Jan 05
Michelle Comments: I suspect the figure in the lower half of the cover found their armor just wasn’t enough to protect them from the title pun. Look at the poor spaceman, crushed by the agony! This is a follow-up to Matt’s submission of SpaceCops: Kill Station. I thought maybe you all hadn’t suffered enough, and another one from the series just came into the shop. Enjoy?
Published 1992
January 5th, 2012 at 10:12 am
I think that chappie’s bending over to give us the low moon…
January 5th, 2012 at 10:19 am
His aim hasn’t improved much. He’s still firing off into the blue. What is so threatening outside the image border that it needs to be shot?
January 5th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Does.. that bane helmet have razors on the side!! Tilt you head left and goodbye shoulders!
January 5th, 2012 at 11:45 am
That black armor on the right — how, how does he move his arms? I see horrible chafing with the slightest shift away from his current stance.
January 5th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
The triumphant return of Space Lops!
January 5th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
“I can’t see a thing in this helmet!”
January 5th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Look out for these riveting sequels to Space Cops: HIGH MOON
– Space Cops: GUNFIGHT AT E.T. CORRAL
– Space Cops: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE TENTACLED
– Space Cops: SHE WORE A YELLOW OXYGEN TUBE
January 5th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
“What took you so long, bitch? I’m getting reamed here!”
“Sorry, love, I was held up at the Tenderloin!”
(That’s a San Francisco joke, by the way, and it’s totally appropriate for a spacesuit like that.)
January 5th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
New York Times best selling authors!!
Who are these writers and when did they
get on the NYT list?
January 5th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
“Hold them off! I’ve lost a contact.”
January 5th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
@Ian: Diane Duane has done a lot of TV scriptwriting, including for Star Trek, and has written some popular Star Trek novels. She’s done more, but that’s what I’m most familiar with.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Is it just me, or does “Solar Patrol” conjure up images of folks sunbathing on the beach?
“Can’t talk now, I’m on solar patrol. Pass me the SPF 100.”
January 5th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
I have this book!
It’s not that bad, really, and is totally awesome when you’re a teenage boy.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
“How can this cover better reflect the lawlessness of the galactic frontier?”
“How about a space suit with fingerless gloves subliminaly reflecting the lack of comprehensive health and safety rules?”
“Perfect!”
January 6th, 2012 at 1:27 am
I like how the shiny, shiny armor doesn’t have *TING*s emanating from it, but the flesh of his neck and arms DOES.
And is it just me, or does the guy in the foreground look like he’s playing “human picnic table” for his dom?
January 6th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Slight mistake in the header for this post – NOON instead of MOON.
And Tom Noir: I’ve said it before, but if it’s Lops (rather than Cops) then it must also be SpaLe (rather than SpaCe). Hence, SPALE LOPS!
January 6th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Thanks Phil! I was watching too much Gary Cooper over Christmas ๐
January 11th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Well spotted on the oily flesh tings, Don.
February 6th, 2012 at 4:14 am
Is that a mechanical claw jutting out of the black-armoured guy’s boot?
March 2nd, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Is there any profession left that hasn’t been done “In Space”…?
We’ve had space cops (lots of them), space gardeners (Silent Running) space dentists, space popes (Simak), space window cleaners (an award-winning Chinese story, I’m not making this up), space hookers (but OF COURSE…), way too many space soldiers and mercenaries (99% of them published by Baen), space hot dog vendors (Bradbury) space doctors (Damn it, Jim!), space poets (Heinlein) space advertising men (Pohl), space detectives (Asimov) even space plumbers (Asimov again!)…
But I dare anyone to write about…
Space Proctologist
Space Feng Shui Specialist
Space Judo Instructor
Space Science Fiction Writer
March 2nd, 2014 at 10:24 pm
@AR: not only have all of them been done, but examples of most are on this site. ๐
February 22nd, 2019 at 8:14 am
Is the solar patrolman the one in the regular spacesuit, or the one in the fetish gear? Because I gotta say, that’s not an outfit that screams “one of the good guys.”
February 22nd, 2019 at 12:50 pm
The guy on the ground looks like he’s tripping balls, staring at his hand.
February 22nd, 2019 at 1:57 pm
After all these years it’s time to add the tag for Mr. Elite Champion’s skin Ting!
Either he’s a robot or he’s oiled up and ready for action.
February 22nd, 2019 at 3:19 pm
The Glorious Twelfth IN SPACE.
The Laird: McTaggart, would you mind awfully? I seem to have forgotten the collapsible table for my picnic hamper.
The Beater: Very Guid, M’Lud (sotto) ye clatty scunner.
February 22nd, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Not sure why, but I have the distinct feeling both of these clowns are about to get run down by a train.
February 22nd, 2019 at 3:54 pm
Oh, and if the title is High Moon shouldn’t they belong to the Lunar Patrol, not the Solar Patrol? Sorry to be a stickler there.
February 22nd, 2019 at 5:49 pm
@BC
Sun Cops
High Space
Galactic Patrol
a lawless Lunar frontier
…whatever!
Words have no meaning.
February 22nd, 2019 at 6:34 pm
Sean Connery? Frances Sternhagen?
February 22nd, 2019 at 7:52 pm
@B’mancerโWhat you say may be true, but I still like your version better! ๐
August 18th, 2021 at 9:26 pm
Avon Ova….then this cover was painted with egg tempera
August 19th, 2021 at 12:00 am
‘Avonova’? The ‘Blakes 7’/ ‘Babylon 5’ crossover was weirder than we expected.
August 19th, 2021 at 12:06 am
Ah, yes. “Spale Lops” – my favorite series….
August 19th, 2021 at 12:17 am
“High Moon” – a showdown between werewolves?
August 19th, 2021 at 4:07 am
Hm. If it’s “High Moon”, does that mean there will be a “Gumfight at the OLM (Ol’ Lunar Module – sounds like a good name for a Lunar pub) Corral”?
Aaaaaand, of course, AR Yngve beat me to that thought years ago. Gotta get up pretty early in the morning to get one over on *that* guy. ๐
August 20th, 2021 at 3:44 am
“High Moon” — the hydroponics grow things other than food.