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November 4th, 2019 at 9:24 am
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image of Dave Bautista.
November 4th, 2019 at 11:17 am
Where’s Gromit when Wallace is falling apart?
November 4th, 2019 at 11:24 am
@THX1139: …or John Merrick.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:48 pm
An artistic critique of the ‘Alien’ film franchise based on Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. This is what happens when you gift shop at the last possible moment.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:16 pm
Richard Hoagland has identified another face in space rocks.
But this NASA photograph is clearly a fake.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:47 pm
There’s a tiny “Saturn”, with a very narrow ring, halfway hidden in the “H” in “Earth.”
Such subtle craftmanship… such refinement!
November 4th, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Earth sent a statue for the colony’s birthday, but it it was made of really crappy clay and a bunch of nudists were injured when it inevitably fell apart.
@A.R. Yngve: and is that the Moon hiding in the “O?” A craftsman, perhaps, but one apparently subscribing to a rather dubious model of the solar system.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:53 pm
This week on Cake Wars, can the Naked Chefs salvage thier crumpling marzipan Ben Kingsley cake or are they doomed to an almond paste grave?
November 4th, 2019 at 4:14 pm
That reminds me. I have to pick up some more Head & Shoulders® shampoo.
November 4th, 2019 at 6:49 pm
“If you ask me, this whole Sisyphus thing is a bunch of hokum.”
November 4th, 2019 at 8:02 pm
Lamest Guy Fawkes effigy ever.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:36 am
Wow, this is another “cover has nowt to do with content” stunner.
Although I suppose that might be Earth at top, though we’re not the size and locale of Saturn.
Or “Eart” as it appears to read thanks to the lettering and planet being almost the same color. Maybe Saturn is doing the interplanetary high jump? I don’t know what celestial body is hiding in the O, making it appear to be an eyeball. It might BE the clay statue’s eyeball rolling around loose.
GSS to the submitter and all today’s commenters.
November 5th, 2019 at 1:58 am
Maybe the artist was getting his psychics confused and thought he was doing a cover for the Demolished Man?
(Also, I wish to object to the logo of Sphere Science Fiction. That is clearly a globe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe , not a sphere).
November 5th, 2019 at 3:55 am
We’re all assuming that the picture shows a statue crumbling. What if it’s self-assembling from rubble and forming, through sheer will-power, a votive bust of Brian Cant?
November 5th, 2019 at 4:35 am
@Bruce: Clicking on their tag, I wish to object to Sphere Books art and graphics department as a whole.
February 9th, 2024 at 10:44 pm
It’s that great Randy Newman song, ‘Bald People”.
February 9th, 2024 at 11:46 pm
@Bruce: Illustrating perfectly “they got no reason to live”.
In my youth, I knew a very short figure skater, who ended up at the Olympics. He did an exhibition routine to “Short People”. Leaning into the joke fully, he started it crouching with a cloak over him.
February 10th, 2024 at 12:02 am
@GSS ex-noob: that was @fred, not me.
Nowadays it could be a metaphor for Larry Niven’s writing career, with the little men at the bottom standing in for fans that just read “Fallen Angels.” Did he ever write anything better than “tolerable” after the early 80s?
February 10th, 2024 at 7:37 pm
The heartbreak of psoriasis.
February 10th, 2024 at 10:42 pm
@fred: Apologies! I award you a belated GSS.
@Bruce: None by himself. I was thinking there were some I enjoyed into the 90s, but Wiki tells me those were reprints of earlier stuff.
And let us not forget (even if we’d like to) the as-seen-on-GSS Man-Kzin Wars, which other people write.
It is SO GOOD to be back here.
February 10th, 2024 at 11:34 pm
If you’re pulling somebody apart as their epidermis flakes, that’s theft not a gift.