May 22
1st Paradox Comments: When I saw this cover today, I knew that it was the reason Nyarlathotep had put a camera in my pocket. I especially like the starry gulf opening up in the floor of the passageway/gullet/whatever-it-
Published 1984
May 22nd, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Throat cancer isn’t funny.
May 22nd, 2012 at 12:43 pm
It was Dave’s first time in a foursome. He kept losing count of the number of legs. And heads. And tentacles.
May 22nd, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Part of the ship, part of the crew!
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I find myself both disturbed and aroused in equal measure. Is that wrong?
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:16 pm
When games of Twister go bad.
May 22nd, 2012 at 3:25 pm
According to Wikipedia, ore prospecting ship meets ancient alien spaceship and horror IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT VEIN THAN SEEN IN ANY RIDLEY SCOTT FILMS comes to the humans.
Me, I do not explore alien spacecraft in the nude. I doubt I’ve been missing much.
May 22nd, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Voyager in night. Verbs, articles, conjunctions superfluous.
May 22nd, 2012 at 6:46 pm
A Luke Skywalker letter to Penthouse?
May 22nd, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Hugo-Award Novelist is one of my favourite writers, along with the similarly hyphenated Adam-Troy Castro.
May 22nd, 2012 at 8:12 pm
And John-Boy Walton.
May 22nd, 2012 at 8:45 pm
I’m guessing that was the book’s Big Scary Moment that the cover-artist just spoiled.
May 22nd, 2012 at 11:45 pm
I’ve had that nightmare.
May 23rd, 2012 at 5:04 am
The arm reached out and the mouth screamed… put some clothes on!! And run.
May 23rd, 2012 at 1:10 pm
“In Russia, novel VOYAGER IN NIGHT is great bestseller due to Russian grammar!”
May 23rd, 2012 at 7:07 pm
It’s H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Company Picnic of the Great Old Ones.” The dreaded hoary three-legged race of the things that should not be call out with gibbering alien dialects and otherworldly flutes long forgotten by all but the madmen of Leng.
May 27th, 2012 at 12:59 am
My first thought was that the creature was topped by a hamburger bun. And then I thought, maybe it doesn’t really look like that, maybe they’re stranded on a desert island and that’s what naked boy is seeing, like in the old cartoons where the castaways start seeing each other as hot dog buns and chicken legs and stuff.
June 13th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Pan’s Labyrinth part two
February 1st, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Intergalactic case of beer goggles!
May 14th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
Patient:”I can tell by your face, you’ve seen something unusual in my colonoscopy. What is it? You must tell me!”
Proctologist:”Unusual? Rather a bit more than unusual actually..”
Patient:”You must tell me! I can take it! Polyps? Tumor? What is it doctor? Please, tell me!”
Proctologist:”Really? Well, it appears you have an alien monstrosity about to do battle with a naked man up your bum.”
Patient:”No, really, what is it?”
Proctologist:”Here, take a look at the monitor. See for yourself then.”
Patient:”Ohhhh*thud* (faints)
Proctologist:”My money is on the monstrosity frankly.”
February 26th, 2014 at 6:27 pm
“No, seriously, come over here. I just want to shake hands! Really!”
February 27th, 2014 at 7:53 pm
“We are Tea Party… join us… join us…”
April 17th, 2015 at 3:49 am
Believe it or not, this may be an accurate depiction of a scene. But when the book has characters with names like <<<<<<>>>>>> and <<<<<<>>>>>>, what can you expect? (NB these may not be totally accurate because I’m quoting from memory, but they ain’t far out.)
Or maybe it was <<<<<<>>>>>>…