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Good Show Sir Comments: I’m blaming it all on the shrooms.

Published 1982

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Tagged with: Cordwainer Smith • damsel • dude • Fanucci Editore • fungi • Italian • nip slip • Peter Jones • puffy shirt • ring around the collar • RUN! • space ships

12 Responses to “L’astronave d’oro”

1. THX 1139 Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 9:50 am

   Yes, it is distracting, isn’t it?

2. fred Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 12:48 pm

   SKATE!

3. A. R. Yngve Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 12:55 pm

   In sheer desperation, she grabbed a handful of toxic mushrooms to dull the painful nipple burns caused by future Italian fashion.

4. Bibliomancer Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 1:49 pm

   Apparently “L’astronave d’oro” is the Italian translation of “Golden Was the Ship- Oh, Oh, Oh”

5. Tor Mented Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 2:40 pm

   “Slipping Was the Nip — Uh, Oh, Oh.”

6. Bruce A Munro Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 5:34 pm

   Adventures on the planet of the Giants with Terrible Fashion Sense!

7. Tat Wood Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 6:34 pm

   See, the Bob Hoskins ‘Super Mario Brothers’ film could actually have been worse.

   (Never mind ‘Kirk Allen’, the person who picked this cover for that story ought to have visited Dr Lindner https://themagnet.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-the-jet-propelled )

8. Raoul Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 7:06 pm

   What’s with the dog cone? Did Luigi have an operation and the doctors don’t want him to chew his stitches out?

9. MelMc Says:
   February 9th, 2022 at 11:15 pm

   @Raoul: My guess is that he didn’t have an operation so much as he was stitched together Frankenstein monster style since no two parts belong to the same person. The head is slowly sliding off the shoulders, the hands are larger than the head and are attached to tiny T-Rex arms, and the legs are not attached at all and are running off in a different direction from the upper body.

10. Hammy Says:
    February 10th, 2022 at 3:16 am

    @MelMc (prev.):

    At least he’s got a way cool 50s greaser hairdo….

11. GSS ex-noob Says:
    February 10th, 2022 at 3:59 am

    Agreed with @GSS that it’s the shrooms.
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    Underilluminated the Planet Was, Oh Oh … What? squints

    I thought that was the tiniest possible Space Sheep, but nope, she’s got a nip shield. European covers are often at least racier to make up for the awfulness.

    So little bitty ships are shooting at people, or regular sized ships are shooting at giants? And what’s BEHIND HER, a robot ant or something?

    @MelMc: I think you’ve come up with the only idea that makes this even close to making sense. I’m not sure what’s in her hair/on her head, either.

    @Tat: the case for that has been somewhat overstated. Also, as the cliche goes, Lindner doesn’t seem to have been too tightly wrapped himself.

    The title story contains the line “Enter the bribes into the record, and then mark the record off the record,” which shows how well the author knew bureaucracy.

12. B. Chiclitz Says:
    February 10th, 2022 at 4:18 am

    This being an Italian edition and all, I guess the position of those hands is meant to evoke the Sistine ceiling.

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