Apr 26
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Ryan Comments: After his third glass of whiskey, Cowboy Joe began to suspect his companion was a man dressed as a woman.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • damsel • dance fever • David Mattingly • drunkie • dude • floating head • Joe Clifford Faust
Feb 23
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Ryan Comments: Hey, Poul, I bet you can’t write a SciFi novel that references Shakespeare and contains D’Artagnan, the Ring Cycle, steam-powered locomotives, Classical Greek architecture, and bearded monks!
Published 1975
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • flying horse • knights • mighty moustache • monks • Poul Anderson • ruins • staff • trains • viking helmet
Feb 01
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Ryan’s Art Direction: “The story is called, ‘Rocket Jockey’, so draw some spaceships orbiting Jupiter along with a trash-compactor-carrying milkman wielding a plumber’s tool.”
Published 1982
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • David Mattingly • dude • keg • Lester Del Rey • monkey wrench • nerd • rocket
Jan 25
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Ryan Comments: Defeated in single combat by a guy wearing a loincloth, set ablaze and hurled onto the waiting weapons of his own men – he was probably not impressing the babe in the bikini.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: anger management • Ballantine Books • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • capes • damsel • Edgar Rice Burroughs • flaming asshole • loincloth • Neal Adams • pole weapons • sixpack abs • Tarzan Series
Jan 19
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Ryan Comments: Is the first of the stories about restraining a gigantic alien and performing multiple amputations, in space?
Published 1987
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • David Mattingly • font problems • James White • space cadets • space ship • strange creature • strapping outfit
Nov 05
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Mungo Park Comments: Disraeli Gears
Published 1960
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • damsel • dude • Frederik Pohl • gears • moon • Robert Foster • starkers
Oct 22
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Ryan Comments: I don’t think that the blurb writer understands how time works. And the illustrator has some interesting ideas about what occurs underwater.
Tag Wizard: And that brings Ryan Week to an end here at GSS. Thanks for the mother lode of covers.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anorak • Ballantine Books • beard-wielding • boat people • Darrell K. Sweet • dudes • font problems • he's dead Jim • searchlights • underwater • Wilson Tucker
Oct 12
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Bibliomancer Comments: Painted by Unhuman Hands.
Published 1960
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Blanchard • googly eyes • little people • Robert Sheckley • rocket • worm • WTF
Aug 24
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Chauncy comments: “Thrilling non-stop sci-fi action!” — Field and Stream
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • boredom • Clifford D. Simak • Del Rey Books • Dennis Luzak • dude • fishing • SFBC
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