Jan 17
Good Show Sir comments: Voyage to the Bottom of the Slush Pile
Published 1956
(Average: 8.09 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: Voyage to the Bottom of the Slush Pile
Published 1956
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January 17th, 2023 at 12:19 pm
So presumably he’s the Dom and the 21st century Sub is on the end of that line he’s pulling in?
January 17th, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Half submarine, half Batmobile. 21st century schizoid sub.
January 17th, 2023 at 2:56 pm
Amazingly the first hard cover edition of Dune didn’t have the blurb “By the writer of ’21st Century Sub’ ” on the front cover.
January 17th, 2023 at 5:12 pm
One of the more obscure songs on the King Crimson album “Waiting in Neptune’s lobby”.
January 17th, 2023 at 6:20 pm
@Max Bathroom: GSS! The erotic adventures of a man and his sub?
Title: oops! I said the boring part loud, and the cool bit quiet.
Definitely a 1950s sub: just look at those tail fins.
January 17th, 2023 at 7:32 pm
I agree with the tags: Dude isn’t in a wetsuit and flippers, he’s an actual frogman.
Why do his hands have their own bubble helmets? Why is the sub both underwater and yet clearly visible?
I was trying to figure out who to award a GSS to, and quickly realized: everyone!
@Max: Is this what they mean by “Voyage to the ‘Bottom’ of the Sea”?*
@Bruce: Why they changed a mildly interesting title to a boring one that sounds like a non-fiction report by the Navy is puzzling.
*The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve. So is the age of GSS’ers.
January 17th, 2023 at 7:45 pm
@GSS ex-noob: “Oh wait, he should be wearing gloves, shouldn’t he? Eh, I’ll just do a quick fix: those beers are calling.”
It was originally serialized as “Under Pressure”, which I think is still better than “21st Century Sub”
(He’s also got a separate bubble – with no apparent connection to an oxygen system – over his lower face. Maybe it filters CO2 out and oxygen in the seawater in through the power of SCIENCE.)
January 18th, 2023 at 4:17 am
Just keep repeating the litany against sea farers
January 18th, 2023 at 7:48 am
Hallelujah to starting the new year with an indisputable 10!
In a forum I frequent we were discussing AI taking the illustration jobs from human artists. I pointed out that because of covers like this one, it would actually be an improvement. OTOH, the scuba diver’s ridiculously undersized head — which apparently is on backwards — could never be recreated by any mere AI.
And is that fancy sub coming or going? I think it’s going because of the fin and where the radar is pointing, but there seems to be a rudder on that end.
January 18th, 2023 at 5:35 pm
Bruce @5: And then published (in the UK at least) as The Dragon in the Sea. I remember it as a really first-class techno-thriller. But the cover is a travesty.
January 18th, 2023 at 7:49 pm
What is that wrought-iron contraption in his right hand? A traffic-light?
And is it just me or does the artist’s signature look like ‘Hot Snooman’?
January 19th, 2023 at 12:52 pm
@Tat Wood
I think what he’s holding in his right hand looks rather like some sort of flogger, which ties in with my D/s theory about the book’s title…
January 19th, 2023 at 4:09 pm
Batteries not included.
January 19th, 2023 at 10:13 pm
@Bruce: That title is also a classic rock song (which I heard the day after this was posted).
@Tat: “Hot Snooman” sounds like something the Swedish Chef would say.
@Max: I really think the D/s angle is correct. Who’s to say if that’s a wetsuit or simply fetish wear?
January 20th, 2023 at 1:46 am
Dear Avon Publishers,
Your cover is a bit of a ding-dong.
(Okay, I’m a bit rusty on the quips, gimme a couple more covers and I should be back to my nerdy sarcastic self)
January 20th, 2023 at 2:24 am
@Daard23: with even more obscure lyrics:
Frog foot, iron sub
Goodshowsurgeons spot the flub
Snark n sarcasm, that’s the rub
21st century schizoid triphibian batmobile thing. Or something.
Fun fact: Elton John nearly provided vocals on *In the Wake of Poseidon*
January 20th, 2023 at 4:14 am
Wait a mo’…
How’s fish-guy stabbing what looks like a periscope he’s looking into while standing on a white surface that kinda appears to be a dock of some sort?
The 21st Century Sub (not to be confused with 20th Century Fox) is *over there*, Mr. I-Don’t-Have-A-Haddock-I-AM-A-Haddock…..
January 20th, 2023 at 10:37 am
@GSS
Adds a whole new twist on the idea of “topping from the bottom”, doesn’t it?
January 20th, 2023 at 11:09 pm
21ST CENTURY SUB
Kevin McCarthy’s long-awaited, shocking tell-all about working under Trump