This blurb writer should just be drummed out of the business. This has to be one of the weakest, flabbiest, lamest sentences ever written—”He sought our descendants in the world of millions of years hence”—really? Preposition much lately, scribe?
(Sorry, not my usual playful self. I stand guilty to the charge of over reacting. But I believe that misuse of language has large social and political implications, and I guess I am feeling a bit self-righteous, and scared, these days.)
@B. Chiclitz – I share your pain, bro. Hence = from here.
“He sought our descendants in the world of millions of years from this place”
Henceforth = from this time on.
Maybe they glued that bat-wing over the “forth”
Still, anyone using “henceforth” in a Ace Book blurb …
… needs to find the gates of death …
… and live!
@Tat Wood – That’s who he looks like! “Sock it to me?”
Doesn’t look stone to me. Doesn’t look like he was ever stone. Or is he our hence or thence (could be both) descendant? Why the purple and orange? Why the mohawk? Wouldn’t total baldness be more aerodynamic? That critter needs all the help he can get to stay aloft, let’s face it.
Ugly artwork, nonsensical blurb, I would run away from this book and never read it.
Oh, the Stone God from the title? He’s a human that was “frozen at a molecular level” (whatever that means), and get thawed out millions of years later and mistaken for a fulfilment of a prophecy. He then leads his devoted worshippers (a tribe of anthropomorphic talking cats) on a quest to see if there are any other humans left. What that’s got to do with evil balloon animal bats is quite beyond me I’m afraid.
May 25th, 2017 at 11:04 am
Say cheese…
May 25th, 2017 at 11:18 am
‘At’s me, before I’ve had my morning cuppa.
May 25th, 2017 at 11:20 am
I hate to ask, but why the purple highlights?
May 25th, 2017 at 11:49 am
Stealing this title for my next 80’s hair metal concept album.
May 25th, 2017 at 12:42 pm
The Stoned Book Buyer Batman
May 25th, 2017 at 1:00 pm
“I want my two dollars!”
May 25th, 2017 at 1:36 pm
I’m starting to feel sorry for Philip José Farmer.
May 25th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
You’ve changed, Travis Bickle, and not for the better.
May 25th, 2017 at 2:47 pm
If I were a God I think I would go with a mullet and not that mowhawk.
What are the aerodynamic advantages of butt wings?
May 25th, 2017 at 2:48 pm
@FB I wonder how Farmer feels about these covers. I can imagine him insisting on the bizarre.
May 25th, 2017 at 3:06 pm
@fred: I think that’s a tail. If so, it gives stability and both pitch and roll control at the expense of increased drag.
Since we’re talking about google-eyed bat-winged potatoes, I think it adds a note of realism.
May 25th, 2017 at 5:04 pm
“I am not a crook!”
May 25th, 2017 at 5:22 pm
This blurb writer should just be drummed out of the business. This has to be one of the weakest, flabbiest, lamest sentences ever written—”He sought our descendants in the world of millions of years hence”—really? Preposition much lately, scribe?
(Sorry, not my usual playful self. I stand guilty to the charge of over reacting. But I believe that misuse of language has large social and political implications, and I guess I am feeling a bit self-righteous, and scared, these days.)
May 25th, 2017 at 5:40 pm
They look like the unfortunate children of vampire bats and oni. Yeah, just for the record, no one try that crossbreed again.
May 25th, 2017 at 5:51 pm
@bc I share your fury at the blurb. It seems lazy and careless to put such an awkward sentence on the cover.
May 25th, 2017 at 8:18 pm
@B. Chiclitz – I share your pain, bro. Hence = from here.
“He sought our descendants in the world of millions of years from this place”
Henceforth = from this time on.
Maybe they glued that bat-wing over the “forth”
Still, anyone using “henceforth” in a Ace Book blurb …
… needs to find the gates of death …
… and live!
@Tat Wood – That’s who he looks like! “Sock it to me?”
May 25th, 2017 at 9:55 pm
I was thinking he looks like Yondu from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’.
May 25th, 2017 at 11:15 pm
Doesn’t look stone to me. Doesn’t look like he was ever stone. Or is he our hence or thence (could be both) descendant? Why the purple and orange? Why the mohawk? Wouldn’t total baldness be more aerodynamic? That critter needs all the help he can get to stay aloft, let’s face it.
Ugly artwork, nonsensical blurb, I would run away from this book and never read it.
May 26th, 2017 at 4:03 am
GAWD, why’d i look at this before bedtime?!?
May 26th, 2017 at 12:56 pm
Oh, the Stone God from the title? He’s a human that was “frozen at a molecular level” (whatever that means), and get thawed out millions of years later and mistaken for a fulfilment of a prophecy. He then leads his devoted worshippers (a tribe of anthropomorphic talking cats) on a quest to see if there are any other humans left. What that’s got to do with evil balloon animal bats is quite beyond me I’m afraid.
May 27th, 2017 at 5:55 am
@DaveM”
Oh, so it’s “Red Dwarf” fan-fic? 😉
May 27th, 2017 at 9:17 am
@Hammy,
You know, I can honestly say I didn’t think of that when I wrote the comment, now I can’t NOT think of it!
Good Show Sir! Good Show Indeed!
May 29th, 2017 at 8:33 am
This blurb was generated with the Blurbinator — try it yourself!
“He (1) our (2) in the (3) “
(1)
a) Sought
b) Fiddled with
c) Extracted
d) Sued
e) Destroyed
f) Buttered
(2)
a) Descendants
b) Tax forms
c) Loins
d) Cat
e) Planet
f) Toast
(3)
a) World of millions of years hence
b) iPhone of tomorrow
c) Litterbox of Fate
d) Galactic Unmentionables
e) Tinfoil Hat of Doom
f) Kitchen
June 2nd, 2017 at 4:15 pm
So that’s what Mr. T looks like when he shaves…and consequently why he pities fools…