Mar 28
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Good Show Sir Comments: MANUFACTURERS WARNING! Crashing this space ship may result in a loss of all female clothing.
Published 1978
Many thanks to Chris!
Click for full UNLEWISED image
Good Show Sir Comments: MANUFACTURERS WARNING! Crashing this space ship may result in a loss of all female clothing.
Published 1978
Many thanks to Chris!
March 28th, 2014 at 9:32 am
“I wonder if I shouldn’t have taken this bit out after all?”
Incidentally, I don’t wish to sound like a raging pervert or nuthin’, but the un-Lewised image is the same as the Lewised image.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:51 am
Shame upon the both of you! Ignoring the poor girl and her plight! Where’s your humanity? All you want to do is ogle her firm breasts and perky nipples. (Okay, so yes I can see the unsheeped image, but that’s not the point)
March 28th, 2014 at 11:56 am
Err, well, I mean the ONE of you. Yes, there’s one comment, and two breasts. Two nicely depicted… excuse me, I’d better just go now.
March 28th, 2014 at 12:02 pm
This is odd. I posted a comment and was told I was forbidden, now one of the two that were there already has gone.
Mine wasn’t such a great joke, so no great loss, but does this mean more Ceefax music over the weekend?
March 28th, 2014 at 12:21 pm
Artist’s interpretation of the aphrodisiac pollen scene, perhaps? 😉
March 28th, 2014 at 12:48 pm
“I can’t believe the damage I caused by crashing this spaceship ” she thought. “I’ll never be able to reattach this belly-button rhinestone!”
March 28th, 2014 at 12:55 pm
Back stage right…is that a phallic rock formation? Or is it another crashed space ship, of the same make, model and colour? If it’s the latter, then perhaps this isn’t the safest place to fly and/or land on the planet, I’d think.
March 28th, 2014 at 2:05 pm
“I may have just crash-landed on an uncharted planet but that’s not going to stop me sitting here and looking FAAAABULOUS.”
March 28th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Did anyone consider that the damsel was sitting on this planet admiring her jewel when the other spaceships all crashed flying in too close to get a better look?
March 28th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Breasts, bling, and a giant space duck decoy for decoying giant space ducks. She seems totally unconcerned for someone who is about to be crushed to a pulp by the descending flock.
March 28th, 2014 at 5:57 pm
I think I now know all I need to about
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s psychic landscape. Good to see that even a self-described “feminist” author can appreciate the sales bump provided by a little good ol’ patriarchal T & A.
March 29th, 2014 at 12:09 am
@DSWBT – if those are identical spaceships crash-landed identically then that can mean only one thing; there is a nubile naked space wench sitting next to each crashed ship admiring her jewel in the sun.
I propose they all get together and……form a support group. Not that they’d wear one..
March 29th, 2014 at 6:54 pm
Good to see that even a self-described “feminist†author can appreciate the sales bump provided by a little good ol’ patriarchal T & A.
Because, as we all know, authors approve all the artwork solicited by the publishers of their works, especially when they are ‘feminists’.
March 29th, 2014 at 11:38 pm
“Good to see that even a self-described “feminist†author can appreciate the sales bump provided by a little good ol’ patriarchal T & A.”
American authors have very little say in the UK editions of their work, or vice versa – a situation which keeps this website in business.
March 30th, 2014 at 12:56 am
Good to see that even a self-described “feminist†author can appreciate the sales bump provided by a little good ol’ patriarchal T & A.
They’ve found an amazing dinosaur from the same rock formation as T. rex, and it hasn’t hardly any teeth at all. Would you believe?
April 1st, 2014 at 9:03 pm
What’s this? GSS is ALIVE?!?
April 1st, 2014 at 9:11 pm
@Tom Noir: to be said in a Brian Blessed voice.
April 1st, 2014 at 9:20 pm
Nice to have you back—yet again!
I thought I might have to spam the other commentators and try to get a replacement (English/American) site up and running, so we could have our daily fix of bad cover design.
@ Tom, the internet might be omnipotent and omnipresent, but it’s also at times quite ethereal. Maybe I should say—for future visitors to this page—that GSS has just today, returned from what we believe was an unexpected sabbatical.
Was it caused by the diabolical work of our ‘Friends’ at the Chinese GSS website?
April 1st, 2014 at 9:47 pm
I thought that “Technical Difficulties” gag was a long-running GSS April Fool’s joke.
If you visit Chinese GSS today they will commandeer your computer and add it their denial-of-service attack mindless zombie bot army. Hilarious April Fool’s fun!
April 1st, 2014 at 11:14 pm
That lass crashed so hard, she took down the Web site with her!
April 1st, 2014 at 11:43 pm
It’s working!?! HEY it’s working! Sweet.
Yes Kripslod you are correct… a sabbatical. I had to give a lecture on Book Covers at… Unknown College of Modern Art. They had orange juice and cake… and it was a great day.
Anyway… still lots of great covers to come! And also a server change. The GSS database is HUGE! That’s going to be fun.
April 2nd, 2014 at 1:29 am
@GSS Admin: Maybe it’s time to start storing pointers to image files instead of the files themselves.
@Tat Wood: I always say EVERYTHING in a Brian Blessed voice.
April 2nd, 2014 at 5:15 am
Didn’t mean to offend with my feminist remark. I guess its inappropriateness caused the site to blush and crash. It is rather clunky on rereading. I do understand that authors have little to say about their cover art, generally, but twice? Is it fair to point out this irony? Maybe, maybe not. Well, she wrote, she was a dedicated scrivener, she doesn’t deserve cheap shots, even if the cover begs for them. R.I.P. Ms. Bradley; apologies.
April 2nd, 2014 at 6:38 am
@ GSS Admin. Your comment about cake and orange juice brought back memories of the (self-service) breakfast bar at the Royal York in Toronto circa 1990. I have to admit to the guilty Schadenfrude I felt watching my English colleagues trying to cook crumpets in an old American style “bread only†toaster. Some finally resorted to placing the crumpets over the slots and hoping some heat might make it into the dough. I never could get them to develop a liking for good old dried-out and tasteless American “English Muffins‖ not that those fit any better, but at least you could eat them raw.
April 2nd, 2014 at 8:23 am
@Tom Noir – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0X0ZYbnHxA
April 3rd, 2014 at 9:17 am
@B Chiclitz. Judging from the reviews I’ve seen, feminism is not exactly a feature of this particular book anyway.
April 3rd, 2014 at 5:21 pm
The remaindered stock became Darkover Landfill.
April 3rd, 2014 at 7:34 pm
@Phil: I’m not laughing.
DARKOVER LANDFAIL!
April 9th, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Ba-Da-Bum, Dead Stuff!
😀
November 24th, 2014 at 5:53 pm
I had the chance to get this novella off of my stack thanks to a recent international airplane flight.
Bradley’s thesis seems to be, ‘Following delusional schizophrenics is always the way to go, especially in the absence of evidence; and song and dance are much more important to preserve than basic knowledge about the natural world.’
The cover seems to subvert the thesis.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:41 am
She doesn’t look like she’s just been in a spaceship crash . . .