Jul 09
Click for full imageNix Comments: This book is reasonable-if-crappy (it’s a Modesitt, so it has Modesitt’s sole interchangeable plot) and the cover is a pretty good depiction of a scene from the book… but the cover is so badly done it distracted me from reading the book. I’m not even sure what’s wrong with it. Are those bobbleheads or are they actually almost in proportion and merely a horrible example of the dangers of having naturalistic heads and cartoon everything else? I don’t know.
Published 2000
Space pilots are so moody!
Thanks to Nix!
(Average: 6.51 out of 10)
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July 9th, 2010 at 10:06 am
What would Gravity Dreams of?
July 9th, 2010 at 10:22 am
“Not only does this helmet protect you from vacuum, Gina … ”
“No, John? What else can it do?”
“Well Gina, it can chop your onions …”
“No way John …”
“… it also flattens your ears!”
“Tell us what else is in the package, John.”
“Ok, Gina, if you order now, we’ll throw in one of thsese space suits…”
“… but that’s not all John, is it?”
“… of course not. The next ten buyers will get one of those space ships behind me …”
drone drone drone …
July 9th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Gravity dreams are HEAVY, man…
July 9th, 2010 at 10:57 am
“Come on Sara, can you really tell me my ass doesn’t look great in this!”
Don’t listen to him soph! Heavy is just wrong! It’s all about mass! 😛
July 9th, 2010 at 11:15 am
I can only assume the artiste is the best in the biz at drawing sporty space suits, but if she or he were just one bit worse at human heads/faces the art director would be forced to call in someone who could at least pencil in a proportionate face, or Photoshop in a handsome yet brooding stock photo face.
July 9th, 2010 at 11:42 am
“Due to budget cut backs we actually don’t have spacesuits. These are just props from Lost In Space (19980”
“Mine smells like Heather Graham!”
July 9th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Hah, I remember reading that when I was 14. I thought it was a cool cover in the late-90’s.
July 9th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
SophaLoaf: a better title would have been ‘Antigravity Dreams’, because the title is a reference to people’s dreams of antigravity, which plays a very small part n the book (I think it’s mentioned in two paragraphs, total). The book is quite depressing: massive amounts of setup and then it’s like he forgot that there should be a payoff somewhere too.
On reflection I think the people’s heads are distorted: the man’s head is half the size of his torso, and much larger than his helmet. Perhaps he looks so broody because he’s trying to work out if he can survive without oxygen.
July 9th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Odd engineering. External wires and hoses? A cool look but could cause snag issues at the worst moment.
No, don’t use a sports bra – just build in ample accommodation with structural reinforcements. Looks comfy
July 9th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
The guy would be almost in proportion if his suit were simply painted onto skin, which might be what happened. But if it has even a little bit of thickness, it throws his head into balloonism.
July 9th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Is there a tag for “boob armor”?
July 9th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Taylor Lautner’s pre-Twilight career – modelling anti-grav suits
July 10th, 2010 at 7:29 am
@Dave … maybe it’s her helmet. Maybe she was naughty and now he took her helmet and she’s not allowed to go into space for seven days …
July 10th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Dave, he still has a huge head.
And it doesn’t really look like his helmet would fit.
What’s a recluce?
July 10th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Recluce. Noun: one who doecn’t like to be ceen.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Paul Rudd is taller than expected.
July 14th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Hm. They *are* both stuffed full of nanotech. Perhaps nanotech causes swelled heads? I mean it seems to do everything else plots require from eat the world to curing bad drunken singing.
December 14th, 2014 at 12:37 am
Holy Uncanny Valley, Batman!
December 18th, 2014 at 7:46 pm
Master Chief’s lost all his mystique to me.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:23 am
@Tag Wizard: “Proportional Issues” please!
November 24th, 2015 at 4:36 am
Tax avoidance scheme causes Jimmy Carr to travel further afield.
November 25th, 2015 at 11:15 am
Her: “Morning wood again, eh?”
Him: “It’s this damn suit — it leaves nothing to the imagination!”
Her: “And it makes my thighs look fat!”
February 24th, 2016 at 5:08 pm
It’s as if they decided to combine ‘Jupiter Ascending’ and ‘Zoolander II’ to make a tax-loss film that nobody would ever want to watch.
February 24th, 2016 at 5:18 pm
Dipper and Mabel look different as adults.
March 3rd, 2016 at 11:43 am
Great huge melons of the craft Fun o’ Caca II
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