Jul 19
Click for full imageFrank Comments: I just thought it was cute because it was another Campbell Award nomination and the artist put a nude girl on the cover, even if it was tasteful back-side nudity.
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July 19th, 2012 at 9:43 am
“Let(he) me out!” (a must-have groaner)
July 19th, 2012 at 10:27 am
“You can do it! Be the Dolphin!”
“Oh damn. Bob, get me another one. This one’s drowned too.”
July 19th, 2012 at 11:38 am
“And you simply must try the spa’s divine flotation tank. No, you can’t get out, but it’s sooo relaxing.”
July 19th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
It’s actually a beautiful painting. My pedantic inner optics person tells me liquid-filled cylinders don’t work like that, but a person visually stretched out tremendously horizontally due to diffraction and lensing effects would be a lot harder to recognise as human, so good use of artistic license there.
July 19th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
The only thing that concerns me here is the slight excess of bubbles emanating from the region of her derriere.
July 19th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Damn, Phil beat me too it: where are those bubbles coming from?!
July 19th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
She looks a lot happier than the fellow at back left.
@Alessandra:note that the light from the monitors is distorted. Let’s wave our hands about and say ‘polarized light’ and ‘phase conjugation’ and look clever.
July 19th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I hadn’t noticed the fellow on the left. He DOES look troubled, as if he’s been doing the Houdini trick and it’s gone wrong.
I also hadn’t noticed (until now) that the lady appears to have some slender curved wires attached to her shoulder blades, going… where? (Or is this just a scratch on the cover?)
July 19th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Dolphins? Better get Brin.
July 19th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
The blue and red lights around the top of her container say: _ _ . _ . _
That;s international morse code for ‘G, N, T’.
Just thought you ought to know.
July 19th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
@fred: I hang my head in misery because I get it. XD
@Adam: a trendy acronym for Girl’s Nudie Tube, no doubt.
July 20th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Or maybe she’s floating in a gin and tonic? Hence the bubbles.
July 27th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
@Phil: I think the “slender curved wires” were part of the artwork. I think I took them to be tubes.
This photo was something of a reply to Alessandra Kelley’s comment here:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/06/the-door-into-fire-2/#comment-186197
August 3rd, 2012 at 6:37 pm
You KNOW it must be Nebula-worthy if there’s nudity on the cover!
December 7th, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Many of us wish we could play our massively multiplayer oceanic rorqual playing games every hour of every day, without having to eat, drink, sleep or bathe.
Ethel did something with the idea, and she also removed ‘breathe’ from the list!
December 7th, 2013 at 10:04 pm
The Girl In A Tube is an old, old SF cover cliche. I think it dates back to the Hugo Gernsback era, or even earlier.
While this particular cover is pretty good, I’m a bit concerned about how the motif crops up again and again… why this obsession with putting naked people in tanks?
December 8th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Just thought you should know that the author’s original title was ‘Lethal’. So you see, there’s a good reason for this cover.
January 4th, 2017 at 1:39 am
So there’s 4 spouts shooting bubbles upwards on the bottom of her tank. Second from left, she’s got going up her bum like an inverse bidet. Third from left, she’s got tickling her ladybits. Surprised the Morse code isn’t spelling out “oooh, aaahhh, YES!”