Feb 15
Click for larger imageFluffyGhostKitten Comments: Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Or in this case, out of the spaceship crash, into the cetacean foursome.
Published 1981
(Average: 6.67 out of 10)
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FluffyGhostKitten Comments: Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Or in this case, out of the spaceship crash, into the cetacean foursome.
Published 1981
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February 15th, 2021 at 9:36 am
That’s what you get for making your spaceship out of wood. You wind up In danger of drowning while being mocked for your faulty engineering by passing porpoise know-it-alls.
February 15th, 2021 at 10:20 am
“You guys are herbivores, right? Uh, no?”
February 15th, 2021 at 11:56 am
While his friends distracted the boy, Flipper sneaked up behind him and stole his trousers.
February 15th, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Fred, I don’t think it’s the spaceship that’s got wood.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:00 pm
We’d like a word about this toxic blue shit you just dumped on our home.
February 15th, 2021 at 3:56 pm
What good’s your opposable thumb NOW, perm-boy?
February 15th, 2021 at 4:56 pm
I am no expert on dolphins, but the artist does seem to have given each of them a definite facial expression of mockery.
February 15th, 2021 at 5:59 pm
I was under the impression you dolphins had an island.
February 15th, 2021 at 10:14 pm
Dolphin _rape_ island.
“You look like a swinger: care for a foursome?”
Maybe it’s a coloring error, but one of those dolphins appears to be radioactive, or at least phosphorescent.
February 16th, 2021 at 12:44 am
This pic is of a faded cover. Imagine it in full color. It’d rate at least a point higher on our scientific scoring scale. Guess how I know.
The “A” in “Island” has no business being like that. The “L” trying to cover it up doesn’t help. I somehow feel the font contributed to the crash.
Dolphin conversation is laughter and discussing if they’re going to rape him before eating him, judging by their expressions.
@B’man: only if they’re blue.
Examining our actual copy, hoo-boy. It’s worse than you suspect. The title is BRIGHT. The kid’s shirt is RED. OTOH, the ocean’s all the same colors of blue, so no bad substances. The dolphins look a LOT meaner.
The orphan is 16, stows away on a hovercraft cargo ship that crashes, whereupon he floats around on a crate till the dolphins push him to the titular island near the Great Barrier Reef, where scientists talk to the dolphins (awww) and use electric shock conditioning to train orcas not to eat dolphins (wut?). And ACC goes on for pages reproducing his scuba explorations of the reef.
Why a bunch of cutting-edge Aussie scientists allow a random runaway foreign teenager to help with their big project is… because it’s a YA book?
(Originally published in 1963)
February 16th, 2021 at 5:19 am
“I’m telling’ ya, Earl, they taste just like chicken.”
February 16th, 2021 at 6:04 am
@B. Chiclitz: chicken of the sea?
February 20th, 2021 at 9:11 pm
@BruceM (prev.):
Dolphins don’t want perm-boys with good taste, they want perm-boys that taste good!
February 23rd, 2021 at 3:13 am
Wow! I wasn’t aware Janet Aulisio did mass market paperback cover art. I mostly know her through roleplaying game art and sf magazine illustration. She had a pen and ink stippling technique like no one else’s.
February 23rd, 2021 at 3:23 am
This is on sale at Amazon through 11:59 PM Eastern Monday, if you want to read it without the embarrassing cover.
Other stuff by ACC, Poul Anderson, Brunner, etc.