Apr 18
Good Show Sir Legal Direction: Tell Huxley to call off his lawyers. I’m changing the title to “Brand New World”.
Published 1964
Good Show Sir Legal Direction: Tell Huxley to call off his lawyers. I’m changing the title to “Brand New World”.
Published 1964
April 18th, 2018 at 11:15 am
I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide!
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over sideways and under
On a magic frisbee ride
A brand new world!
…well, you get the idea with that.
April 18th, 2018 at 12:46 pm
Step aside folks. I got this one.
If they added a new planet to the solar system, they had to shove it past Uranus!
April 18th, 2018 at 12:48 pm
@Bibliomancer – They must have put it where the Sun don’t shine!
April 18th, 2018 at 12:53 pm
Some kind of alien Quidditch. He’s got the quaffle.
April 18th, 2018 at 2:14 pm
“An inhabited planet joins the solar system.”
Yeah, Einstein, it’s called “Earth.”
April 18th, 2018 at 2:25 pm
1) If the title has an explanatory blurb is the blurb considered a part of the title.
2) Is that a brow on his lower lip?
April 18th, 2018 at 2:44 pm
This is NOT how you play table tennis.
April 18th, 2018 at 3:35 pm
Mr Tomorrow: the Youth Club Years http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=7040
April 18th, 2018 at 4:03 pm
This finally makes sense. An epic game of dodge ball.
April 18th, 2018 at 4:26 pm
Cummings was pre-Golden-Age pulp. According to Wikipedia he died in 1957 and Brand New World was first published in Argosy in 1928. It doesn’t seem to be on Project Gutenberg, but is apparently available here: https://fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20151107, if you can be bothered.
April 18th, 2018 at 4:37 pm
@LL I never would have matched the portrait with the cover art.
April 18th, 2018 at 5:40 pm
“Klytus I’m bored. What plaything can you offer me today?”
April 18th, 2018 at 5:53 pm
Not only have we had Cummings on GSS before, but he even used the ‘interloper in the solar system” device before: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10722,
April 18th, 2018 at 6:39 pm
There is another potential solution to this “joins the Solar System” oddness: they terraformed Mars.
Of course, it’s probably a planet in a different solar system, and the blurb writer didn’t understand the difference between “solar system” and “interstellar civilization”.
On a different note: what’s with that guy’s Orb of Power, and where can I get one?
April 18th, 2018 at 7:26 pm
@ Lurker – Good catch.
April 18th, 2018 at 10:37 pm
Hey Tag Wizard, “let’s shoot hoops!” is brilliant! Can’t wait for the second book that earns the tag.
April 18th, 2018 at 10:40 pm
@Anna T—That puts the blurb writer on a par with the artist, who seems to have skipped the “What is a Palette?” class at the Unknown Artists Institute.
April 19th, 2018 at 3:35 am
@B.C. – Thank you! I’m sure the second book is already waiting for you to find it in the archives.
April 20th, 2018 at 5:35 am
@Tag Wizard (#18), B. Chiclitz (#16):
How’s this for a candidate for the “let’s shoot hoops” tag?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10738
April 20th, 2018 at 10:38 am
@Anna T. Nope. It’s a formerly extra-solar planet entering the Solar System. (See the link provided by Longtime_lurker).
April 20th, 2018 at 1:26 pm
@Hammy—Good find, sir! Gets my vote.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:27 pm
@BC:
I particularly liked that the Refugee/Tyrant-of-the-Future is gliding in for a finger-roll layup, all while toting the largest Nerf gun in outer space!
April 21st, 2018 at 5:58 am
@Hammy: Perfect. Even the mouseover text agrees.
April 21st, 2018 at 8:52 am
Another must-have tag: Strangely Familiar Title/Copycat Title.
Here’s another candidate.
April 22nd, 2018 at 9:30 pm
Worst. Gallstone. Removal. Ever.
April 25th, 2018 at 4:26 pm
I don’t know why, but this cover reminded me of this old classic: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2169
March 11th, 2019 at 5:37 pm
@Anti-Sceptic They found the red moon! Smaller than advertised.