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Click for full imageIan Comments: A cat with no claws, and a rather strange window (French doors?) looking out to space. The descriptions seems to have to many plurals. Title font is awesome, nothing says the far future like Computer typeface.
Published 1995
Ending the week with more Cats!
(Average: 5.54 out of 10)
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April 8th, 2011 at 10:38 am
The damsel looks worried: “Damn, he’s spotted my knitting! I’ll never get that ball of wool back!”
April 8th, 2011 at 10:38 am
‘”Spaceships, they’re poison,” he said, placing a suspiciously friendly hand upon her shoulder …’
April 8th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Actually, on reflection, my reference may be too obscure, there.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:49 am
“Well… once we’re caught up in the wake of those engines we’re done for. Ah well, hug?”
Adam> It rings a bell in a dark corner of my mind… but yea, too obscure 😛
April 8th, 2011 at 10:51 am
“Tonight, five lucky contestants stand to win a spaceship, a damsel or a cat-man in… FORTUNE’S WHEEL!”
[cue music]
April 8th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Choose Your Blurb:
A) “They’d formed a linking of minds and souls, but would this bring their peoples together or spark an explosion that destroyed all hope of alliance?”
B) “They’d formed a linking of beads and stones at bargain-basement cost, but would this necklace bring their peoples a Renaissance Fair or spark a price war that destroyed all hope of merriment?”
C) “They’d formed a linking of hands and bodies, but would this bring their libidos together or spark a nipple burn that destroyed all hope of satisfaction?”
D) “They’d formed a linking of websites and domain names, but would this bring their visitor counts together or spark a Denial-of-Service attack that destroyed all hope of investors?”
E) “They’d formed a linking of spoons and forks, but would this bring their eating utensils together or spork an explosion that destroyed all hope of dinner?”
April 8th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Nice Man-Cat guides blind girl through ship.
[I dig the image on the binder shown to the right]
April 8th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Fourtune! Get back to the wheel! Were about to hit that cat-human couple!
April 8th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Everyone loves a good cat-man-in-space story, right?
April 8th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Perhaps Lisanne is the daughter of John and the planet below is GOR ?
April 8th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Hmmm…Catman…fur…static electricity…spark…BOOM. I’m guessing no alliance.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Are you SURE Good Show Sir hasn’t been taken over by the I Can Has CheezBurger network?
April 9th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
The grammar on the blurb is killing me.
“They’d formed a linking of minds and souls, but would this bring their peoples together or spark an explosion that destroyed all hope of alliance?â€
Okay so you have the past progressive “they had formed…” shifting to conditional tense “would this bring”–which is typicially used in the present or future tense– followed by present tense “spark,” and ending with the simple past tense “destroyed.” It is not exactly wrong, but stylistically it is funky. Easy to fix too:
“They’d formed a linking of minds and souls, but would this bring their peoples together or spark an explosion that will destroy all hope of alliance?â€
or
“They’d formed a linking of minds and souls, but will this bring their peoples together or spark an explosion that will destroy all hope of alliance?â€
or
“Ohai! I lenked our soles and mynds. Can we haz peeples together or will thsi sparc an exbloustion that will dizstroy all hoep of alien-ants?”
April 10th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Q: “…would this bring their peoples together or spark an explosion that destroyed all hope of alliance?â€
A: Yes.
April 11th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Cat-man’s people are different from Human-woman’s people, so “peoples” here isn’t quite as odd as it seems at first glance.
It’s still really awkward sounding though.
Also, is it implying that Cat-man and Human-woman did the horizontal mambo? Eww.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Matt, it only mentions minds and souls. None of that icky physical business. Holding hands (paws?) is as far as they go. Not that I’ve read the book, mind.
April 13th, 2011 at 5:19 am
I OWN THIS BOOK! I got it from the library’s junk box, where they throw the stuff that’s too old, too obtuse/obscure, or too stupid to charge even 10¢ for. It is at least 800 pages long.
Lisanne Norman wrote 800 pages on Cat People. I am scared to even attempt reading it.
April 29th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
It looks like they just came down on an escalator and the cat-guy was trying to impress the girl by showing a new painting of a Spaceship he had just completed. However, the girl seems a little reluctant to let go of the escalator handrail.
June 26th, 2011 at 2:05 am
“A linking of minds and souls” could imply “Knee trembler behind the tar factory”. It certainly sounds better. However, the only Catman/Apegirl knee trembler I recall was in a Red Dwarf book, and ended/began in OUCH.
November 3rd, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Sort of relevant: I used to date Lisannes son when I was 16. Nice lady.
March 5th, 2014 at 1:32 pm
For 15 years now, we have lived here. Before that time, I was a pet of my master Yoshi…..and then, one day, I came upon a shattered glass jar and four baby turtles.
March 5th, 2014 at 10:43 pm
The book behind it, to the right, sounds ominous. Will Elvenbane take on Elvenbatman?
And Cat-man is saying to Mary-Sue: Fear not. If you think the book we’re in sounds cheesy, consider the poor unfortunates who reside yonder.
(I’m imagining he talks that way partly because of his posture but mainly from that 80s ‘Beauty and ther Beast’ series where Roy Dotrice played his alleged father.)
March 6th, 2014 at 4:19 am
They’d? why not just use Theys or Thems? Would this’ve brung their peoples closer together?
October 10th, 2014 at 5:58 pm
Cat-Man: And, out the door we go into the cold, hostile vacuum of space!
Woman: …are you sure this is a good idea?
Cat-Man: Of course, love, we’ll be dead in less than 30 seconds. And our lungs will be out our ears.
October 13th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
I believe the blurb-writer may also have been responsible for this:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/07/murder-at-the-galactic-writers-society/
Same publisher, same year, same awkward sentence structure.
January 11th, 2017 at 7:28 am
I found the first and third (this is the second) of this trilogy and submitted them.
Less with the groping, but still ridiculous. And with cat-men.
Yes. It’s a trilogy. THREE 800-page volumes of alliance-forging, grammar-torturing, and cheezburgers for all I know. O noes.