Aug 11
Good Show Sir Comments: Future teen drives the family crazy with whatever-that-is they call music.
Published 1979
Good Show Sir Comments: Future teen drives the family crazy with whatever-that-is they call music.
Published 1979
August 11th, 2016 at 11:45 am
This is one of those French covers, isn’t it?
August 11th, 2016 at 11:50 am
To serve mankind first you must have an oven.
August 11th, 2016 at 12:42 pm
Gets your hair dry in SECONDS.
August 11th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
The Kings of Numenor in the 8th age of middle earth
August 11th, 2016 at 1:29 pm
@Tom Noir – You win the comments today. I got nothing better than that. 😀
August 11th, 2016 at 1:56 pm
‘Tar-Aiym Krang’ is the noise the machine made when they loaded him in.
Edit: I stand corrected. Tar-Aiym Krang is the noise someone else made in response.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:37 pm
I’m pretty sure,this is an amstrad sunbed – made in north korea ,as per usual.
They are very ,very loud and not in a good way – thanks sir alun !
August 11th, 2016 at 4:07 pm
What a noisy place to belong
Is the Tar-Aiym Tar-Aiym Krang.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:37 pm
He set the controls for the heart of the sun. Or sonic attack.
August 11th, 2016 at 5:37 pm
“Snakes on a Brain!” the sequel.
August 11th, 2016 at 6:12 pm
The guy on the right seems to have some impressive dance moves . . . if he’s not collapsing at some sound obviously not conveyed in the picture.
Also, I’m not sure about that tanning bed. It doesn’t look especially safe.
August 11th, 2016 at 9:20 pm
“C’mon, rub in the conditioner… rub it in… “
August 12th, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Get a self-similar night’s sleep on your..
MANDELBROPEDIC MATRESS!(tm)
August 12th, 2016 at 1:40 pm
Is it possible that the Tar-Aiym Krang is some relation to
Tarra Khash: Hrossak!- a cousin, perhaps?
August 12th, 2016 at 1:48 pm
@RachelJ – The Gibberish Twins?
August 12th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
@Tag Wizard Sounds right. No doubt they’re close friends of Manalacor of Veltakin and Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets.
August 12th, 2016 at 3:03 pm
@TW, RJ: Gibberish Twin Powers Activate!
August 13th, 2016 at 1:18 pm
@Dead Stuff (#6). Thoughts on that article:
– I am genuinely surprised that a first novel entitled “The Tar-Aiym Krang” ever resulted in a second novel, let alone about 100. Good show, Alan Dean Foster!
-1972? “Flinx’s quest to discover the identities of his parents and the source of his strange mental abilities” began in 1972!? I read one of these published within the last ten years and the poor chap was still searching the galaxy, none the wiser. How depressing.
August 13th, 2016 at 3:05 pm
@RachelJ: his searching technique involves putting his dragon on his head, underneath his crash helmet, and then jazzing out in his specialty stereo. Unless his parents are hippies, maybe it’s that he is simply awful at finding things.
August 15th, 2016 at 10:36 am
It’s always in the last place you look.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:35 am
@DSWBT – Thank you for making my day…I love it when people can make jokes about Mandelbrot.
March 30th, 2017 at 10:57 am
You know, nowadays these old sci-fi classic can be re-released in ebook format — at a fractal of the original cost.
September 15th, 2019 at 1:53 pm
This little-known spin-off of the heavy-metal magazine KERRRANNG!! folded after just one issue.
July 24th, 2023 at 12:50 am
I am currently reading a book by Foster wherein he discusses some of the many novelizations he’s written. “The Director Should Have Shot You”. Chatty, although badly proofread. Barely worth the $1.99 I paid.
In it, it is revealed that the estimable Lester del Rey opined that this was the worst possible title for an SF book. But he published it anyway.
I believe everyone agrees with Lester’s initial thought.
(Flinx finally found out what his origin story is in 2009.)