Sep 05
Good Show Sir Art Direction: “It’s called ‘Starship’ so paint me a butt-naked archer.”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
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Good Show Sir Art Direction: “It’s called ‘Starship’ so paint me a butt-naked archer.”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
(Average: 5.42 out of 10, rated)Loading...
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September 5th, 2023 at 11:03 am
Spoiler Alert: the US title and the cover give away about 2/3 of the plot.
September 5th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
@Tat Wood
There are stories about Aldiss being absolutely furious over that.
September 5th, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Alternative Title: For the World Is Yellow and I Have Touched the Sky
September 5th, 2023 at 3:37 pm
♪ We built this city on sausage rolls. ♪
September 5th, 2023 at 5:23 pm
He should be wearing a blue loincloth.
September 5th, 2023 at 10:52 pm
I know they had limited resources, but were they that nekkid?
@Tat: Thankfully, the US title eventually reverted to the original one, which is what I read it under, so I wasn’t spoiled.
@FB: GSS!
I was wondering “has this copy faded and it wasn’t so yellow at first?” And… a bit, but not much. It was a smidge more green in the background foliage, but still only chartreuse at best.
September 6th, 2023 at 1:10 am
(Guy shot with arrow) “Argh! Our efforts to walk all sneaky-like proved futile!”
@Tat Wood: admittedly, when I first saw this cover I thought they had crashed on an actual planet and the starship was buried underground. I mean, that’s an awfully large room.
(I hope I haven’t distressed anyone by further spoilering a 54 year old SF novel.)
September 6th, 2023 at 8:03 am
Impressive how he can aim and shoot that bow with only a stump for a right arm.
September 7th, 2023 at 2:54 am
♪ There’s a Starmaaaaan lurking in the plants
Perhaps he’s just a local ’cause he isn’t wearing pants ♪
September 9th, 2023 at 12:36 pm
🎵Let me tell ya a story ‘bout a guy named Roy
A poor astronaut, bow and arrow got him by
And then one day he was shootin’ at two dudes
When up from the ground sprang a sprocket or two
Machinery that is
Interstellar
Amazes the feller 🎵
It’s … the Generation-ship Hillbillies!
September 10th, 2023 at 1:29 am
@JJ: Yee-haw! That there’s one to sing around the cee-ment pond.
September 10th, 2023 at 11:06 pm
And then they all moved (very slowly) to Coruscant.
September 13th, 2023 at 2:50 am
@Bruce A M:
🎶….Ecumen….
….opolis….🎶
The Trantor Dome-billies!
September 13th, 2023 at 8:48 am
@JJYoyo: with Hari Seldon as their uptight intellectual neighbor, whose studies are always being interrupted by the Dome-billies latest wacky hijinks.
(GSS for your musical stylings.)