Mar 04
Good Show Sir Comments: Black cat photobomb!
Russian translation of Heinlein’s “The Door Into Summer”.
Thanks to Alex for sending this in.
Published 1990
Good Show Sir Comments: Black cat photobomb!
Russian translation of Heinlein’s “The Door Into Summer”.
Thanks to Alex for sending this in.
Published 1990
March 4th, 2020 at 10:51 am
The nightmare comes on smelly cat breath.
March 4th, 2020 at 10:54 am
Just be glad cats can’t open cans.
March 4th, 2020 at 12:19 pm
…Yet.
March 4th, 2020 at 1:03 pm
What’s the matter? Cat got your ting?
March 4th, 2020 at 1:59 pm
дверь в плоское пространство, more like.
March 4th, 2020 at 4:34 pm
Evoking the discarded draft of the story in which the hero is accompanied into the future by the murderous ghost of his abandoned cat.
March 4th, 2020 at 4:38 pm
Yuri Gagarin’s first mission almost ended in disaster until he chucked that darned cat into space. The Soviet government covered up the event.
March 4th, 2020 at 6:11 pm
Cool interior illustrations from this edition here:
https://fantlab.ru/edition29217
Also note: “The book was published at the expense of the author of the translation and on his initiative.” So I guess the Heinlein estate shouldn’t be expecting a Russian royalty check.
March 4th, 2020 at 8:05 pm
In Soviet Schrödinger’s paradox, cat checks on you.
March 4th, 2020 at 8:35 pm
I’m struck by the prominence of nostrils—both human and feline—on this cover. Perhaps a specialty of Russian UAI?
March 4th, 2020 at 8:38 pm
Solaris would be scarier if this cat showed up in it. “And you, you little sh!thead, you are staying here.”
March 4th, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Is it wrong that all I can think of is Stouffer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0v6irhiHAE
March 5th, 2020 at 12:16 am
I see Russian UAI is just as bad as the British, American, and French. Something we all have in common. Despite race, color, creed, or nationality, we all get bad sci-fi book covers. And those literate in English can come here to mock them.
This is UGLY. Who thought that angle on the man was a good idea? Had the artist ever seen an actual cat?
The mega-Ting! doesn’t make up for it, artist.
@BC: This guy got highest marks in “Nostril Illustration” at USSR UAI, obviously.
@Tat: Your links have consistently given me a very odd history/suggestion list on YouTube.
@Everyone else: Witty as usual. I laugh more here than at most supposedly funny things. GSS provides more genuine chortles than a year’s worth of sitcoms.
March 5th, 2020 at 6:58 am
In space Ceiling Cat is very confused.
March 5th, 2020 at 6:16 pm
Nah, that’s obviously Basement Cat. He is confused by the lack of gravity ruining his sense of up and down, though.
March 5th, 2020 at 8:57 pm
Astronauts love Tang.
Cosmonauts love Ting!
March 14th, 2020 at 4:10 am
Hibernation Pod Checklist #7: have you put the cat out? (In hibernation mode, you will not wake up if cat begins eating you).
March 14th, 2020 at 10:01 pm
@Bruce: You have just brought a whole new horror to the ending of Alien.