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Master of the Stars

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Master of the Stars: An M.S. degree from Starfleet AcademyClick for larger image

Ryan Comments: Cirque du Soleil…in SPAAAACE.

Published 1976

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 6.50 out of 10)
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12 Responses to “Master of the Stars”

  1. THX 1139 Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 10:49 am

    Do you mean to tell me you could have commented on this cover at any time? No, only when it was funny.

  2. A. R. Yngve Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 11:08 am

    “Gently now… there! I managed to set my feet on the Giant Floating Head!”

  3. Francis Boyle Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 12:03 pm

    If I didn’t know better I would assume that Kelly Freas was a blob of red material of indeterminate size and form. Then again, I don’t actually know that Mr Freas wasn’t extra-terrestrial shapeshifter and his paintings done from experience.

  4. fred Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    WOW!!! A Condiment King vs STARRO book. That’s what you get when you mess with the hot sauce, baby.

  5. THX 1139 Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    And to think in 1976 Mr Hoskins had just started his adult literacy course.

  6. Hammy Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    Geez, I hate it when the barber gets my crew-cut all asymmetrical….

  7. Bibliomancer Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    John the Baptist vibes

  8. Bruce A Munro Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    When space-coral attacks!

    “OK, I really need, like, another hundred feet of rope here.”

    Not quite sure how to describe the look. Edgy renaissance pirate with just a touch of Ming the Merciless?

    Happy Thanksgiving, fellow non-indigenous USicans!

  9. fred Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    Original art sold in 2011. A copy of the book was included.

    https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/frank-kelly-freas-american-1922-2005-master-of-the-stars-paperback-covermixed-media-on-board165-x-12/a/5059-78651.s

  10. Tat Wood Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    John Robb did something other than be a talkiing head on ”I Heart’ documentaries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robb_(musician)

    @THX: don’t worry about the foreigners – I got the ‘On the Moov’ reference.

  11. Bruce A Munro Says:
    November 25th, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    @fred: whotta deal!

    Well, now we can see more clearly that he’s hanging from a … whatsit?

    “The new building’s architecture was _so_ innovative, that the residents found lowering themselves from floor to floor with rope preferable to using the stairs.”

    Modern architects, man. If they could duplicate Lovecraft’s mind-warping non-Euclidean architecture, they’d do so in a heartbeat.

  12. GSS ex-noob Says:
    November 26th, 2021 at 1:30 am

    Master of the Stars… Circus act…

    It’s “Circus of the Stars”!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-mlGGUbcy4&list=PL6rj1b7vga5X1YFkFOdn1RUnmSSNek_ag

    Is a Master of the Stars outranked by a PhD of the Stars?

    @Francis: if Kelly was, he was a really good shapeshifter. I never saw him look like anything other than a human male at any time.

    @fred: Good call on Starro. Maybe he’s the Master of the Stars?

    I now go off to consume mass quantities of food, largely carbs.

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