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Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: Trump shows up for the second debate even more unprepared and out of shape.
Published 1960
(Average: 8.26 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Trump shows up for the second debate even more unprepared and out of shape.
Published 1960
(Average: 8.26 out of 10)Loading...
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September 29th, 2016 at 12:30 pm
“Look ma I’m crowd surfing. Woooooo.”
September 29th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
You’re really going to have to lose weight if you want this sedan chair idea to take off.
September 29th, 2016 at 3:10 pm
The reviews keep discussing how perfect the cover is for the contents. And those contents?
“How many times had the weaklings of this world fled cowering before the wrath of Ruagh and others of his kind? It was of no comfort to recall and count such occasions. Now he, Ruagh—the unquestioned master of thousands—was himself in flight, before the terrible and not-to-be-withstood anger of blind nature. . . .” (p 5)
September 29th, 2016 at 3:37 pm
@3 If the human powered sedan is Ruagh’s plan of escape, he is totally screwed.
September 29th, 2016 at 3:44 pm
@JP: well, his mother named him Ruagh…fate wasn’t going to be nice to him no matter what.
September 29th, 2016 at 3:49 pm
The reviews keep rolling in:
I’ve noticed that in the novels I’ve read, Brunner will take some otherwise admirable prose and do something wrong with it: give it a bad structure, or poor word choice, maybe add some British inflection which doesn’t translate well.’
‘What we see is the Abomination himself, looking a bit like a fat blue crab/bird while terrified humans look off to the distance. This, in essence, is the whole story of The Atlantic Abomination, published in 1960’
September 29th, 2016 at 4:00 pm
@DSWBT – No, this is a Kaiju story according to this back cover.
http://www.dpspbs.com/pictures/000702_2.jpg?v=1441253450
September 29th, 2016 at 4:15 pm
@DSWBT – Ruagh sounds like a fine old Celtic name.
September 29th, 2016 at 5:05 pm
Er . . . the Abomination looks like a teenage relative of King Kong causing a sports stadium to collapse.
I think this might be a good candidate for the “WTF” tag, even if apparently it has some bearing on the book.
September 29th, 2016 at 5:10 pm
@fred: Thanks for the blurb, but let’s move the hyphens, shall we?
‘The Bruner-talent is manifest in this edge of the seat-novel about what happened when the first sea bottom-explorers brought up-the-not-so dead body of an inhuman intelligence that had been sealed up for innumerable eons.’
September 29th, 2016 at 5:25 pm
@fred—I like the way that blurb puts quotes around “Hugo” award. As though it’s not really an award? Or not really a Hugo? Maybe a Yugo award?
September 29th, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Nothing says “unspeakably horrific abomination of undead monstrosity” like cute little red ribbons dangling from your sedan chair.
September 29th, 2016 at 6:12 pm
@B.Chiclitz – Sedan chair? More like a surrey with the fringe on top.
Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry …
September 29th, 2016 at 7:47 pm
@TW: I was going to threaten you with shooting violence for getting Oklahoma! stuck in my head…but now I know, that’s how Ruagh manipulated humans to doing his bidding…
‘My lord, we, your humble serfs, beseech you for more bread.’
hElLo DaRkNeSs My OlD fRiEnD
‘No! Please! Mercy!’
iF yOuRe AlL aLoNe WhEn ThE pReTtY bIrDs HaVe FlOwN hOnEy Im StIlL fReE tAkE a ChAnCe On Me
September 29th, 2016 at 7:52 pm
Bigger cropped shot of the cover. There are some big dudes doing the heavy lifting. Like 10-12 ft tall. Also some breasts and butt. And possible ‘hanky panky’. And what appears to be a spermatozoa on the red flag. And a serious lack of non-Caucasians so the Trump allusion seems apt.
https://orthosphere.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/atlantic-abomination-02.jpg
September 29th, 2016 at 9:50 pm
@fred These Trumpers would be begging for immigrants to come take their jobs.
September 29th, 2016 at 11:03 pm
” ‘Bokrug’? what the heck kind of name is that. Why, it’s unpronounceable!”
“Oh, right,—Ruagh“
September 30th, 2016 at 8:28 am
– “Mr. Trump, what’s your opinion about Ruagh, The Atlantic Abomination?”
– “I would get along, I think, with Ruagh and I would get along with others.”
September 30th, 2016 at 8:29 am
Ruagh: “ARE WE THERE YET??”
September 30th, 2016 at 2:06 pm
Rod Stewart’s experimental follow up to Atlantic Crossing suffered poor sales.
September 30th, 2016 at 2:23 pm
@THX: Ruagh looks like the sort of fellow to shack up with Alana Hamilton, right enough.
October 1st, 2016 at 12:59 am
B-side: The Martian Missile by Donald A. Wollheim.