Someone left the book cover out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to read it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
There are 2 men and one woman in a spaceship, but they aren’t blurry and smeared.
The book is just… embarrassing. Imagine a conservative hard SF guy writing something sympathetic to, like, the groovy hippie world view. That’s this book. One of Poul’s few stinkers, which I think is why I got it in the 5/$1 used book bundle.
So, cover and content suit each other.
I no longer have the book, I got my 20c worth of entertainment and passed it along.
@THX: GSS. Thanks for starting us off perfectly. Oh noooooo indeed. (I prefer the Donna Summer version. Actually I prefer Weird Al’s take on it)
@GSSxn—Glad you spent that twenty cents. I must be suffering from B’Mancer’s tears as well, since I thought it was two women and one epauletted man. So I guess General Ray-Gun there must be the actual Bi-Worlder.
@GSS xn: Donna did a good version, I agree, but there’s something majestic in Richard Harris’s original, like a grand folly. And the album it’s from is called A Tramp Shining, surely one of the worst titles of all time. But it did lead to a hilarious bit on SCTV.
@THX, x-n: the sad thing is, the line everyone remembers was itself pilfered from someone describing Somerset Maugham’s face. Specifically, it was a wedding-cake.
Baldy bald epaulet man is the untrustworthy ChiCom; nekkid man and woman are the good old American hippies (who are called “Byworlders” for no reason). Or at least the guy is, I forget who she was… maybe a scientist?
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May 26th, 2020 at 10:51 am
Someone left the book cover out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to read it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
May 26th, 2020 at 11:07 am
Beauty is in the watery eye of the byworlder.
@1. THX – Richard Harris, mixing alcohol with music to produce wonder.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/11/how-we-made-macarthur-park
May 26th, 2020 at 3:29 pm
It’s Dutch for ‘Bewildered’.
May 26th, 2020 at 3:42 pm
The rejected Purple Haze cover.
May 26th, 2020 at 4:54 pm
Captain Picard was not pleased by the new “jazz function” on the latest model transporter.
May 26th, 2020 at 6:04 pm
I assume that “beer goggles” are somehow an important part of the book’s plot…
May 26th, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Judging by the arrangement, I’d say the woman in the middle is a Bi-Worlder.
May 26th, 2020 at 10:23 pm
I must be having an emotional reaction to this cover. It’s like I’m looking at it through tear-filled eyes.
May 27th, 2020 at 2:45 am
I was going to send this one in.
There are 2 men and one woman in a spaceship, but they aren’t blurry and smeared.
The book is just… embarrassing. Imagine a conservative hard SF guy writing something sympathetic to, like, the groovy hippie world view. That’s this book. One of Poul’s few stinkers, which I think is why I got it in the 5/$1 used book bundle.
So, cover and content suit each other.
I no longer have the book, I got my 20c worth of entertainment and passed it along.
@THX: GSS. Thanks for starting us off perfectly. Oh noooooo indeed. (I prefer the Donna Summer version. Actually I prefer Weird Al’s take on it)
May 27th, 2020 at 4:11 am
I bet the first Biworld astronauts were very surprised by the view of thier planet.
May 27th, 2020 at 4:32 am
@GSSxn—Glad you spent that twenty cents. I must be suffering from B’Mancer’s tears as well, since I thought it was two women and one epauletted man. So I guess General Ray-Gun there must be the actual Bi-Worlder.
May 27th, 2020 at 10:59 am
@GSS xn: Donna did a good version, I agree, but there’s something majestic in Richard Harris’s original, like a grand folly. And the album it’s from is called A Tramp Shining, surely one of the worst titles of all time. But it did lead to a hilarious bit on SCTV.
May 28th, 2020 at 1:22 am
@THX, x-n: the sad thing is, the line everyone remembers was itself pilfered from someone describing Somerset Maugham’s face. Specifically, it was a wedding-cake.
May 28th, 2020 at 6:41 am
So, do the stripe-ed pair of pants refer to trousers or panties?
May 28th, 2020 at 8:04 am
Baldy bald epaulet man is the untrustworthy ChiCom; nekkid man and woman are the good old American hippies (who are called “Byworlders” for no reason). Or at least the guy is, I forget who she was… maybe a scientist?