Is this like Space Battleship Yamato but with the Taj Mahal instead? Why the gold paint? And where did the rest of the hull go? So many questions that nobody could possibly be bored enough to want to answer.
Randall HATES this cover and has snarked about it for 42 years. Apparently the artist didn’t read the book, so it’s got a romance novel cover although it’s late New Wave, all philosophical about mortality, the nature of mankind, etc.
I can’t figure out whose fingers are where.
@Tor: The Love Mosque seems to signal Arabic, so I’m thinking “ki-lands”
🎵 Kilands in the stream, that is where we are.🎵
@BC and @Tor: It might also say 2GU, which could be the nutritional supplement he’s touting.
Since most of the people in the book are immortal, I’m thinking it’s his age. With an arrow pointing to it so he doesn’t forget.
Or someone wrote 2(.)60 on it, and if that’s in USD, CAD, GBP, Euro, $Aus or $NZ, it’s too much. Hopefully it’s $HK. (34c American)
I thought for a moment that it was “Psland” with a dyslexic P. Sort of like when Adam Ant surfaced, it was with the D in his name reversed as kind of an art-school statement.
@GSSxn (prev.): I agree, $2.60 US/CAN/AU/NZ or 2 and 60 GBP is far too high a price for such as this.
My first impression of the floating mosque was that it was the Mortal Engines version of Kuala Lumpur. No idea what Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand are doing there.
@JJYoyo: That’s where I’ve seen them before! Maybe floating Kuala Lampur has an arena they’re singing at. Presumably a new cover would need to have Cooper and Gaga instead.
@JJYoyo, @GSS ex-noob: they’re in space, so perhaps rather than Mortal Engines it’s Cities in Flight (hi, James Blish!) and they’ve strapped some spindizzies to Kuala Lumpur.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:23 am
“Love, soft as an easy chair/ love fresh as the morning air”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(Love_Theme_from_A_Star_Is_Born)
Where the floating Mosque comes in I couldn’t tell you.
September 27th, 2023 at 1:07 pm
qslands?
September 27th, 2023 at 1:38 pm
@tor I came here to ask the same question. How do you pronounce that?
September 27th, 2023 at 2:01 pm
No matter how hard he blew or where he placed his fingers, he couldn’t get a tune out of her.
September 27th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
The constellation of Virgo Lost.
September 27th, 2023 at 2:54 pm
Is this like Space Battleship Yamato but with the Taj Mahal instead? Why the gold paint? And where did the rest of the hull go? So many questions that nobody could possibly be bored enough to want to answer.
September 27th, 2023 at 3:41 pm
@JuanPaul: It would be appropriate if it’s pronounced “kiss lands”
September 27th, 2023 at 4:49 pm
‘ware space-berg off the port bow!
@Francis Boyle: Or “Titanic” in space, which would make those two Rose and Jack. Only room for one on the space-pod!
September 27th, 2023 at 5:14 pm
@Cornelius: Thank you for that blast of laughter.
September 27th, 2023 at 9:32 pm
Under embiggerment, it appears he has the number “260” along with some sort of enigmatic signpole carved into his arm. What can this mean?
@Cornelius: GSS!
September 27th, 2023 at 10:22 pm
@BC: I think he works at McDonald’s and got a tattoo that says 2 GO.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:57 pm
Randall HATES this cover and has snarked about it for 42 years. Apparently the artist didn’t read the book, so it’s got a romance novel cover although it’s late New Wave, all philosophical about mortality, the nature of mankind, etc.
I can’t figure out whose fingers are where.
@Tor: The Love Mosque seems to signal Arabic, so I’m thinking “ki-lands”
🎵 Kilands in the stream, that is where we are.🎵
@BC and @Tor: It might also say 2GU, which could be the nutritional supplement he’s touting.
Since most of the people in the book are immortal, I’m thinking it’s his age. With an arrow pointing to it so he doesn’t forget.
Or someone wrote 2(.)60 on it, and if that’s in USD, CAD, GBP, Euro, $Aus or $NZ, it’s too much. Hopefully it’s $HK. (34c American)
GSS and LOL to @Cornelius, @FB and @Bruce.
September 28th, 2023 at 1:06 am
GSS to @Cornelius!
I thought for a moment that it was “Psland” with a dyslexic P. Sort of like when Adam Ant surfaced, it was with the D in his name reversed as kind of an art-school statement.
@GSSxn (prev.): I agree, $2.60 US/CAN/AU/NZ or 2 and 60 GBP is far too high a price for such as this.
September 28th, 2023 at 3:19 am
My first impression of the floating mosque was that it was the Mortal Engines version of Kuala Lumpur. No idea what Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand are doing there.
September 29th, 2023 at 1:23 am
@JJYoyo: That’s where I’ve seen them before! Maybe floating Kuala Lampur has an arena they’re singing at. Presumably a new cover would need to have Cooper and Gaga instead.
September 29th, 2023 at 5:23 am
@JJYoyo, @GSS ex-noob: they’re in space, so perhaps rather than Mortal Engines it’s Cities in Flight (hi, James Blish!) and they’ve strapped some spindizzies to Kuala Lumpur.
September 30th, 2023 at 9:37 pm
hmmmm….
Howl’s Moving Castle… in Spaaaaaaaace!
Little Mosque in the Air-y
October 1st, 2023 at 1:21 am
@Bruce: Frighteningly, that makes the most sense.
And look, there’s the floating islands below! Awww, they brought those with them in the spindizzy field.