May 30
Good Show Sir comments: The Defiant Agents — still want their 10%
Published 1972
(Average: 5.72 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: The Defiant Agents — still want their 10%
Published 1972
(Average: 5.72 out of 10)Loading...
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May 30th, 2023 at 9:07 am
“It slices! It dices! The new, improved Norton-Knife(tm) is sharp enough to cut Genghis Khan in half! 8 astronauts out of 10 recommend the Norton-Knife(tm).”
May 30th, 2023 at 1:04 pm
The defiant Howard Moon.
May 30th, 2023 at 1:24 pm
Armpit hair is hard to draw.
May 30th, 2023 at 1:48 pm
@fred
To be honest, I thought he was demonstrating that his “and that’s not all!” knife was also sharp enough to shave his pits…
May 30th, 2023 at 1:57 pm
I Khan half cheezburger?
May 30th, 2023 at 3:19 pm
We washed one half of Charles Bronson in Head and Shoulders, the other in a regular shampoo.
And then Bruce Boxleitner photobombed the advert.
May 30th, 2023 at 4:54 pm
@GSS, all.
“My Aztec mum wants me to go into her families human sacrifice business, my Mongol pirate dad wants me to join him in the stabbing people and taking their stuff industry, but what I really want is to be an astronaut.”
May 30th, 2023 at 9:09 pm
The story is 224 pages long,
the words are in English,
and the characters have names.
May 30th, 2023 at 9:11 pm
PS Good use of the “weird pecs” tag, Wiz.
May 30th, 2023 at 9:22 pm
@JuanPaul: only a half Moon, sir; he’s been somehow grafted onto Naboo.
May 30th, 2023 at 10:33 pm
Just a guess, but the scene portrayed on the dagger hilt is probably 1000% better than this cover.
May 31st, 2023 at 12:49 am
OK, it’s at least related to the book: there are Apaches and Mongols on another planet. But *everyone* had plenty of pre-industrial weapons, and it is goofy-looking.
Still, could be worse… could be the completely inappropriate cover from GSS’ “favorite” publisher! Or the ones from Ace, using *that* font.
@fred: It does look to be a pretty cool dragon.
May 31st, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Typical I miss all the good (bad) ones. GSS everyone.
June 1st, 2023 at 2:10 am
@BC: Is that the secret GSS phrase/gentle way of saying DNF? Or the short version of “Look, I struggled to meet the 10,000 word count on a very dry fourth year uni paper so I am definitely not qualified to judge this writing style/genre, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter so instead of toughing it out for the sake of reading vintage SF from a renowned writer, I skipped to the last chapter which confirmed that approximately 217 pages of this story were completely unnecessary.”
June 1st, 2023 at 8:11 pm
@Emster—It was just a parody of the very low energy affect of the actual blurb, I guess not too skillfully done.
June 1st, 2023 at 10:35 pm
@BC: Shorter blurb:
“People do things, and stuff blows up.”
June 2nd, 2023 at 12:27 pm
@B.Chiclitz: On the contrary, quite skilfully done. I was going to say GSS! But I was so deflated I just …ran out of energy or lost the will to write it…..
June 2nd, 2023 at 11:28 pm
@BC: yes, very skillfully done and I did not catch it because my nerd-coloured glasses are tinted a little differently… (also I’m a little jaded as I tried 2 other Norton classics recently, could not get past 1st chapter, kind of feel like a traitor for not trying hard enough…)