Jun 02
Click for larger imageRick Deckard Comments: His Escher girlfriend appears to be both inside and outside the spaceship.
Published 1990
(Average: 5.25 out of 10)
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Rick Deckard Comments: His Escher girlfriend appears to be both inside and outside the spaceship.
Published 1990
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June 2nd, 2021 at 9:12 am
Low rent STTNG knock-offs I get but why the faux-Greek text and where the hell is the black hole it’s apparently being sucked into?
June 2nd, 2021 at 9:24 am
@Francis Boyle: I think that’s just the chair. Outside is your standard Ridiculously Crowded Asteroid Belt (as seen in Star Wars – which may have also influenced the “ascending into the heavens” look of the title)
Is that a radiation symbol sticker on sprawling dude’s wrist? (Look at the larger image).
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:01 am
Domestic bliss of the future: “Get up, put a light on, have a shave, mow the lawn, empty the recycling, just DO SOMETHING!”
June 2nd, 2021 at 1:16 pm
‘Thith ith what you get Oath for thwearing you would jutht thit on your ath in your maththage chair in thith God forthaken athteroid belt if you ever thtopped being a thpace thmuggler. Bored thilly.’
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:38 pm
As a special ops captain, he was entitled to a captain’s chair with wing mirrors.
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:51 pm
If ever a cover screamed “fast-paced,” “inventive” and”attention-holding,” it’s not thith one. Also, I wonder if the second “H” in “C. J. Cherryh” is pronounced?
June 2nd, 2021 at 4:32 pm
@B. Chiclitz: According to the old rec.arts.sf.written FAQ,
“C. J. Cherryh’s original last name was Cherry. The terminal H is
silent. The H was added because her first editor thought that Cherry
sounded too much like a romance writer. Her brother, artist David
Cherry, retains the original spelling.”
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:14 pm
I blinked and adjusted my glasses upon seeing this. Nope, not my eyes or the lenses, just font problems.
Of course he’s got a radiation sticker, what with the black hole so near and his girl phasing in and out. Schroedinger’s Bimbo.
I’m not sure I can handle the “fast-paced” action of a guy sulking in his oversize chair and the woman who’s had quite enough of that, thank you.
It’th thupid.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:54 pm
I have seen better Space-Captain’s-Chairs on covers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warrior%27s_Apprentice#/media/File:Warriorsapprentice.jpg
June 3rd, 2021 at 1:53 am
@Ryan: needs arm rests. (Miles clearly doesn’t know what to do with his arms).
June 3rd, 2021 at 7:10 am
@Bruce: I have always interpreted the cover as, “Miles sulking in his captain’s chair because he is dressed as a camp Nazi while everyone else gets to be fabulous.”
June 3rd, 2021 at 12:25 pm
The ‘girlfriend’ is actually a representation of an old woman who is his boss…
June 4th, 2021 at 3:07 am
@Ryan: Bujold refers to this cover as the one with “Taura’s tactical nightie”.
And if you know Taura, you know she doesn’t look like that at all — she was create by a Dr. Moreau kinda guy.
As for this book, I’m thinking about @fred’s lisp idea. Maybe the title’s really “A Matter of Oafs”. Exhibit A: chair dude.
June 8th, 2021 at 11:33 am
OK, you’re really going to hate me for this one… here goes:
Squatty Potty
Squatty Potty
The best poop of your life…
April 3rd, 2022 at 3:29 am
Christopher…. Walken…. in…. Spaaaaaaace!
Phoebe Cates is giving him laser “googley eyes”