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Emster comments: Galactic Zoo Manager: The horned owlbear has escaped again. Good luck catching it, it’s got eyes in the back of its head…
Published 1971
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Emster comments: Galactic Zoo Manager: The horned owlbear has escaped again. Good luck catching it, it’s got eyes in the back of its head…
Published 1971
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March 20th, 2023 at 11:10 am
Did they just throw eyes at this thing to see where they’d stick?
March 20th, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Now I wonder if Gary Gygax ever read that collection?
March 20th, 2023 at 12:53 pm
Don’t feed Grogu after midnight.
March 20th, 2023 at 3:06 pm
I do hope Berkley sent a copy of this edition to Anthony Burgess and DM Thomas.
March 20th, 2023 at 3:26 pm
On this week’s episode of “Pigs in Space”…
March 20th, 2023 at 4:21 pm
The best of the best of the best sci Fi stories of the year…it’s the best!
March 20th, 2023 at 5:23 pm
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, face or meaning where there is none.
March 20th, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Kitty photobombed it on the bottom with her paw!
March 20th, 2023 at 8:45 pm
@Tor M—We used to call that the “Face in the Tree” phenomenon around here. Haven’t seen many lately, tho. 😉
March 20th, 2023 at 10:40 pm
I don’t remember 1969 to have been so cutesy and pink but then I was a bit young for all the best drugs.
March 21st, 2023 at 3:08 am
Best SF:1969 –maybe.
Best Cover:1969 — nope.
@fred, Bruce, JP: GSS!
@Tracy: Kitty knows that thing ain’t right; she’s trying to gut it.
@FB: In girls’ products, hot pink, that purple, and the orange of the paw, plus cutesiness were right on target. Maybe since UKLG was in, they thought they should use it all?
(Narrator: They had gotten a bad batch of the supposedly-best drugs before they thought that.)
March 21st, 2023 at 9:48 am
This isn’t an unusual image! When those TikTokers and SnapChatters overdo the face filters, they end up looking just like that.
March 21st, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Would not be surprised if the majority of the GSS gang is Pareidolic, as we gravitate to the messiest of book covers. We’re in good company with da Vinci and Shakespeare. Got a couple of wall plugs staring at me right now…
March 21st, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Now that you mention it, I’m pretty sure I see the famous portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud of Louis XIV in that creature’s nose.
March 22nd, 2023 at 3:02 pm
@BC: you’ve got a case of Advanced Pareidolia! (I’m not sure if that’s a thing, but in my mind, it’s a lot of fun). With a little squinting and an overly vivid imagination, I can see it too – not the fleur de lis tho, that’s super advanced…
March 22nd, 2023 at 6:07 pm
@Emster—yes, it’s equal parts squinting and overly vivid imagination. How’s those wall plugs today?
March 22nd, 2023 at 7:42 pm
Just looked over my shoulder and… those jerks are still staring at me
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:40 pm
@Emster—Those wall plugs are really creepy. Like the disembodied face of an old
Mr. Machine toy.
March 23rd, 2023 at 9:55 pm
@Emster: It’s the fact that they’re always silently screaming as they stare that gets me. There’s a whole row of them next to me.