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Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: I think the cover blurb just violated me.
Published 1977
(Average: 6.91 out of 10)
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JuanPaul Comments: I think the cover blurb just violated me.
Published 1977
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March 28th, 2022 at 10:07 am
Is that the planet Jupiter or a kiss emoji?
March 28th, 2022 at 10:57 am
THX 1139 #1: GSS!
March 28th, 2022 at 10:59 am
Cover design by Confuse-a-Cat Ltd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tsIxNci_dE
March 28th, 2022 at 12:31 pm
No wonder the cat’s confused. It’s never seen a planet go down on another planet before. (Don’t tell me that’s an innocent wink – Jupiter’s totally up for it.)
March 28th, 2022 at 1:14 pm
I think a BAEN Kzin evolution cover would be more orangely interesting.
March 28th, 2022 at 1:19 pm
It’s a cat-erpillar?
March 28th, 2022 at 1:52 pm
@Tor – Looks more like a Fe-line
March 28th, 2022 at 3:09 pm
@AR That’s one of my favorite Python skits!
“Is it…DEAD?”
March 28th, 2022 at 4:33 pm
Alarmingly, the cat-snake thing’s in the plot: the dominatrix villain uses it as a whip. It does not, as the protagonist briefly thinks, confer immortality on the victim. That woul be silly.
March 28th, 2022 at 5:16 pm
I think that cat’s got a bad case of the worms.
March 28th, 2022 at 11:04 pm
Another example of “just because everything on the cover in is the plot doesn’t make it a good cover”.
Like @Tat said, the “snat” is a plot point, and so is Jupiter, and Earth and a spaceship.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I used to occasionally see people at cons with snats that they’d made out of the head of a toy cat, with a tail added, wearing them like a feather boa.
@ARY: “Confuse-A-Cat” (and Be-WilderABeast and the rest) is one of the favorite Python sketches around here, and has been invoked many times about our moggies. The current one is so lacking in brainpower that we often think we need to phone “Un-Confuse-A-Cat”, since he’s so easily confused by common household items and happenings.
@fred: The people who wore snats are way ahead of you; some of them gave them Kzin ears. Niven’s reaction can only be described as “bemused”. Particularly when, to get the orange cheaply, the head was that of Garfield.
March 28th, 2022 at 11:35 pm
@BC. I am new here. Am I allowed to award a GSS to you?
I was trying to think up a pun for Kitty Ourobouros, but my brain has melted.
March 29th, 2022 at 2:49 am
Well, that’s _one_ way to declaw a cat.
I can’t recall: did the Jupiter bit advance the plot in any way, or was the Ludicrous Engineering just there as a way of saying “it’s the faaar future, dah dah dah dum…”
@GSS ex-noob: the idea of a lazy, greedy Kzin who doesn’t deal with issues by screaming and leaping because it’s too much effort amuses me. Sure, given what we see about Kzin society you’d think he wouldn’t survive, but we shouldn’t underestimate Garfield’s capacity for conniving assholery.
March 29th, 2022 at 3:54 am
“Moping.”
“Moping? In a way. Hmmm, moping – I must remember that!”
I see the title of the book and I think “out of time” which leads me to another Monty Python sketch: “That was never five minutes just now!”
March 29th, 2022 at 4:39 am
@JJYoyo—All modesty aside, I am never one to decline any GSS! So thanks, and may I offer you a GSS! on the grounds of your refined sense of humor? 😉
March 30th, 2022 at 12:11 am
@Bruce: I don’t think Jupiter had much to do with it, but I can’t recall, either.
Presumably the Garfield kzin were named “Speaker-to-Lasagna”.
A lot of snats — possibly the majority — with regular furry ears were made from Garfields, since they were easily and cheaply available.
@JJ: You’re not that new! Award away!
March 30th, 2022 at 6:22 am
How can that spaceship on the bottom go anywhere? Its engines are firing in opposite directions.
March 31st, 2022 at 2:20 am
Wow, oh wow. I’ve got a pile o’ old books by Larry N on my bookshelf and that one beats all.
Kittah: I has no paws to hitz at floatie ballz