Apr 27
Good Show Sir comments: What is the title of this book? Vote below in the comments.
A. The Dark Dimensions
B. The Rim Gods
C. Adventures on the Rim of Space and the Edge of Time
D. All of the above
E. Other
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1978
(Average: 5.67 out of 10)
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April 27th, 2023 at 7:50 am
“And Rimgod Spoke: I shall Smite with Great Fury those who tell the Lord to put on some Pants, and all those who Make Light of the Divine genitals, and those who Laugh Inappropriately, and They shall know I am the Lord. So Sayeth the RimGod.”
(Book of Grimes, Verse 46)
April 27th, 2023 at 9:19 am
Yeah, I keep getting static shocks of my vacuum cleaner too.
Don’t normally do the vacuuming in the nude though(possibly for that very reason).
April 27th, 2023 at 10:40 am
God doesn’t need a starship, God needs pants.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:14 pm
So is he sitting on those clouds … or producing them?
April 27th, 2023 at 2:12 pm
I wonder he if he can help with my chipmunk problem
April 27th, 2023 at 2:32 pm
Why it’s important to have the charger for your vibrator properly earthed.
April 27th, 2023 at 6:22 pm
This artist can definitely draw feet.
Also, Coy Clouds (TM).
April 27th, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Their name was going to be left off the middle school battle of the bands promo poster, so last minute they changed the J to G and the B to D. With that, the Principal okayed use of the school photocopier…
@Ryan – I agree, Rowena gets an A+ for feet. No matter what wild storyline she was illustrating, her artwork was fantastic (and sometimes better than they deserved…)
April 27th, 2023 at 7:38 pm
The way minds ‘works’. Sad. The first word I saw was “commode” (instead of “commodore”). I just can’t un-see that the Rimgod squirming very uncomfortably on a cloud toilet (a cloud with a very hard surface – go figure).
April 27th, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Ths cover was originally painted for Philip Jose Farmer’s unauthorised Grizzly Adams sequel.
April 27th, 2023 at 9:13 pm
It took a Deity to rid Pennsylvania of the spotted lanternfly scourge!
April 27th, 2023 at 9:58 pm
@JJYoyo: GSS!
I was wondering what the spaceship (?) did that required smiting from the Rim God Beavis and Butthead heh-heh Looking under the cape, as @Bruce postulated?
April 27th, 2023 at 10:57 pm
GSS, @Tat Wood.
@JJYoyo. GSS. That _is_ a pretty buggy-looking design.
April 28th, 2023 at 12:59 am
@JJYoyo: I see the resemblance now.
April 28th, 2023 at 7:21 am
GSS all around! Respectfully have to disagree about the feet, though, especially the right foot which tapers into something resembling those worms that live at 30,000 feet below sea level. Nice, if a bit weird, pecs however. And high marks for drapery, hair/beard combo.
April 28th, 2023 at 5:15 pm
What kind of god throws on a shower curtain but can’t even be assed (I made a pun, hee hee) to wrap his privates?
April 29th, 2023 at 2:53 am
@Tracy: Maybe he just dashed out of the shower to zap the lanternfly ship?
April 29th, 2023 at 5:02 am
Well, it’s Ace, so it’s probably two separate novellas packaged as a single paperback, the third in a series of such minibus productions from that author’s work.
April 29th, 2023 at 12:23 pm
Respect to the artist – everything is done with skill and an obvious sense of humor.
The joke’s on the title – or should I say the many, MANY titles?
April 29th, 2023 at 5:37 pm
@Tracy, A Greek one.
Gods are above shame – that’s for Priests.
April 29th, 2023 at 10:11 pm
@Dave: Yes, that’s obvious if you can wade through the verbiage.
Still, they could have just said “The Dark Dimensions & The Rim Gods” and decluttered the cover a bit.
And why didn’t the Dark Dimensions get a look-in on the cover either? Unless the Rim Gods live in the Dark Dimensions.
It really is excellent drapery work.
April 29th, 2023 at 11:45 pm
GSS ex-noob@: they couldn’t do an illustration for the Dark Dimensions because it’s too dark to see anything.
April 30th, 2023 at 7:18 pm
There’s no point complaining about no pants. Or is he not that kind of “rim” god?
May 1st, 2023 at 2:36 am
@Bruce: Of course! How silly of me. I guess that’s why it got first billing, to make up for no illo.
The bit behind Zeus In Spaaace looks to be shading off into darkness, so perhaps the DD is just off-screen.
(Contrary to the blurb, there isn’t any rim of space since the Big Bang, and the end of time is still trillions of years away, without much to look at.)
May 1st, 2023 at 2:47 am
Possibly it has a rim (or at least an surface) in the fourth dimension? I believe in Lovecraftian settings there’s usually something scratching at it. (Not starkers Greek deities, though.)
May 1st, 2023 at 2:56 am
Agreed. If it were something with tentacles coming out of a black dimension beyond (maybe the bits behind the titles?) then it would fit.
Not this guy, though, he’s human-shaped and hanging out in regular space zapping passing ships.
I do hope the DD isn’t completely without light, or it’s a dull book.
Captain’s Log: “Day 6 in the DD. Still pitch black. Crew is getting bored and antsy. Heated argument over a checkers game today. I think the engineer is brewing toilet wine.”