Lionel Barrymore be rockin’ the Spock Eyebrow.
Two ravens usually means Odin. I don’t think this is usually. But it is PJF after all.
Need a ‘generic square jawed hero’ tag.
@fred—I very much like the idea of a “generic square jawed hero” tag. We could just shorten it to “jaw man.” Let’s be on the lookout so we can lobby T. Wiz mercilessly.
@Ray P— 😉 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Tor
While I nodded off, so mellow, suddenly there came a bellow,
As of some rude girl or fellow, banging at my chamber door.
“’Tis some GSS,” I muttered, “banging at my chamber door—
Hoping Tor will help them score
One more smiley-faced emoticon to add to website lore.”
That would be too restrained and just exactly orange enough for BAEN! moment of silence nowadays. And Bette isn’t pneumatic enough. But the heirs never get it quite right.
“Bette Midler and the Hologram of Lionel Barrymore* IN… ‘Greatheart Silver’!”
@fred: I don’t visualize Odin as a guy dressed like a barnstormer, but wearing cowboy boots, but then I’m not PJF. I’m down with the “generic square jawed hero” tag, though.
This is all WTF, from the excessive orange, the bizarre title itself, PJF, the typography…
oooh, I just noticed there’s a wraparound…
Ah, THERE’S the pneumatic babe, the firearm, and the sneering Grandpa Munster (I met him once. Very nice man IRL). Plus more Capitals for no Reason, as is the way of Blurbs.
Mr. xn asks “is she facing us, or him, or some other direction?” and upon seeing the whole deal “evil rich guy… what’s with the brothel?” and I said “Space Western?”
*Explains why he’s the same color as the background.
The Wiki summary shows that this, as we might have expected, is an accurate representation of the cover. With, as is usual from PJF, ripoffs homages to many past works.
Although as Greatheart (for it is he on the cover) is a descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, I’m not so sure about the blond hair. And that’s supposed to be a zeppelin, not a spaceship. An Acme Zeppelin.
At first glance I thought Greatheart Silver was Dick van Dyke playing Mister Cold Miser in the live action version of The Year without a Santa Claus staged in the far future. I think I need to get some sleep.
She’s impressed when he tells her that the Watney’s Barrel beer keg behind them has done the Kessel Run in even fewer parsecs than the other guy’s ugly derrick. And braces and leg-warmers shall return to fashion in da future.
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October 31st, 2018 at 10:21 am
“I’ve had worst”
— PJF
“Needs more orange – and bizarre typography”
— JIM BÆN
“Maybe not”
— PJF
October 31st, 2018 at 11:19 am
I’m glad someone’s having a good time, but it won’t be his dry cleaner.
October 31st, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Howard Chaykin for the…win? Or something.
October 31st, 2018 at 1:01 pm
Dudley Do-Right is sporting some fancy pants.
October 31st, 2018 at 1:15 pm
I don’t know what Race Handsome and Space Flapper Bette Midler are up to on the front, but Grandpa Munster back there doesn’t like it one bit.
October 31st, 2018 at 1:17 pm
@B’Mancer—That’s not Dudley Do-Right, that’s the Lone Ranger (the ravens double as his mask), and she therefore must be Tonto. Hi-Ho Silver!!
October 31st, 2018 at 1:30 pm
Lionel Barrymore be rockin’ the Spock Eyebrow.
Two ravens usually means Odin. I don’t think this is usually. But it is PJF after all.
Need a ‘generic square jawed hero’ tag.
October 31st, 2018 at 2:10 pm
@fred—I very much like the idea of a “generic square jawed hero” tag. We could just shorten it to “jaw man.” Let’s be on the lookout so we can lobby T. Wiz mercilessly.
October 31st, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Tor
October 31st, 2018 at 4:39 pm
@Ray P— 😉
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Tor
While I nodded off, so mellow, suddenly there came a bellow,
As of some rude girl or fellow, banging at my chamber door.
“’Tis some GSS,” I muttered, “banging at my chamber door—
Hoping Tor will help them score
One more smiley-faced emoticon to add to website lore.”
October 31st, 2018 at 8:11 pm
@Ray P, @B. Chiclitz
Quoth the raven: “WTF-galore!”
October 31st, 2018 at 8:13 pm
@Ray P @B.Chiclitrz @Bibliomancer:
Quoth the raven: “Where’d you meet this whore?”
October 31st, 2018 at 11:37 pm
That would be too restrained and just exactly orange enough for BAEN! moment of silence nowadays. And Bette isn’t pneumatic enough. But the heirs never get it quite right.
“Bette Midler and the Hologram of Lionel Barrymore* IN… ‘Greatheart Silver’!”
@fred: I don’t visualize Odin as a guy dressed like a barnstormer, but wearing cowboy boots, but then I’m not PJF. I’m down with the “generic square jawed hero” tag, though.
This is all WTF, from the excessive orange, the bizarre title itself, PJF, the typography…
oooh, I just noticed there’s a wraparound…
Ah, THERE’S the pneumatic babe, the firearm, and the sneering Grandpa Munster (I met him once. Very nice man IRL). Plus more Capitals for no Reason, as is the way of Blurbs.
Mr. xn asks “is she facing us, or him, or some other direction?” and upon seeing the whole deal “evil rich guy… what’s with the brothel?” and I said “Space Western?”
*Explains why he’s the same color as the background.
November 1st, 2018 at 12:29 am
The Wiki summary shows that this, as we might have expected, is an accurate representation of the cover. With, as is usual from PJF,
ripoffshomages to many past works.Although as Greatheart (for it is he on the cover) is a descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, I’m not so sure about the blond hair. And that’s supposed to be a zeppelin, not a spaceship. An Acme Zeppelin.
November 1st, 2018 at 2:00 am
At first glance I thought Greatheart Silver was Dick van Dyke playing Mister Cold Miser in the live action version of The Year without a Santa Claus staged in the far future. I think I need to get some sleep.
November 6th, 2019 at 9:11 pm
“Dudley-Do-Right loved Little Nell… and Little Nell loved his spaceship.”
November 6th, 2019 at 10:59 pm
She’s impressed when he tells her that the Watney’s Barrel beer keg behind them has done the Kessel Run in even fewer parsecs than the other guy’s ugly derrick. And braces and leg-warmers shall return to fashion in da future.