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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: More like The Ass of Dyskornis. Amirite?!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in.
Published 1982
(Average: 6.09 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: More like The Ass of Dyskornis. Amirite?!
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Published 1982
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September 26th, 2022 at 1:16 pm
“More like The Ass of Dyskornis. Amirite?!”
Or The Gas of Dyskornis, considering the expression on the face of the poor soul in the bottom right.
September 26th, 2022 at 1:19 pm
@ Michael Toland
“I fart in your general direction!”
September 26th, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Is the bloke in the corner the new space sheep? Because I’m convinced he’s there to hide something.
September 26th, 2022 at 2:09 pm
You know they spent HOURS getting the scar makeup on that guy on the right to take his picture against a blue screen so they could edit him into the final composite.
September 26th, 2022 at 3:11 pm
@Michael T(#1):
Fred always got nervous when he had to face a scimitar-wielding opponent riding a giant wildcat, and the stress really kicked his IBS into high gear….
September 26th, 2022 at 3:13 pm
Not the furry experience Green-Shirt was looking for
September 26th, 2022 at 3:38 pm
Matthew Lilliard: Why do I always have to be Skeletor? The voice really hurts.
Leonard DiCaprio: This is MY mid-life crisis, dammit, you’re lucky to be getting any work.
September 26th, 2022 at 5:26 pm
Cat owner always says it’s a big sweetie, but when you try to pet it…
September 26th, 2022 at 5:38 pm
This is a series of books, and every single one of them has the “lots of stuff is happening, although it isn’t really clear exactly what” style of cover.
Why make a hyper-realistic cover and show a mish-mash of nothing?
September 26th, 2022 at 7:30 pm
I guess in this case I’m more of a “glass half gone” kind of guy…
September 26th, 2022 at 8:43 pm
Dyskornis mostly used their glass to watch kitty videos.
September 26th, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Isn’t the blurb redundant?
You look at the cover and see two guys with swords. One of them is riding a giant cat. Then the blurb says the same. Was that the only good thing they could pull from Ted’s review?
Besides the perspective fail, both visible faces are weird. How much gurning is the other one doing, that his diaper-clad ass is preferable?
@Michael: Between diaper-man and cat food breath, no wonder Green Shirt is gagging.
@Tat: Heh.
@Bruce: You REALLY need to keep a kitty that size entertained.
September 26th, 2022 at 10:53 pm
Sturgeon’s blurb feels like one of those universal captions we’ve been discussing. As long as you include the “giant cats,” you can say just about anything.
“Full of cotton candy and giant cats”
“Full of Zombies and giant cats”
“Full of Russian dictators and giant cats”
“Full of ball bearings and giant cats”
“Full of small cats and giant cats”
U.S.W
September 27th, 2022 at 12:26 am
I had fun channeling that title thru my inner Beavis and Butt-Head.
September 27th, 2022 at 1:34 am
“Full of legumes and giant cats”
“Full of metamorphic rock and giant cats”
“Full of chartered accountancy and giant cats”
“Full of trolley problems and giant cats”
September 27th, 2022 at 3:09 am
@ Ryan: Yeah, got a deja vous feeling… a May 4th kind of feeling:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=17859
Funny that I can find related authors/covers within minutes, but ask me where my car key is at this exact moment, and I’m not 100% sure…
September 27th, 2022 at 5:31 am
@Emster—You know what that cover needs, don’t you? A blurb from Sturgeon saying “Full of murderous primates and giant cats.”
September 27th, 2022 at 11:56 pm
@B. Chicklitz – I new it was missin’ something… seeing as they didn’t deem necessary to squeeze a coupla primates onto the cover, but had room for some ill-fitting pants…
September 28th, 2022 at 12:18 am
@BC: I’m always suspicious when there’s an ellipsis in the blurb. What else did Sturgeon have to say? Was it a long, biting paragraph? Saying “This book wishes it were entertaining and well-paced. Sadly, it’s junk. It’s full of swordplay and giant cats, all of which is ludicrous.”
I was reading and buying a LOT of SF when these books came out, and I have no memory of them whatsoever. I was on a bit of a budget, so perhaps 1982-xn was put off by the covers and bought something less…. this.
October 3rd, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Hey hands off me Jim Burns, I got not one but TWO of his books!
I really like his style, and let’s face it, compared with other items appearing on this (fabulous) site, this one is not at all half bad.
And why all the trousers-centric zings? For a SF cover (ones from Burns included) those people are positively overdressed.
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