Jan 14
Click for larger imageFluffyGhostKitten Comments: There’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and then there’s this.
Published 1999
(Average: 7.53 out of 10)
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FluffyGhostKitten Comments: There’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and then there’s this.
Published 1999
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January 14th, 2021 at 10:17 am
“What shall we call this? Out of the Bottomlands? Right Up the Bottomlands? Race to the Bottomlands? So many possibilities…”
January 14th, 2021 at 12:41 pm
If it’s Turtledove then that is either Alexander the Great or Hernan Cortez.
January 14th, 2021 at 12:59 pm
@fred
Are you sure? It looks more like a chicken than either to me.
😉
January 14th, 2021 at 3:51 pm
@Max Bathroom: it looks like a mutant cardinal – is this a freaky alternative New England?
@THX: ‘Carry on Up the Bottomlands’? In which case, where’s Private Widdle?
January 14th, 2021 at 4:37 pm
I’ll take the “other places” thanks.
Also, if my memory isn’t completely addled, everyone on this cover should be Neanderthal which would have made it at least mildly interesting.
January 14th, 2021 at 4:49 pm
Down in the bottom lands … what?
January 14th, 2021 at 4:49 pm
Most one-sided cock fight I’ve ever seen.
January 14th, 2021 at 4:50 pm
In this alternative history, China sends a squad to try to prevent the creation of the Mexican flag.
January 14th, 2021 at 5:10 pm
The small animal serial killer is tracked to it’s lair.
ha-ha-ha-HA-ha ha-ha-ha-HA-ha
January 14th, 2021 at 5:49 pm
How the US Marine Corps get respect from the local wildlife.
January 14th, 2021 at 7:25 pm
It’s like Arrakis except when you walk rhythmically, you attract critters.
January 14th, 2021 at 11:27 pm
Very artful design in service of avoiding having to draw any feet whatsoever (except maybe the critters who don’t really count).
January 15th, 2021 at 12:12 am
@Francis Boyle: Look to me like the artist made a try at eyebrow ridges, but the shape of the guy’s skull is wrong. The other kids in Neanderthal School probably called him pickle head or some such.
January 15th, 2021 at 4:18 am
Another good book falling victim to being printed by BAEN!lotsofweaponsandmoreweapons
There are helicopters, and a bird, and a desert, and a bunch of people who don’t look like that at all because they’re either furry Neanderthals, or else what we’d call Black.
They missed one of their usual tricks, though — there are several explosions they could have portrayed.
I guess the shuriken and the blurb REALLY want you to know Harry won a Hugo for this. When it was in Analog.
(The Bottomlands are what you get when your alternate history blocks up the Straits of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean evaporates.)
@FB: The Other Places are worse, believe it or not.
January 15th, 2021 at 4:45 am
@GSS ex-noob: I’m pretty sure Neanderthals weren’t furry. Hairy, yes, but not outside the normal human range for that before everyone started waxing. (As a man whose back hair smoothly transitions into his cranial hair, I’d probably fit in fine.)
January 19th, 2021 at 12:09 pm
“Careful, men — that bird is a killer!”