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Oct 28

NOOOOOOO! My favourite rocket! I mean ... Jeff!!! That's Jeff getting BBQ'ed right? Click for slightly larger image

Frank Comments: Looks kinda rough to be that guy seen in silhouette out near the rocket’s exhaust.
Published 1963

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 5.75 out of 10)
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24 Responses to “Great Science Fiction Adventures”

  1. SI Says:

    The perils of your ignition system being a guy with a match.

  2. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    Is this a space version of ‘Dido and Aeneas’? And why does it look less dramatic and more stupid?

  3. THX 1138 Says:

    Polish a floor and land a rocket on it? You might as well set a mantrap.

  4. A.R.Yngve Says:

    Is that hat trying to eat her head??

  5. Bibliomancer Says:

    Blasted dude reminds me of this unlucky frog.

  6. A.R.Yngve Says:

    Only moral restraint prevents me from typing THE GREATEST MICHAEL JACKSON JOKE EVER.

  7. fred Says:

    Great Science Fiction Breasts That Don’t Match

  8. Perry Armstrong Says:

    @Dead Stuff WBT(2): It’s actually a scene from ‘Davros of the Opera’:

    “Behold, she is singing to bring down the Thal rocket!”

  9. Tat Wood Says:

    @ Dead Stuff (2):’ When I am laid, am laid on Mars, may my breast create no trouble, no trouble in my sarong’

  10. Tat Wood Says:

    After yesterday, this must be the second-weirdest ‘I Love Lucy’ episode ever.

  11. B. Chiclitz Says:

    Hey, you guys leaning into the blast—how do you manage to do that? And do you think it is wise?

  12. Anna T. Says:

    @fred: Indeed. I suspect they are actually runaway water balloons inside her shirt.

    And given as how previous commenters have already noted her resemblance to an opera singer, may I just congratulate @Perry Armstrong on his joke. What inspired it – her hat or her clothes?

  13. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    @Tat: if you are laid. 😉

    @AR: Share it FAST, before the admins start moderating the quotes!

  14. Perry Armstrong Says:

    @AnnaT: not her hat or her clothes, but her pose, and her nose.

  15. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    @Anna, Perry: And her woes are not exposed in prose. She can curse in verse, which is worse.

  16. A.R.Yngve Says:

    It is possible to (maliciously) misread the title as
    GREAT SCIENCE
    ————————-
    FICTION ADVENTURES

    …whatever that is.

  17. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    @AR: Maybe that’s things such as the phlogiston theory or the Piltdown man, where people did some impressive research for science later shown to be completely wrong.

  18. infoqueen Says:

    “Noooo!! That’s my flight!! My luggage is already on-board that rocket!”

  19. Revellion Says:

    Draw 2 boobs. I don’t care if it looks “wrong”. Everyone knows women have 2 boobs so lets see them.

  20. anon Says:

    @Revellion: So that’s what the guy in front looking at: weird boobs.

  21. Emster Says:

    @infoqueen (#18) – my thoughts exactly – in the future we will have rockets and really funky looking hats, but we will still frantically run through the airport and miss our flights… so much for technology…

    (PS I love this groovy old cover art – sure beats the photoshopped crap being foisted on us SF fans these days)

  22. Bruce A Munro Says:

    “PS I love this groovy old cover art – sure beats the photoshopped crap being foisted on us SF fans these days”

    @Emster: tell me about it. There is good digital art, but so many book covers (and not just in SF) seem phoned in nowadays.

  23. Max Bathroom Says:

    @Emster
    Dead right.

  24. GSS ex-noob Says:

    @Emster: and, despite what we see at GSS, there was good art back in the day, too, all hand-painted with actual oil paints and canvas.

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