More Than Human Not Without Sorcery sounds more fantasy than science fiction. What exactly is the scenario here anyway?
“Pardon me miss, but my ship seems to have either run aground or become wedged in your hair.”
“You,sir, have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. ”
Can a mermaid keep her hair dry? Not without sorcery! Can a flying fish escape a beating from a mermaid’s tail? Not without sorcery! Can a working class captain of third world appearance win the heart of a white-skinned godess? Not without sorcery!
The way the sea captain is standing is just… weird. Although I suppose not as weird as being in the middle of an ocean storm and the water only being waist deep.
When I first picked up this book the crappy font seemed to read Not Without SURGERY, and considering the mermaid lass that might be a more appropriate title.
Not quite sure what the half-pint Captain Kangaroo is doing standing waist-deep in the middle of the ocean.
@ Tag Wizard, please be a dear and add the author to the tags, unless he’s paid you well to leave him out of this mess.
Does that mermaid have an adam’s apple? Look at the face. I think that mermaid was born a merman. Tiny sea captain meets statuesque transsexual mermaid (hemaid? Mermale?) Online dating triumphs!
@David Cowie: But how can we be sure this “captain” is not a merman himself? His nether regions are hidden for a reason, and I’ll bet it isn’t because he’s bowlegged…
That is not a flying fish. Not with that left fin like that. Basic airflow will ensure uncontrolled roll to the left. So basically, that’s a crashing fish.
Mrs. Mermaid will hold up traffic all she wants, dammit. She is seeing off her little deformed flying-fish children before they head to college. They grow up so fast! Next thing you know, they will have metamorphosed into their adult forms!
June 13th, 2013 at 9:33 am
HEY! She stole part of that headpiece from She-ra.
June 13th, 2013 at 10:50 am
Mermaid or fish finger Barbie?
June 13th, 2013 at 11:00 am
More Than Human Not Without Sorcery sounds more fantasy than science fiction. What exactly is the scenario here anyway?
“Pardon me miss, but my ship seems to have either run aground or become wedged in your hair.”
“You,sir, have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. ”
1975 nominee for TUBOMIFAFANAF.
June 13th, 2013 at 11:14 am
… but completely without sense of proportion.
June 13th, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Conveniently located hair. Saves on the use of a space sheep or a C S Lewis.
June 13th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Can a mermaid keep her hair dry? Not without sorcery! Can a flying fish escape a beating from a mermaid’s tail? Not without sorcery! Can a working class captain of third world appearance win the heart of a white-skinned godess? Not without sorcery!
June 13th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
That’s a lot of hair.
June 13th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Not Without Sorcery http://t.co/oqU9SHvdxL
June 13th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
The way the sea captain is standing is just… weird. Although I suppose not as weird as being in the middle of an ocean storm and the water only being waist deep.
June 13th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
“How did someone come up with a cover like this?”
“NOT WITHOUT SORCERY!”
June 13th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
I can only assume the flying fish is a major character in this book. Frank the orphan flying fish, who would be king of all flying fish!
What is Capt. Pervy reaching for with his left hand? OH GODS, what is Capt Pervy reaching down for with his right hand?????
June 13th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
When I first picked up this book the crappy font seemed to read Not Without SURGERY, and considering the mermaid lass that might be a more appropriate title.
Not quite sure what the half-pint Captain Kangaroo is doing standing waist-deep in the middle of the ocean.
@ Tag Wizard, please be a dear and add the author to the tags, unless he’s paid you well to leave him out of this mess.
June 13th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Captain, that’s enough of your sauce(ry)!
June 13th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Does that mermaid have an adam’s apple? Look at the face. I think that mermaid was born a merman. Tiny sea captain meets statuesque transsexual mermaid (hemaid? Mermale?) Online dating triumphs!
June 13th, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Is it time for a new tag “interspecies romance” ?
June 13th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Thanks Biblio! Admin and I must have crossed the streams this morning. Let us now navigate the works of Theodore Sturgeon without obstacle.
..and how could we forget: BEHIND YOU!
June 13th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
The flying fish really ties it all together.
June 13th, 2013 at 7:49 pm
‘How shall we speed this ship out from behind the mermaid, Captain?’
‘Knots without sorcery, able seaman!’
…I’ll get me coat.
June 13th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
@David Cowie: But how can we be sure this “captain” is not a merman himself? His nether regions are hidden for a reason, and I’ll bet it isn’t because he’s bowlegged…
June 13th, 2013 at 10:07 pm
What Captain Joseph Hazelwood thought he was doing when he crashed the Exxon Valdez: Trying not to run over a lovely mermaid.
June 13th, 2013 at 10:41 pm
Can’t help thinking that the cover artist, in choosing a fishy theme, was subconsciously influenced by the author’s surname.
June 13th, 2013 at 11:23 pm
That is not a flying fish. Not with that left fin like that. Basic airflow will ensure uncontrolled roll to the left. So basically, that’s a crashing fish.
June 13th, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Theodore Sturgeon’s NOT WITHOUT MY RUSSIAN CAVIAR
Ba-da-bum!
June 14th, 2013 at 12:30 am
It looks like the captain is strangely obsessed with her hair:
“Madam…your hair…so silky, so rich, so full of volume…I must know, how do you do it?”
June 14th, 2013 at 4:05 am
Hilarious placement of the first word of the title and the quote: “Not the best collection of Sturgeon’s work ever assembled…”
June 14th, 2013 at 5:24 am
Mrs. Mermaid will hold up traffic all she wants, dammit. She is seeing off her little deformed flying-fish children before they head to college. They grow up so fast! Next thing you know, they will have metamorphosed into their adult forms!
June 14th, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Do we need a “Modesty Hair” tag?
June 18th, 2013 at 4:51 am
What’s that on your head?
A wig!
~B-52s
July 9th, 2013 at 6:23 pm
“Aw c’mon baby. I swear I wasn’t looking at that other fish!”
July 15th, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Modesty-preserving hair!
December 31st, 2014 at 12:23 am
I have to throw in my vote for @FoM here: that’s no fish lady, that’s a fish dude that’s been taking some pills!
That salty seadog is in for a real shock when he sees what’s under her… oh, wait. Well, I guess he’s probably not in for a shock.
April 29th, 2015 at 4:21 pm
Is that a ship in the background or is he just pleased to see her?