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Click for full imageJoachim’s Art Direction: For our story about ALIEN talking space bears let’s mix it with some Earth myth — you know, Goldilocks and the Three Bears– and since it’s for boys, a SWORD and a HUGE glass of beer (bear beer?)…
Published 1983
(Average: 8.32 out of 10)
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July 25th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
The bear-sized book, I get. The bear-sized squirrel, I do not.
July 25th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
The boy is also weirdly proportioned….
July 25th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Bear walks into a bar and says to the barman, “I’ll have a pint of… beer, please.” And the barman goes, “Why the space paws?” No, that’s not right.
July 25th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
They come in gallons?
July 25th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
That bear’s sword-hand is oddly swollen, almost as if somebody looked down and saw that we would all be getting an eyeful of bear ass if it weren’t.
Or maybe it’s that the bear’s off-hand is oddly shrunk? His feet look cartoonishly proportioned as well; for a second, I almost thought he was wearing plush-fur “bear foot” slippers.
July 26th, 2011 at 2:35 am
Young Bill Gates sells his soul to an alien race.
July 26th, 2011 at 8:09 am
“and sho you shee, the firsht gallon wash too too cold, ‘n’ the shecond wash too too warm, but the third, hic, well the third wash… wash… where wash I? Oi! You lookin’ at my bird?!?”
July 26th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
“Do humans like beer? Am I about to go outside, walk into the forest and defecate?”
Not sure why he has the sword. Maybe to protect himself whilst about his, er, business.
July 27th, 2011 at 4:34 am
Wayne Barlowe drew a cool rendition of the Dilbians, more accurate to how Dickson described them in his stories:
http://www.umtoquedearte.com/0/gtoextwb1/pages/Barlowe_Wayne-Dilbian-D50.htm
July 27th, 2011 at 9:10 am
You guys will have to bear with me, I’m still pawing through this one.
July 29th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
The covers of the earlier editions of this work depict the Dilbians as gorillas…. weird…
For example, http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/0/04/SPCPWNSSMX1969.jpg
July 29th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Or bearpigs….
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/0/03/SPCPWQRPMK1976.jpg
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:58 am
You mind if I rest my Billy Beer on your scrawny leg? Thank you very much!
August 15th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
“If I told you once, I told you twice. Don’t touch my beer!”
August 15th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Everyone looks inebriated…even the little squirrel.
October 1st, 2011 at 3:50 pm
The cover is badly executed by fairly accurate. The best cover for this was the earlier Ace Double edition.
July 2nd, 2015 at 4:05 pm
You would think Timmy McScrawnypants would be straining a little harder to lift a beer mug of that size.
July 3rd, 2015 at 10:18 am
Is this one of those “I’m my own spacepaw” books?
August 27th, 2015 at 1:52 am
@Tag Wizard: Given that kid, methinks we need a “Proportional issues” tag, yes?
August 27th, 2015 at 2:20 am
@Anna T. – Yea verily.
May 8th, 2017 at 3:22 pm
“I’m gonna tell you schumthin’… you got schome DAAAMN nerve… to come in here’n think you’re schome kinda… *hic*… big city hot schot…”
June 16th, 2018 at 11:40 pm
Bear-wielding?
February 29th, 2024 at 7:26 pm
“Hold my beer.”
February 29th, 2024 at 10:13 pm
@GSS, Tor Mented
The sequel had generally better covers.
https://strangerthansf.com/images/dickson-spacialdelivery.2.jpg
https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/oie_84350M5i9fCBe.jpg