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Published 1995
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Bibliomancer Comments: When using the General Atomic hair dryer, always start on the low setting.
Published 1995
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November 28th, 2018 at 10:54 am
Not to be outdone by the Spice Girls reunion, Atomic Kitten plan their new image.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:37 pm
For a Women of Wonder cover, this is pretty decent.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:52 pm
That metal breast better light up and spin like a classic hypno wheel.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:18 pm
“What are your prime directives?”
“Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Get nails done.”
November 28th, 2018 at 2:49 pm
300 bitcoin, payable through Chinese GSS, to whoever can tell me what a “contemporary year” is.
November 28th, 2018 at 3:54 pm
@B.Chiclitz: in Japan and elsewhere, the year you’re in is ‘Year Zero’ and all previous years are retroactively redated as -1, -2, -3 and so on. So we’re always in a contemporary year.
Or maybe it’s like architecture, painting and writing, where ‘Modernism’ was the big thing between 1925 and 1970.
Or maybe they’re travelling NAFAL and it’s going to be 1983 (for them) for a very long time (as we see it).
November 28th, 2018 at 5:02 pm
“Women of Wonder: The Temp Years”
When they were in between jobs and couldn’t find steady employment
November 28th, 2018 at 5:19 pm
I nominate her to lead the next Women’s March
November 28th, 2018 at 5:32 pm
@TatW—So, following the Modernism analogy, I guess we’re now in post-contemporary years.
November 28th, 2018 at 5:47 pm
@B. Chiclitz – You might like to read my latest postmodern lit crit book: “Lady Women Writers and their Present-day Contemporaries”. Available wherever self-published books sit unsold.
November 28th, 2018 at 6:46 pm
@Bibliomancer—I thought the title of that volume was “Voices of Lady Women Writers and their Present-day Contemporaries.” At least that’s the title I bought through Chinese GSS Booksellers.
November 28th, 2018 at 8:22 pm
@BC (9): I grew up watching ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ so ‘contemporary’ means Mark Twain lookalikes in scoop-necked cheesecloth shirts and flared Levis doing noodly guitar solos for what seemed like months on end. Everything since the first time The Jam were on Top of the Pops (May 1977) is ‘post-contemporary’.
November 29th, 2018 at 12:09 am
I’m a Woman, and I Wonder who thought this cover was a good idea.
ISTM that filling the cover with three bad hair days and three cases of RBF/anger, plus giant purple boobs front and center doesn’t exactly scream “fiction that uplifts women”. Also, it wouldn’t have killed them to get a female artist.
Or were they trying to trick the male no-girls-allowed SF readers into buying this, by putting a giant weapon, boobs, orange, and font abuse on the cover, hoping they’d think it was by BAEN! see previous clause
Purple lady’s waist/hip seems to have anatomical issues… must be suffering from the weight of the boobs, big gun, and metal arm?
@fred: I bet it does. She hypnotizes her enemies with it and then shoots them. Or chokes them with the metal arm. Or blow-dries them to death.
I think we’re in post-post-contemporary, though I’d put the date of change a few years later than @Tat Wood. 1995 is definitely post-contemporary.
As one of the former commenters used to note: Teal and Orange.
November 29th, 2018 at 8:27 am
Since the cyber-boob is not remotely in the right position I’m going to assume that it has built-in tracking capability. Someone, please, increment the canonical count of fetishes.
November 29th, 2018 at 5:54 pm
@GSS ex-noob: Brilliant pun. And I don’t often say that.
Anyway, I think she ought to complain about the underwhelming design of her prosthetic hand, which does not look so much like a hand as it does a claw.
November 29th, 2018 at 8:27 pm
Half Borg, half sexy underwear model.
November 30th, 2018 at 7:49 am
@AnnaT: thank’ee.
I guess her unhappiness is understandable, what with the claw awkwardly attached to her torso and then the wires going to her metal head. All that for something that looks unwieldy and dangerous to herself. And is that a dent with smoke coming out of it on the other side of her head? No wonder she’s cranky.
December 1st, 2018 at 12:03 am
@GSSxN (13): in interior decor terms, ‘contemporary’ meant everything from the Festival of Britain (all that relentlessly jaunty Lucien Day wallpaper, crockery and fabrics) through Heal’s and early Terence Conran to the abrupt lurch into retro: naff Laura Ashley, Welsh Dressers and ghastly Denby coffee-sets. So, yes,about Spring 1977.
December 1st, 2018 at 7:00 am
@Tat: I’m thinking a bit later — 1977 was still polyester, disco, shiny wallpaper, faint remnants of Avocado Green and Harvest Gold in interior design. All the retro naff came a bit later.
Early 1979, maybe. When the 80s were rushing upon us all. Like an oncoming Ayatollah (or Thatcher, but I repeat myself), a flat broke ugly Chrysler sedan, or that killer rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter.
December 3rd, 2018 at 5:53 pm
♪ Strut pout, put it out, that’s what you want from cyborgs. ♪
December 4th, 2018 at 7:56 am
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
and the cyborg girls go doot-doot-dooot-doo-doot…
December 8th, 2018 at 9:13 am
@Tat Wood (6) Huh? That’s not how Japanese number years. They count from the start of the current Emperor’s reign. Years from previous Emperor’s reigns are counted from the start of the reigning Emperor’s reign.
December 19th, 2018 at 10:45 pm
As an old 2000ad reader when I look at Purple Catsuit Cyborg lady in the middle and that arm, I keep thinking the artist was painting a female version of Mean Machine Angel for… his own reasons I suppose. Presumably the right cyberboob has four settings to adjust.. I should stop now shouldn’t I?
January 3rd, 2019 at 12:06 pm
After a dispute over how to share media attention fairly among all members, the all-girl band Women of Wonder split up.
Cyborg Woman embarked on a short-lived solo career, flopping badly with the no-hit single “Look At Me, I’ve Got Implants All Over”.
Alien Woman started the modestly successful cosmetics brand Extreme Nailz.
Tough Woman opened a very successful gym which later expanded into the gym chain Wonder Workout.