Nov 30
Good Show Sir comments: Those sirens are uglier than I imagined.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1982
(Average: 7.67 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: Those sirens are uglier than I imagined.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1982
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November 30th, 2022 at 11:09 am
Popeye doesn’t need a battleship to fight the Sea Hag.
November 30th, 2022 at 1:00 pm
That’s no hag and the battleship is doomed.
November 30th, 2022 at 2:28 pm
You kids get off my lake!
November 30th, 2022 at 3:42 pm
That’s apparently an aircraft-carrier made of wood. No wonder Iggle Piggle jumped ship.
And as far as I can see, the big ship’s called ‘Rancid’. Not a propitious name.
November 30th, 2022 at 4:23 pm
New challenge: Name three ways you can tell that this book was NOT published by Baen.
November 30th, 2022 at 4:44 pm
No bosomy babe in the life raft.
Lack of fire.
Not enough moons.
November 30th, 2022 at 5:15 pm
@Ryan
No fifty shades of orange
No cleavage
No cat people
Also, no orange cat people with cleavage
November 30th, 2022 at 5:29 pm
Carl Lungren painted a wonderful sea and sky but a horrible ship and seahag. I am not feeling the excitement of whatever plot there is and certainly not seeing a fire anywhere. I also swear I read the first book of this series and it was a dud. I’ll research it.
November 30th, 2022 at 6:34 pm
@Ryan: err… the word TIMESCAPE at the top?
(And I hope that’s not a Baen-style author portrait: https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=944 https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=5012).
November 30th, 2022 at 6:51 pm
@Ryan: No boobs, no automatic/laser weapons, the title isn’t in a stupid font (even if Timescape is). Also no ‘splosions.
Why is a wooden ship looking for the nearest fire? That’s counterproductive. And since the ship’s wood and the place has a sea hag, what’s with the excess jumble of conning towers and superstuctures, apparently also wooden, and the antennae? Must be picking up magick signals, not radio/radar waves.
@Tat: Can’t be an aircraft carrier. Look how small the deck is. You couldn’t land anything bigger than a hang glider there. Just a wooden warship.
Monkeys. All those towers would need monkeys to climb them. Maybe Hag is yelling “you damn dirty apes!”
@Tracy: I have a vague memory of the same scenario.
December 1st, 2022 at 1:06 am
@Ryan
No needlessly “flame”-boyant fonts
No telltale Baen crest just off to the left of the orange cat people with cleavage
No American speed boat with MacGyvered cannon buzzing around that ship as a distraction tactic that will win the battle! (GSS to whomever can tell me the BAEN book/series/author I’m not so subtly referring to)
December 1st, 2022 at 4:38 am
@Tat Wood: the aircraft carrier made of wood had its problems, but the aircraft carrier made of bricks was no improvement.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:56 pm
@Emster: Half of them?
As the ship is wood, the raft fills the speedboat role. It’s a low-tech imitation.
The person on the raft might be a naked woman; we’d definitely able to tell on t’other.
December 2nd, 2022 at 1:15 am
T’was a nod to Eric Flint’s Grantville series – I believe they were pimping the motorboats to assist their allies in “1633”. Kinda liked the Grantville segments but not particularly interested in detailed 17th century Euro socio/eco/political history, subsequently dumped them for alien worlds and spaceships – pew pew pew!
December 2nd, 2022 at 1:35 am
@GSS ex-noob (10): Hot air balloons are aircraft.
December 2nd, 2022 at 5:27 am
@Tat: Point taken. Although, again, possibly not the safest on a giant pile of wood. (Which is possibly being sailed by monkeys.)
@Emster: According to actual Germans, neither the history (before 1632) nor even the geography is close to correct.
Since budget, travel, and locations are no problem in a book series, you’d think a couple topographical maps of the area and some reference books would have done the trick even before the days of Google/Wiki. We had paper maps, libraries, and encyclopedias back then.
Looks like his personal web site is already shut down and he’s only been dead 5 months! I guess they’ve made sure his work can’t be
editedrewritten like he did to the classic authors in the reprint editions he worked on.If this cover had had the spaceship crest, it would have been just over one of the mountains, I bet. Or possibly where the artist’s signature is. Whichever would be more ridiculous.
December 3rd, 2022 at 11:13 am
This is a hard one to riff on. I respect the artist for going resolutely bonkers and not caring about the genre’s usual crowd-pleasing tropes… and the text and fonts do not embarrass themselves.
Pass.