… WILL AALL-WAYS LOVE GUU-UUU-UUUNSS…”
August 18th, 2020 at 12:45 am
In view of all the ladies with no clothes on, I propose a retitling : Young Laundry.