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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Dominic Flandry Showcase
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1. Poul Anderson pulls a George R.R. Martin; kills off Flandry in a first chapter surprise!
2. Signet decides that putting Flandry’s face or name on the cover does not sell books.
Thanks to Charles for sending one in.
Published 1975, 1987
(Average: 3.96 out of 10)
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(9.25 out of 10)
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June 18th, 2019 at 9:47 am
Must be the Award-Winner’s biography of Poul Anderson, he lived in exciting times!
June 18th, 2019 at 11:20 am
1. Who am I rooting for here? Looks like the hero is using the damsel as a human shield.
2. Smokin’ hot!
June 18th, 2019 at 11:37 am
1: The ceilidh takes a sinister turn.
2: “Ooh, no, you mustn’t see my ladybits! Fortunately I have a 50 a day Capstain Full Strength habit to preserve my modesty!”
June 18th, 2019 at 1:13 pm
1. The extra crotch armor was probably Flandry’s idea and Dick Blade laughs mockingly.
2. Not that old ‘Kirk adjusts the Academy transporters again’ gag.
June 18th, 2019 at 1:17 pm
1. Original visualization of the final fight of Terminator 2 needed work.
2. Even her hair is wispy mist. “My oath of celibacy is on record, Captain.”
June 18th, 2019 at 2:40 pm
1. Total capitulation to the “Hands and Feet are Hard to Draw” dictum.
2. Given that it’s the only thing she’s wearing (besides the smoke), you’d think her bracelet’s “ting” would get a nod.
June 18th, 2019 at 4:38 pm
1: A robot rescues a young lady from a kidnapping attempt.
2: The same young lady is persuaded to pose for a nude.
In all that, there’s one question: Who or what is this Flandry supposed to be?
June 18th, 2019 at 6:08 pm
1. It’s all fun and games until…
2. What’s up with her left foot? Is she actually a woman-shaped lollipop? On fire?
June 18th, 2019 at 7:35 pm
Who is Flandry?
Just a man with a man’s courage
You know he’s nothing but a man
And he can never fail
No one but the pure at heart
May find the Golden Grail
June 18th, 2019 at 9:16 pm
@THX Don’t ceilidh’s always take a sinister turn? Or is that just Irish ceilidh?
June 18th, 2019 at 9:18 pm
@THX Don’t ceilidh’s always take a sinister turn? Or is that just Irish ceilidh?
#2 These millenials are getting pretty good at blowing vape rings.
June 18th, 2019 at 9:51 pm
#1: OK, he’s [1] shooting the guy in the head and waving to Mom while making a rocket-propelled leap into the air, but where is that third jet coming from? The other two are coming from lil’ rocket packs on his waist, but the other seems to be just randomly emerging from the side of his boot. Was that supposed to be someone shooting at him with a zappy ray and they colored it in wrong?
#2: GSS: Signet falls back on the old reliable “sex sells, and nobody cares what people see them reading on the bus.”
[1] She’s? Unlikely in 1970s Poul Anderson, but not impossible.
June 19th, 2019 at 2:30 am
#1. I’m confused. Which is Flandry – the guy taking the head-shot from a plasma gun, Robot-looking-thing with three lasers and a plasma gun, or the well-endowed hostage?
#2. Hm. Maybe the well-endowed hostage on cover #1 *is* Flandry. Boy, that’d be a surprise twist in the Flandry saga, wouldn’t it?
June 19th, 2019 at 4:07 am
Here’s the soundtrack to at least one of these covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_b47-v1ec
June 19th, 2019 at 4:30 am
@Hammy: Flandry is a transsexual from the planet Transylvania? There’s a crossover!
June 20th, 2019 at 4:26 am
@Bruce A. M.(prev.):
Well, it’s possible, I guess. On most of the previous Flandry covers we’ve had here –
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=14081 and
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11476 and
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3211
Flandry’s always chasing the girl. Maybe he finds out in this one what it feels like….
(N.B. there are other Flandry covers that don’t feature well-endowed females, but fewer than those that do)
June 22nd, 2019 at 10:29 pm
Going by the aesthetics and inflation, the bottom one is 1975 and the top is 1987. So, by the mid-80s, readers wanted to see Flandry shot rather than getting nekkid? Was this Tipper Gore at work?
June 24th, 2019 at 9:05 pm
@Anatole I think it was the Gipper rather than the Tipper.
#1 has the bald bloke, Nadia Cassini and the robot sidekick of Caroline Munro from Starcrash!
June 25th, 2019 at 2:13 am
@Ray P: you’re right!
Flandry covers tend to have pneumatic women on them, but #2 has such a distinct lack of Flandry that I wonder if it was intended to be the cover for something else.