@Dead Stuff (10): So the Mantisoids are backing off because they didn’t realise this was a Romcom from 2006. It’s not the baby that grosses them out, it’s Jennifer Aniston.
@Tat Wood—would that be the legendary Three Bugs and a Baby ? Directed by Leonard Nimoy in order to bring the worlds of sci-fi and romcom together, and a tour de force of thoraxes and cuddles!
@B. Chiclitz: it had alternate endings, as I recall, one where the baby ate the bugs, one where they ate the baby and a third where the baby started talking like Bruce Willis.
All more plausible than ‘Three Men and a Little Lady’ and its idea of Englandland.
If you reversed the position of the white family man and the aliens, you would have an accurate depiction of Republican perceptions of American immigration policy.
A man, check.
A woman, nope.
A rocket, okay.
Trousers, nope, not for any species.
Baby, unmentioned in blurb, and as everyone else said, we hope that’s not the woman.
Can’t figure out how the mantisoids get those leotards on. Must be bodysuits and we just can’t see the snaps.
Must admit that a man with long-ish hair, beard, and baby is remarkably forward-looking for 1959, yay Emsh. To say nothing of the thong.
The man pictured would later become
FIRST IN GAY BARS
FIRST IN BEARS
October 19th, 2017 at 10:38 am
“It’s OK, I’m just posing for an Athena poster!”
October 19th, 2017 at 12:15 pm
I hope the woman isn’t the infant in his arms. Squick!
October 19th, 2017 at 12:16 pm
That halo looks a bit out of place.
October 19th, 2017 at 12:29 pm
The insect people clothing implies some rather unlikely physiology, unless the plot required Harvey Weinstein aliens.
October 19th, 2017 at 12:40 pm
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth
You don’t seem to know much about babies: that’s the rocket.
October 19th, 2017 at 1:24 pm
He may not be the woman, but he’s wearing her skirt.
October 19th, 2017 at 1:26 pm
So this is the masterpiece that finally got Gordon “The Gord” Dickson coronated—it’s Gordon Rex!
October 19th, 2017 at 1:33 pm
“Hey guys, put down the ray guns. We’re Praying Mantises, not Fighting Mantises!”
October 19th, 2017 at 2:44 pm
@FB: …I suppose I don’t know much about babies!
/me is AFK, baby [pager:OFF] [birds:BEES]
October 19th, 2017 at 2:48 pm
Order a man and a woman to pilot the first space-ship, disregard the fact that they hate each other, overlook some of the terrifying secrets of outer space, and what you get is the basis of one of the most exciting interplanetary adventures ever written.
Goodness, there can be a worse blurb than “First Book Publication”!
October 19th, 2017 at 4:20 pm
@Dead Stuff (10): So the Mantisoids are backing off because they didn’t realise this was a Romcom from 2006. It’s not the baby that grosses them out, it’s Jennifer Aniston.
October 19th, 2017 at 4:47 pm
“Hey aliens, help me out. Are you busy for the next 18 years?”
October 19th, 2017 at 4:52 pm
@Tat Wood—would that be the legendary Three Bugs and a Baby ? Directed by Leonard Nimoy in order to bring the worlds of sci-fi and romcom together, and a tour de force of thoraxes and cuddles!
October 19th, 2017 at 5:15 pm
@B. Chiclitz: it had alternate endings, as I recall, one where the baby ate the bugs, one where they ate the baby and a third where the baby started talking like Bruce Willis.
All more plausible than ‘Three Men and a Little Lady’ and its idea of Englandland.
October 19th, 2017 at 5:30 pm
“Hey! Any of you bug guys know how to change a diaper?”
October 19th, 2017 at 6:22 pm
Rex also wrote First on Mars. Is this part of a series? Do they all rhyme?
October 19th, 2017 at 6:43 pm
@Raoul:
FIRST TO THE STARS
FIRST ON MARS
FIRST TO SHOOT PAR
FIRST AT THE BARS
October 19th, 2017 at 7:06 pm
I don’t know where the woman is, but I found the spaceship hiding in plain sight.
October 19th, 2017 at 7:08 pm
“We of Earth come to barter a first-born child for your nifty laser pointers.”
October 19th, 2017 at 9:38 pm
I have to wonder if the aliens are staring at that guy with such revulsion because he’s wearing his loincloth backwards.
October 19th, 2017 at 11:40 pm
If you reversed the position of the white family man and the aliens, you would have an accurate depiction of Republican perceptions of American immigration policy.
October 20th, 2017 at 12:24 am
A man, check.
A woman, nope.
A rocket, okay.
Trousers, nope, not for any species.
Baby, unmentioned in blurb, and as everyone else said, we hope that’s not the woman.
Can’t figure out how the mantisoids get those leotards on. Must be bodysuits and we just can’t see the snaps.
Must admit that a man with long-ish hair, beard, and baby is remarkably forward-looking for 1959, yay Emsh. To say nothing of the thong.
The man pictured would later become
FIRST IN GAY BARS
FIRST IN BEARS
October 20th, 2017 at 12:30 am
“These creatures called hu-mans must be wanting in intelligence. He put the diaper on himself instead of the baby.”
“Yeah. He’s gonna regret that.”
October 20th, 2017 at 1:23 am
@Tor – Good one! 🙂
October 20th, 2017 at 12:50 pm
Brendan never twigged to the fact that Swift’s Modest Proposal was intended as satire.
October 20th, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Mantises: “Very well, earth man. We take the baby, you take care of our cephalopod infestation.”
October 23rd, 2017 at 7:15 am
@DSWBT: And speaking of that cover, the re-creation guest-starring ME will arrive tomorrow!
I’ll send it to Tag Wizard.
January 22nd, 2019 at 1:26 am
And last to the wardrobe.
December 14th, 2021 at 11:15 am
First to the stars. Last in line at the WC.