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Published 1968
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(Average: 7.78 out of 10)
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GK Comments: Someone is out of place…
Published 1968
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November 4th, 2010 at 9:06 am
“I say Winston, I don’t know what’s more disturbing. The fact we don’t have legs or that I find that alien creature over there arousing.”
November 4th, 2010 at 9:23 am
That terrible secret isn’t being very secretive, is it.
November 4th, 2010 at 9:28 am
The secret is clearly, they all have plants growing from their jacket arms.
November 4th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Judging by their expressions, the terrible secret is that… *gasp* this is THE PLANET OF HAPPY PEOPLE!!
November 4th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Pass me my Moleskine, butler! I must wallop this cretinous buffoon immediately!
November 4th, 2010 at 10:19 am
“…this is THE PLANET OF HAPPY PEOPLE!!”
It is STAR WELL, after all. Not STAR ILL.
November 4th, 2010 at 10:22 am
The secret to be found is where is the interstellar horse lost by the jockey seen in the second plan. After all the betting odds must be great on this horse according to those booklets.
November 4th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Surely the terrible secret must be how life survives on a world adrift in interstellar space without a parent star — Orange alien fish oil!
“Jeaves, that one there will keep us warm for at least a week.”
November 4th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Man, this is a great cover! It’s a Kelly Freas, isn’t it?
November 4th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Seriously. I mean, what does that guy think he is, a time-traveling 1980s record company executive? Lose the rattail!
November 4th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Hmmm . . . looks like the terrible secret has a lot to do with keeping appointments . . . or not. Ha, I’ve got it! THE NATIVES OF STAR WELL ARE NOT PUNCTUAL
November 4th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
From Wiki:
Panshin is also noted for the cult favorite Anthony Villiers series which consists of three books: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World. The fourth volume of the series, The Universal Pantograph, never appeared, reputedly because of conflicts between the writer and his publisher. Of the Villiers series, noted SF writer Samuel R. Delany writes “It … examines the proposition that the world is composed of small communities of mutual interest … [Star Well] is a gallery of gamblers, duels and double-crosses, a minuet of manners and manners mangled; the machinery of the universe is speculated upon; inspector generals arrive to inspect it. And Anthony Villiers, gentleman par excellence, dashes through it all, buckling a swash or two, bungling a couple of others.”[citation needed]
November 4th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
And finally: the books are available in ebook form
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/New-Celebrations/Alexei-Panshin/e/2940000061350/?itm=1&USRI=villiers+panshin
November 4th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I have read this one and loved it. It really features an intelligent bipedial toad with incredibly big blue eyes, although I’m sure Torve would never wear such a horrible green coverall 😉 … for one he has a tail…:)
November 4th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Fred: that ebook version you link to has depressingly unobjectionable cover art. Surely we can do better!
November 4th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Panshin? This would have been extra funny as a Heinlein Monday.
November 5th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Overall? That’s not an overall. That’s a dressing gown. (But yes, I agree with Fred Zimmerman. This is a lovely cover.)
November 5th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Adam — OMG, I thought the ebook cover art for StAR WELL was awful! I’ll post it in another thread.
Give me a Freas any day. The original paintings start at $20,000.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Forgot to include the link for Freas paintings:
http://www.northernstarart.com/shop.php?category=29
Not kidding about the $20,000.
October 1st, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Terrific cover, very accurate, excellent novel – highly recommended!
Once again, read the book first!
June 30th, 2015 at 10:45 pm
The follow-up, Star Poorly, did not do as well.
June 30th, 2015 at 11:40 pm
What was the terrible secret ingredient of this five-star restaurant?
STIR WELL
March 3rd, 2016 at 1:36 am
Chris Christie’s role in the Trump administration
March 3rd, 2016 at 9:35 am
@SI: “Look, I’m just here to check the pipes.”
March 3rd, 2016 at 10:29 am
Axial Henpenis
Villain Nandas venture theory
WREST ALL
How to liberate assets? Flirt with and screw R.R. the teller!
March 3rd, 2016 at 2:45 pm
If that’s how you star well, what does starring badly look like?
March 3rd, 2016 at 2:52 pm
@Tat: That’s the terrible secret of this interstellar world!
March 4th, 2016 at 8:38 am
“What is your terrible secret? Why are you so unnaturally happy?”
“Earthling, there is no secret. We’ll tell you. The source of our happiness is…”
“Say it!”
“… flossing.”
“Huh??”
“Floss every day.”
“No! NOOOO!!”
“Join us… join us…”
March 4th, 2016 at 11:38 am
I seem to have missed an apostrophe there..
November 24th, 2017 at 6:21 am
Well, ’bout that time the Duke boys was walkin’ down the star well lookin’ fer the far escape …