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Good Show Sir Comments: “High five, gnarly monster!”
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Published 1985
(Average: 5.50 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: “High five, gnarly monster!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1985
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March 21st, 2024 at 2:49 pm
“We want a refund on this apple!”
March 21st, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Adam – check!
Eve – check!
Serpent – check!
Apple – check!
Uh, goat….?
(It’s Baen, so I’m gonna to wait for GSSxn to weigh in…)
March 21st, 2024 at 3:59 pm
As far as origin stories go, Johnny Appleseed could have done a lot worse.
March 21st, 2024 at 4:27 pm
It looks like the novelisation this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uix3tbov65o ought to have had.
March 21st, 2024 at 5:31 pm
You’re the one who wanted a dragon, so YOU feed it.
March 21st, 2024 at 5:49 pm
And the sheep. . .is not impressed.
March 21st, 2024 at 9:52 pm
His torso is so non-dimensional that I’m assuming he is wearing one of those t-shirts with the abs and pecs drawn on.
March 21st, 2024 at 11:16 pm
This is another time I regret we don’t have a “weird abs” tag. @MelMc may have it right.
The goat is Not Amused and staying well out of it.
How do those people carry anything but their knives? Obviously they don’t. Damsel could put small objects into her halter top, but neither of them has pockets or a centimeter to spare in the trousers. Or booties. The girl is his teen daughter (he was apparently a teen dad), but nothing ick happens, apparently. She’s inherited his staring eyes, awww. But someone ought to have a bag to tote their hair products and grooming supplies. Daughter should be carrying a cute matching purse with some cream for their chafing.
Why is he offering a partly-eaten apple to the Chinese tree dragon, which grows its own apples?
I read the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads and the consensus is “Meh”. This is apparently an early Morrow novel, not up to his later stuff like Towing Jehovah. Presumably why he had to go with this publisher.
However, it seems to be way better than the film @Tat linked to. This book has never appeared in a list of “World’s Worst”, unlike that movie. They claim that movie opened in the US, when I was a person with a modicum of spending money and a driver’s license (and boyfriends with cars, who I went to many movies with), but I certainly don’t remember it; probably the ads/trailers put me off! It might have done better with a poster like this. Or a plot like this.
@Emster: The goat is probably there to be another symbol of Satan. But the rest of the cover makes it fade into the background. Because at BAEN!cleavagebadfontsclashingcolors ugly, cluttered design trumps* everything.
Everyone will be unsurprised that this is easily the worst cover for this book shown on ISFDB.
*pun very much intended
March 22nd, 2024 at 1:12 am
@Tat 4 – Joss Fuckin’ Ackland. The man, the myth, the legend. You can also play spot the TV ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ actors from your link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2YKcU5rfm0
March 28th, 2024 at 9:51 pm
Note the review quote:
“A literary cruise missile.”
So it’s like a book, but it flies below the radar? So people won’t notice it?
Am I reading the awkward, sophomoric metaphor correctly?
March 28th, 2024 at 9:57 pm
Not many people knew about Carl Sagan’s weed smoking habit.
Now at last, the truth about Carl’s trips can be told, in James Morrow’s startling book BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF FAR-OUT VISIONS
March 29th, 2024 at 4:21 am
Good to be back — wasn’t sure I could last through weeks of Error Establishing A Database Connection again.
@ARY: I missed that quote. Does it also imply that people won’t notice it till it blows up and kills them?
No matter how you look at it, that metaphor is bad news.
March 29th, 2024 at 6:48 am
The adventures of Carlsagan the Barbarian? Book I, Carlsagan and the Dragons of Eden…
@GSS ex-noob: The most charitable interpretation I can put on it is “prepare to be unexpectedly blown away.”
March 29th, 2024 at 4:04 pm
@ARY, ex-Noob: this being a BAEN book, maybe it’s like a Cruise Missile in that there are hundrends of women camped outside in protest This cover looks like one of their banners https://phm.org.uk/events_new/women-for-peace-banners-from-greenham-common/ https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-women-who-took-on-the-british-governments-nuclear-programme
March 30th, 2024 at 12:35 am
@Bruce: That is indeed a generous reading. And he does look a lot like Sagan, if you painted weird pecs and abs on Carl. He’s taking on the Demon Haunted World.
@Tat: But their banners weren’t quite so… so much. And they’re sensibly dressed, which you’d never find on one of this publisher’s books. Nor anti-weaponry anyone.
Also, the blurb regarding the author’s previous book has me ??? If it was “the best SF novel in the past 10 years”, how come I (going to cons at the end of that time, and at least one Worldcon in) never heard of it before this?
March 30th, 2024 at 1:10 am
Asterisk to above: I mean, looking over this year’s Hugo finalists, I have met and eaten or drunk with at least 7 of them, and at least another 4-5 are close online pals, including one who declined. One bought me a Coke, one bought me some really good French fries. I’ve seen several others at cons, of course.
All of which post-dated that book, however I knew some award winners who were a Big Deal right about then; funny lady name of C. Willis, dude referred to as GRRM, whom I also ate and drank with back in the day and see now and again at cons. George and I had a drink to an absent friend of ours last I saw him. (He, of course, was buying, because HBO gave him what he refers to as “stupid money”.)
Luckily Schmidt survived working with this publisher and went on to write stuff that’s good, well-known, and acclaimed. And Open Road Media has picked up all his works in ebook.
March 30th, 2024 at 9:48 pm
@GSS ex-noob: cool beans. Puts me one digital handshake away from a lot of SF notables.
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazr8JkazmE )
And yeah, that’s a better Sagan title choice. 🙂
March 31st, 2024 at 3:27 pm
‘A literary flying bomb’ — ATLANTIC CITY PRESS