May 20
Ryan Comments: Even with dogged persistence, I could not get this cover to photograph well, as it was so very shiny.
Check out the wraparound cover.
Published 2001
Ryan Comments: Even with dogged persistence, I could not get this cover to photograph well, as it was so very shiny.
Check out the wraparound cover.
Published 2001
May 20th, 2021 at 9:46 am
I thought for a moment she only had one leg. Then realised – d’oh,of course! She was sitting, facing backwards, on the dog and hastily stood up as the artist snapped the photo for the reference picture.
That must be the reason, yes?
May 20th, 2021 at 10:00 am
I hope she never finds herself in a situation where she has to get on the ground quickly because there has to be a dozen ways she could do herself an injury.
May 20th, 2021 at 10:01 am
Muffet! You didn’t die!
May 20th, 2021 at 12:38 pm
Is it a genuine fashion that women wear chopsticks in their hair? We last saw that on “Nights of Sin.”
And I give up — someone please explain what is going on in the lower left.
May 20th, 2021 at 1:04 pm
Wrap around cover explains all.
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/e/e4/DGGDPR2001.jpg
May 20th, 2021 at 1:17 pm
@Dr Bob I’m still not sure that’s right. I could 3 dog heads & 2 dog bodies (1 apparently split in half with bits replaced by robotics?), 1 human head and torso and 9, maybe 10 legs. I’m not sure this isn’t some sort of mad-scientist makes dog-dog-dog-girl monster situation.
@fred “Wrap around cover explains all.”
No, no. It just makes it more confusing.
May 20th, 2021 at 1:38 pm
“This time Timmy is staying down that well: I have the dog restrained and I’ll shoot the boy if he manages to climb out on his own.”
May 20th, 2021 at 1:45 pm
@griz It’s got dogs in it. What else do you need to know?
May 20th, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Not at all sure what she plans on hitting with that gun, what with the scope two-thirds of the way down the stock and the barrel curved to the right; she obviously picked it up at an amusement park shooting gallery. Maybe it’s just a stick for those good dogs to fetch!
May 20th, 2021 at 3:16 pm
I’m going to name my next dog “Persistence.”
@Max B—GSS!
May 20th, 2021 at 3:54 pm
So is she resting her hand on a circular portrait of a fish, or are she and her dogs currently in a submarine?
May 20th, 2021 at 5:03 pm
@Ryan: maybe she’s visiting a discount aquarium.
(That skeletal fish shouldn’t be floating – zombie fish?)
May 20th, 2021 at 5:20 pm
The elevator pitch was that the book was ‘To Ride Pegasus’ meets ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’. The artist heard this and illustrated a rather different book.
May 20th, 2021 at 11:01 pm
I apologize for my remark on the wrap around. I now realize one cannot see enough to possibly post in the vein of, let’s say, ‘What a totally bitchin’ cover.’, without being totally accurate about the totally thing. So, 99% explained.*
*98% if you want an explanation on the coelacanth.**
**97% on whatever the black Lab is carrying in its’ mouth.
May 21st, 2021 at 12:18 am
The answer to the question, “What if CHOMPS had all its jokes taken out?”
May 21st, 2021 at 3:55 am
I can only presume this is as low-rated as it is because no one can see the full horror because of the shiny.
@Griz: What you said.
May 24th, 2021 at 8:15 pm
A terrifying look into the future when radiation and runaway pollution have created mutant humans with tiny heads, fighting for survival and adequately-sized bike helmets.