Jun 21
Good Show Sir Comments: Greetings from Corpse Mountain!
Published 1979
(Average: 8.35 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Greetings from Corpse Mountain!
Published 1979
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June 21st, 2017 at 11:41 am
I’ve killed the whole population . . . my quest for knowledge is now complete!
June 21st, 2017 at 11:46 am
I’m trying to find anything right with the cover, and frankly, I’m stumped.
June 21st, 2017 at 11:50 am
@Bibliomancer. Judging from the only synopsis I could find, I believe you may have hit upon the actual plot:
SCIENCE FICTION-ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE-ULTIMATE CHAOS-HEMMED IN AND FRUSTRATED BY THE PERILS AND PRESSURES OF 22ND CENTURY AMERICA,SCHOLAR ARTHUR CAINE WELCOMED THE MISSION TO THE DISTANT PLANET ALBAR.FOR ALBAR WAS AN INCREDIBLE STOREHOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EARTH’S HISTORY-A LIVING TREASURY OF INFORMATION THAT ONLY HE COULD INTERPRET.BUT THE NATIVES OF ALBAR-ROYALTY,PRIESTS AND COMMONERS ALIKE-HAD THEIR OWN INTRIGUES INVOLVING THE BIZARRE CREATURE CAINE SOUGHT-MOST OF THEM SEEMING TO CALL FOR KILLING OR ENSLAVING CAINE AND HIS COMPANIONS.TO REACH THE GOAL THAT OBSESSED HIM,CAINE WOULD HAVE TO ALTER THE FUTURE OF THE WHOLE PLANET-IF HE COULD STAY ALIVE LONG ENOUGH.
June 21st, 2017 at 11:55 am
twe…. TWE!!!
June 21st, 2017 at 12:23 pm
How can we be sure they aren’t corpses but just passed out drunk from celebrating Drink Like A Pirate Day?
June 21st, 2017 at 12:43 pm
His quest was for boxer briefs alone…but the wedgies that came with it changed a world’s undergarment industry.
June 21st, 2017 at 1:14 pm
THE MAKESHIFT TITLE LOGO
June 21st, 2017 at 1:16 pm
Bow down before the Transformer Action Figure of the Gods! Submit to it!
June 21st, 2017 at 1:27 pm
The longer I stare at this cover, the more butts I see.
Four butts? No, I think there are five! Five butts!
June 21st, 2017 at 2:02 pm
Make…? Oh, shiFt, right, gotcha.
June 21st, 2017 at 2:03 pm
@TN *in Captain Picard voice* “THERE- ARE- FOUR-BUTTS!”
June 21st, 2017 at 2:18 pm
@Tom: when you gaze long into the butt, the butt also gazes into you!
June 21st, 2017 at 3:20 pm
@RachelJ—interesting to note that “royalty, priests and commoners alike had their own intruiges . . . .”
June 21st, 2017 at 3:21 pm
I thought it said The Makeshift Goo.
June 21st, 2017 at 3:25 pm
“His quest was for knowledge alone—but the power that came with it changed a world’s diaper.”
June 21st, 2017 at 3:54 pm
Zardoz! A new musical based on the hit 1975 movie. From the team who gave you Unicorns!
June 21st, 2017 at 4:24 pm
Griffin, Russell M, (1943-1986) US academic and author who began publishing sf with his first novel, The Makeshift God (November-December 1958 Astounding as “A Bicycle Built for Brew”; 1979), an ambitiously overwritten and overlong but notably intelligent romance of origins, set initially in a drab Arab-dominated marginally pre-Cyberpunk USA, and then on a planet which houses mysteriously significant data about the deep human past…Griffin’s premature death halted a career which could have soared.
June 21st, 2017 at 5:06 pm
I will hold my space helmet awkwardly to hide the fact that I find homoerotic violence exciting.
June 21st, 2017 at 6:27 pm
His quest was for fish alone – but the mercury contamination that came with it changed a world’s destiny!
THE MAKESHIFT COD
June 21st, 2017 at 8:06 pm
There’s some serious butt-stuff going on here.
June 22nd, 2017 at 12:38 am
The Makeshitup God
June 22nd, 2017 at 1:01 am
At last it has come to this: Arsemageddon.
June 22nd, 2017 at 1:37 am
@Raoul—GSS!
June 22nd, 2017 at 4:31 am
@BC – So whaddya think? Weird trapezius?
June 22nd, 2017 at 5:18 am
I guess wearing little to no clothing is part of the culture on this planet? I mean, he’s probably only wearing the G-string and belt to hold his sword. As for the space helmet, I bet it’s covering up something bad – do you see the angle of his neck? That’s some anatomical issues right there.
Also, one of the corpses has the disturbing head of a chimpanzee. I know not why.
June 22nd, 2017 at 6:49 am
@Tag Wizard—take your pick, magus. It’s weird all over. Trapezius does seem to be glued on, and badly. Also I think he has a painful boil on his left buttock, and there may well be a face, carved intaglio, in his left thigh (face-in-thigh?).
June 22nd, 2017 at 3:57 pm
Dead Stuff: it’s the SF Encyclopedia which says of Griffin that he “…began publishing sf with his first novel, The Makeshift God (November-December 1958 Astounding as “A Bicycle Built for Brew”; 1979)”; but according to ISFDB, “A Bicycle Built for Brew” was written by Poul Anderson and became the novel “The Makeshift Rocket”.
It’s the battle of the two major SF databases!!!
Though I suspect it’s bloody nose for John Clute.
June 22nd, 2017 at 10:53 pm
Font problems. Anatomy problems. A thong. Australopithecus Corpse Mountain. Butts everywhere. A spaceship that might be a stage prop.
I think this could use every damn tag available, and some new ones. Isn’t there a “so much yellow” tag that ought to see more use?
The SFE has munged things together — he probably wasn’t publishing stuff at age 15, especially not under Poul Anderson’s name. Bit of a search/cut and paste problem there. Makeshift, even.
Overwritten and over-arted as well.
June 23rd, 2017 at 6:22 am
@StevenLP & GSS. Every other reference I can find to “A Bicycle Built for Brew”, and there are many, attributes it to Poul Anderson and as having been published in novel form as “The Makeshift Rocket”. So I’d say the SF Encyclopaedia screwed up here.
June 23rd, 2017 at 2:42 pm
RachelJ: I contacted the SFE about this yesterday and they’ve held up their hands and confessed their grevious sin: it will be corrected as part of the next site update.
June 23rd, 2017 at 10:34 pm
Good Show, StevenLP!
The “makeshift” in both must have tripped them up.
The mistake seems to have occurred in the migration to the web; I’ve checked my paper copy (there’s my weightlifting for the day) and the parenthetical bicycle reference isn’t in there.
Also, my library needs dusting rather badly. Achoo.
June 24th, 2017 at 6:53 am
the makeshift God arrives in his makeshift spaceship…
August 5th, 2017 at 2:43 am
*enthusiastically* “POLO!”
March 8th, 2020 at 3:02 pm
The “YMCA” sing-a-long-party was rudely interrupted by the arrival of the Makeshift God.