Someone ought to warn the crew of that ship to look out for the giant, vaguely smug-looking British man with a moustache who’s been sighted in the area. (I know it doesn’t say he’s a Brit, but his moustache and facial expression give me that general impression.)
@Anna T: You have been reported to the Ethnic Caricature Standards Authority for misrepresenting Canadian hams who sound about as Scottish as Nelson Mandela.
The smugness, hair and moustache clearly belong to someone from California c.1956*, usually a tycoon, in either a Douglas Sirk weepie or as the real murderer in ‘Perry Mason’.
(*or San Francisco in 1976 for different reasons).
All I can say about this is: BAEN! all possible noises
With obligatory orange block font.
I had a copy of this once upon a time; IIRC I either got it used, read it, and then it left the house, or else I borrowed it and it went back. Point is, I read it but didn’t keep it. Because of this cover.
Oh wait, on second thought, I read the first one, not this. Cover is less wink wink, nudge nudge, no Scotty smirk. But almost equally bad otherwise, with a shuriken of sale price and a red border.
Third cover is much the same, minus some background business and plus a giant bug person posing with Scotty.
So this one’s the worst, but among a lot of bad.
@Tat: That mustache is too outre to have been on Perry Mason, even on the murderer.
@MakkaPakka: Good eye! Now I’m also wondering. As well as wondering why “The” is even in there — title doesn’t need it, esp. so stupidly.
May 10th, 2018 at 10:10 am
“Bump your head on this!”
May 10th, 2018 at 10:30 am
“Baen me up, Scotty!”
May 10th, 2018 at 11:58 am
It’ll never fit.
May 10th, 2018 at 12:29 pm
So, does Mr. Scott dock with shields up or down?
May 10th, 2018 at 1:24 pm
This is why you should never let Scotty near the holodeck.
May 10th, 2018 at 2:01 pm
Points for realism, at least. That is exactly the expression I’ve seen on people after they’ve been smashed in the face with a couple of asteroids.
May 10th, 2018 at 3:39 pm
Nope, no phallic symb. . . (wait I think I’ve said that before).
May 10th, 2018 at 5:49 pm
How do you pronounce “Prtheivateer”?
May 10th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Someone ought to warn the crew of that ship to look out for the giant, vaguely smug-looking British man with a moustache who’s been sighted in the area. (I know it doesn’t say he’s a Brit, but his moustache and facial expression give me that general impression.)
May 10th, 2018 at 7:19 pm
@Anna T: You have been reported to the Ethnic Caricature Standards Authority for misrepresenting Canadian hams who sound about as Scottish as Nelson Mandela.
The smugness, hair and moustache clearly belong to someone from California c.1956*, usually a tycoon, in either a Douglas Sirk weepie or as the real murderer in ‘Perry Mason’.
(*or San Francisco in 1976 for different reasons).
May 10th, 2018 at 7:39 pm
That’s no asteroid, that’s a space haggis!
May 11th, 2018 at 2:49 am
In the immortal words of George Carlin, “ya don’t have to be Fellini to figure this one out!”
May 11th, 2018 at 5:42 am
All I can say about this is: BAEN! all possible noises
With obligatory orange block font.
I had a copy of this once upon a time; IIRC I either got it used, read it, and then it left the house, or else I borrowed it and it went back. Point is, I read it but didn’t keep it. Because of this cover.
Oh wait, on second thought, I read the first one, not this. Cover is less wink wink, nudge nudge, no Scotty smirk. But almost equally bad otherwise, with a shuriken of sale price and a red border.
Third cover is much the same, minus some background business and plus a giant bug person posing with Scotty.
So this one’s the worst, but among a lot of bad.
@Tat: That mustache is too outre to have been on Perry Mason, even on the murderer.
@MakkaPakka: Good eye! Now I’m also wondering. As well as wondering why “The” is even in there — title doesn’t need it, esp. so stupidly.
May 11th, 2018 at 6:49 am
SPOILERS: Scotty’s giant ectoplasmic head does not, in fact, appear in this story.
May 11th, 2018 at 1:01 pm
Hang on… cheesy moustache, ‘Privateer’, unofficial TV tie-in… this is ‘Shoestring’ fanfic, isn’t it?
May 13th, 2018 at 1:33 pm
Och, this series agin! Ah weel mind th’ foremaist book. Shall I hunt doon some sample chaipters o’ this yin?
May 14th, 2018 at 10:20 am
Hey! Why doesn’t this cover include an EQUALLY sized photo of S.M.Stirling? Bloody favoritism!
May 14th, 2018 at 5:28 pm
@Tat Wood: Well, he could be Canadian . . . but so am I, and he doesn’t come off that way to me.
May 15th, 2018 at 12:30 am
@Anna T: Doohan was Canadian.
May 31st, 2018 at 10:43 pm
Is the “once you see it” in reference to the suggestive spaceship docking or the stealth cat head by Scotty’s left ear?
June 1st, 2018 at 12:25 am
@Yoss: Both? But I think it should be Orson the cat disguised as an asteroid, being much more difficult to spot than the obvious docking.
July 13th, 2018 at 3:40 pm
@Tag Wizard: GXN is right! This needs an Orson tag!
July 14th, 2018 at 2:06 am
Yoss spotted it first. That’s a cut-and-paste Stealth Orson if ever I saw one. Just put his furry face front and center disguised as an asteroid.