Nov 19
Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: Eros at rock bottom. Now that’s worth a read.
Published 1986
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JuanPaul Comments: Eros at rock bottom. Now that’s worth a read.
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November 19th, 2018 at 10:00 am
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
November 19th, 2018 at 11:02 am
I’d make a joke but I have a disturbing that this book does in fact include zero-G double amputee sex and somehow I’m all joked out.
November 19th, 2018 at 11:27 am
“C’mere baby and let me show you my ‘velvet comet’,” he said with a smirk.
November 19th, 2018 at 1:36 pm
Something something something Oumuamua something something Trump something something tweet storm something 25th Amendment.
November 19th, 2018 at 2:00 pm
(Getting) Off on a Comet by “Family Jules” Verne
November 19th, 2018 at 2:55 pm
If 2001 had been directed by Russ Meyer.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:12 pm
They must have discovered that too much Eros just makes you Sore.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:25 pm
I was also thinking Emmanuelle in Orbit. Then I discovered Emmanuelle: First Contact exists.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:09 pm
Is it wrong that I’m more interested in how they avoid blow-outs when there are square-cornered windows in a pressurised vessel? Is the comet in question a De Havilland?
November 19th, 2018 at 4:44 pm
If a computer can be more humane than man, I guess a bald person would be more human than mane.
November 19th, 2018 at 5:11 pm
@B. Chiclitz – [RIMSHOT]
November 19th, 2018 at 5:33 pm
@Bibliomancer—I’m trapped in word play hell today. Must be the thought of what’s under that flimsy green sheet making me crazed.
November 19th, 2018 at 5:39 pm
@THX 1139: [thunderous applause]
In all seriousness, Eros is NOT a comet. It’s an ASTEROID. Also, if you ask fans of The Expanse, an eldritch abomination. But it definitely is not a comet.
November 19th, 2018 at 5:55 pm
Going from GSS worthy science fiction to GSS worthy science fact I present……..wombat poop.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/australia/wombat-cube-poo-intl/index.html
November 19th, 2018 at 7:28 pm
Am I hallucinating or is there some kind of green lizard or frog-like creature squatting between her legs?
November 20th, 2018 at 1:45 am
Isn’t it nice when the title and cover art agree? This is a nadir, all right.
That… woman? has all kinds of anatomical issues. Like, no lower legs, not even knees. Also weird hips, extra-long arms, odd neck, and what happened to her face? And her chest?
Even the blurb’s wrong — it says “science fiction” when it should have said “stroke book”.
@Francis (2): I fear that as well.
@Tat (9): The windows are less disturbing to look at, even with your valid observation.
@Anna T (13): You are entirely correct.
@fred (14): I saw that yesterday. And what’s it say when implausibly-shaped marsupial excrement is more interesting and less disquieting than this cover?
November 20th, 2018 at 1:52 am
I personally am disturbed by the fact that this is #4 in a series. Go home Mike, you’re drunk.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:35 am
@Tat (#9):
Not a DeHavilland Comet, no. Mercury Comet, an underpowered example of which my folks owned in the early 1960s. Theirs wasn’t black, though – it was pale yellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Comet#/media/File:1962_Mercury_Comet_4-door_sedan_(black,_front_left).jpg
November 20th, 2018 at 3:40 am
@BAM—Well, you know what they say, two’s company, three’s a crowd and four’s the nadir.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:45 pm
GSSXN: Apparently not much of a stroke book (Ive never read it). Second one of this series we’ve had (the other, Eros Ascending, is here: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4460), and Eros Ascending was published by Phantasia, like last Thursday’s startling effort.. I note that no less an authority than Ian Sales described Eros Ascending as “meh”.
November 20th, 2018 at 10:36 pm
@LL: So if the first (Ascending) was “meh”, then the last one must truly be the nadir. The naked woman isn’t even playing chess.
@Hammy: I remember those. Either the outer space version was bigger, or the woman is much smaller. Maybe she’s a Barbie doll rip-off, which would explain the missing limbs and odd anatomy.