Followed by the sequels “The Itching,” “The Scratching” and “Call Now And You Get This Free, Patented Applicator at No Extra Charge as Our Free Gift to You.”
DSWBT: Is it the Antikythera mechanism or just a croc clock?
A clockwork croco-octopus ought to be the best episode of ‘Wild Wild West’ ever but somehow I’m thinking of ‘Camberwick Green’ instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIWWupaaZE
I must have missed the episodes about Dr Cummerbund, the Mad Scientist and Miss Gotobed, the Village Bike.
“We all burn in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine….”
No?
Captain Nemo asks a 1910 movie star to “come see my etchings” in his private art gallery aboard the Nautilus….
No?
Well, whenever I think I am close to fitting all of the elements of this cover into a coherent whole, the floating steampunk octopus confounds me.
It says “Some mysteries are better left unsolved, Sherlock.”
I got nothing.
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November 23rd, 2017 at 11:40 am
It must be difficult to astrogate when a caiman is humping your Antikythera mechanism.
November 23rd, 2017 at 11:44 am
She’s a witch! Burn her, anyway, burn her!
November 23rd, 2017 at 12:08 pm
The age of science was over but the age of ridiculous gender stereotypes was still going strong.
November 23rd, 2017 at 1:54 pm
How are these damn space toilets supposed to work?
November 23rd, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Not quite tentacle sex (yet), but it is zero G and for some strange reason there happens to be octopus near by.
November 23rd, 2017 at 3:23 pm
I don’t want to be that person making a goatse joke, but that astrolabe is kind of begging for one.
November 23rd, 2017 at 4:11 pm
@Lillie: we’ll hand it to you, then. 😛
November 23rd, 2017 at 4:15 pm
Followed by the sequels “The Itching,” “The Scratching” and “Call Now And You Get This Free, Patented Applicator at No Extra Charge as Our Free Gift to You.”
DSWBT: Is it the Antikythera mechanism or just a croc clock?
November 23rd, 2017 at 4:34 pm
@Tor: It’s a crock either way. 😉
November 23rd, 2017 at 4:58 pm
“Alors, what did zee recipé call for? Ah, mais oui! Just a peench of ground tentacle scale and voila! Zee love potion she is complete, n’est ce pas?”
November 23rd, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Back cover. Mr. Gunn apparently forgot the whole witch/warlock thing. Or maybe not.
https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-135796431451137/the-burning-by-james-e-gunn-1st-printing-feb-1972-dell-sf-paperback-book-5.gif
November 23rd, 2017 at 6:21 pm
Do we have a croctopus tag? Or maybe an octocroc? Cephalogator?
I should stop before I give the SyFy channel ideas for new movies.
November 23rd, 2017 at 7:14 pm
A clockwork croco-octopus ought to be the best episode of ‘Wild Wild West’ ever but somehow I’m thinking of ‘Camberwick Green’ instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIWWupaaZE
I must have missed the episodes about Dr Cummerbund, the Mad Scientist and Miss Gotobed, the Village Bike.
November 23rd, 2017 at 7:23 pm
On examination, he looks a little like noted medieval historian Terry Jones.
November 23rd, 2017 at 7:45 pm
That croc looks a whole lot like Reptilicus, the Danish Godzilla.
November 23rd, 2017 at 7:55 pm
@fred: Nope, too realistic and not nearly as much fun.
November 23rd, 2017 at 9:44 pm
I KNEW we shouldn’t have brought back that baby alligator from Florida!
November 23rd, 2017 at 10:15 pm
@dswbt #14 I was thinking Gabriel Byrne.
November 23rd, 2017 at 10:17 pm
Why does every dystopian sci-fi book cover blurb sound like a commentary on present day society?
November 23rd, 2017 at 10:34 pm
@DeadStuff (14): I thought a young-ish Denis Lawson,post ‘Jedi’ but maybe around the time of ‘Dead Head’.
November 23rd, 2017 at 11:30 pm
On the plus side, you do get to read about the early adventures of Holly Hunter and Jason Alexander.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:48 pm
B’mancer, did you mean that comment for Space Ship X.S.22?
November 24th, 2017 at 5:00 pm
What were they doing in the manhole system?
November 24th, 2017 at 10:04 pm
@Tor – Poof. It’s gone!
November 25th, 2017 at 4:39 am
@Tag Wizard: My comment now makes no sense. But I’m sure everyone is used to that by now.
December 7th, 2017 at 2:30 am
The book may be good, but the cover is riveting!
November 4th, 2019 at 7:39 am
The age of science was over.
The time of human Whack-A-Mole had begun.
January 19th, 2022 at 11:01 am
“We all burn in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine….”
No?
Captain Nemo asks a 1910 movie star to “come see my etchings” in his private art gallery aboard the Nautilus….
No?
Well, whenever I think I am close to fitting all of the elements of this cover into a coherent whole, the floating steampunk octopus confounds me.
It says “Some mysteries are better left unsolved, Sherlock.”
I got nothing.