She’s not having any sex, finite, infinite or ultimate, until (a) he wakes from his drug-and-booze-induced torpor, and (b) she finds the zipper on that body suit!
@DSWBT—this cover seems to have a lot of personal resonance. Is it safe then to assume that you are the gentleman portrayed, or a reasonable facsimile thereof?
(Someday we should share ex-stories over a cyber ale.)
I must question the addition of the “starkers” tag, given that on inspection neither of them are actually naked: she’s wearing a leotard, and he’s wearing full-on space overalls. I also question their judgement in potentially deciding to get busy in front of a large window, where anyone flying by could see them.
Of course, all that pales beside the oddity of the artist deciding to paint this woman in a pose from a figure skating or gymnastics routine presumably for fanservice points. I guess she must be a gymnast, then.
Re: pose, is it possible that mere moments previously, she farted the Pleasure Tube out of her bottom and it is presently sailing over the Star Barrier off the cover?
Can’t anyone else see a salon-style hairdryer on the man’s head? Possibly something playing a meditation tape? The woman just danced over here to see if his hair was dry yet.
I like big spaceships and I can not lie
You other cosmonauts can’t deny
That when a spaceship flies in with an itty bitty nose
And a big engine in your space
You get sprung, want to pull up tough
‘Cause you notice that ship was stuffed
With booster rockets blaring
I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring…
December 13th, 2016 at 2:18 pm
The blurb writer knows my ex. 🙁
December 13th, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Starting to think we need a phallic building tag..or would that be ‘phallic erection’?
December 13th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Another “scramble-ready” blurb: “Range Beyond the Star: Ultimate Sex and Infinite Horror.”
December 13th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
She’s not having any sex, finite, infinite or ultimate, until (a) he wakes from his drug-and-booze-induced torpor, and (b) she finds the zipper on that body suit!
December 13th, 2016 at 2:35 pm
@BC: you DON’T know my ex!!! 🙁
December 13th, 2016 at 2:39 pm
@DSWBT—this cover seems to have a lot of personal resonance. Is it safe then to assume that you are the gentleman portrayed, or a reasonable facsimile thereof?
(Someday we should share ex-stories over a cyber ale.)
December 13th, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Replacement blurb: “A startlingly accurate portrayal of life in the early twenty-first century (if you ignore everything but the hipster beard)”.
December 13th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
“Imagine if Pan’s People could materialise in your living room.”
December 13th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
@BC: I didn’t have a beard my first year at university, but certainly it COULD be.
December 13th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Trying to decipher what’s on the end table…I see, left to right:
–birth control pills
–miniature electric piano
–Chinese medicine balls on a shredded Phish t-shirt
–drip-brew maker
–Four Loko
–crucifix
December 13th, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Pleasure Tube, Boob Tube, same thing.
December 13th, 2016 at 4:49 pm
Future-Rumspringa
December 13th, 2016 at 4:55 pm
I must question the addition of the “starkers” tag, given that on inspection neither of them are actually naked: she’s wearing a leotard, and he’s wearing full-on space overalls. I also question their judgement in potentially deciding to get busy in front of a large window, where anyone flying by could see them.
Of course, all that pales beside the oddity of the artist deciding to paint this woman in a pose from a figure skating or gymnastics routine presumably for fanservice points. I guess she must be a gymnast, then.
December 13th, 2016 at 5:46 pm
@Anna we all know there is nothing sexier than and arabesque, especially when you’re lying unconscious in a mid century lounge chair.
December 13th, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Re: pose, is it possible that mere moments previously, she farted the Pleasure Tube out of her bottom and it is presently sailing over the Star Barrier off the cover?
December 13th, 2016 at 6:44 pm
It’s the unseen holographic rec-room on Dark Star. Pinback deleted everything apart from modern dance recordings.
December 13th, 2016 at 7:18 pm
‘Don’t watch that, watch this’- Madness ‘One Step Beyond’.
December 14th, 2016 at 12:40 am
With a title like that, the blurb should read: “Nudge, nudge, wink, wink” instead.
December 14th, 2016 at 12:50 am
It’s not a TV, it’s an airplane window, in front of which Gymnast Barbie and Astronaut Ken have been posed by a naughty child.
Or what Ray P said.
December 14th, 2016 at 4:37 am
I think I saw that lounge chair for sale in a Skyways Magazine.
December 14th, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Can’t anyone else see a salon-style hairdryer on the man’s head? Possibly something playing a meditation tape? The woman just danced over here to see if his hair was dry yet.
December 14th, 2016 at 10:43 pm
Nicki Minaj in an early appearance.
December 14th, 2016 at 11:34 pm
@AR: doubtful, as there’s no Sir Mix-a-Lot tag. Maybe it’s Justin Timberlake, as she seems to have brought sexy back with her…
December 15th, 2016 at 8:29 am
I like big spaceships and I can not lie
You other cosmonauts can’t deny
That when a spaceship flies in with an itty bitty nose
And a big engine in your space
You get sprung, want to pull up tough
‘Cause you notice that ship was stuffed
With booster rockets blaring
I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring…
December 19th, 2016 at 6:07 am
@B. Chiclitz(#3): I much prefer “Star the Beyond Range: Infinite Ultimate and Horror Sex”.
Hm. Maybe *I* know your ex….