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Click for full imageJaouad Comments: The Galactic Writers’ Society’s annual outing got decidedly less high-brow as the day wore on.
Published 1995
(Average: 6.58 out of 10)
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Jaouad Comments: The Galactic Writers’ Society’s annual outing got decidedly less high-brow as the day wore on.
Published 1995
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July 30th, 2012 at 11:35 am
“Can’t give up now… got a great idea for a Choose Your Own Adventure book!”
July 30th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Could the copy at the bottom of the cover could speak more poorly of the could Galactic Writer’s Society could could could?
July 30th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
“We call this system the pun-genocider. Write too many puns and out you go.”
July 30th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Ah, perhaps *this* was the First Experiment!
July 30th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
34, 35, 36, 37….38.
Man, are my arms burning!
July 30th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Could one writer and inexperienced android write the entire plot line in the form of a question at the bottom of this book cover?
July 30th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
That’s a big head. Looks like a crappy cut and paste job.
July 31st, 2012 at 5:52 am
J.O. Jeppson, you scamp!
July 31st, 2012 at 7:33 am
Impeccable teeth. Somebody’s been flossing.
July 31st, 2012 at 7:34 am
I can’t help wondering if the title betrays some delusions of grandeur, where the death of a writer could apparently cause interstellar war.
July 31st, 2012 at 1:04 pm
These olympic high dive events have really gotten out of control.
February 10th, 2014 at 5:43 pm
“This crunch exercise is great! I can feel my abs getting harder!”
February 10th, 2014 at 9:20 pm
MULDER AT THE GALACTIC WRITERS’ SOCIETY.
Unfortunately, Scully got dropped. Bad luck!
July 3rd, 2015 at 12:56 pm
Flying girl is vacuuming again.
July 8th, 2015 at 11:12 am
Jennifer Lien did not go easily when dropped from the Star Trek franchise.
December 14th, 2015 at 11:38 pm
Ripley at least buckled up before blowing the hatch.
May 21st, 2021 at 1:06 pm
They put up a “Caution: Wet Floor” sign and what does she do? She trips on it.
May 21st, 2021 at 2:21 pm
My guess as to the murderer in this game of Clue is Theodore Sturgeon in the L Ron Hubbard exhibit with the hard cover copy of Dangerous Visions.
May 21st, 2021 at 2:31 pm
Things get really bad for the grinning dangler when the villain of the piece starts throwing the complete works of Asimov in hardback at those perfect teeth…
May 21st, 2021 at 5:26 pm
I see this universe subscribes to the Star Wars “no railings” philosophy. Or is she actually being pulled horizontally and that’s the back of a chair or something?
(An “inexperienced android?” What is the android inexperienced at? Being an android?)
May 21st, 2021 at 6:12 pm
@Bruce A Munro
If that’s the android on the cover, they might need a bit more experience at using a lift…
May 21st, 2021 at 6:26 pm
@Bruce
It’s a sex thing – better not to ask.
May 21st, 2021 at 8:49 pm
She’s looking at something out of frame. It’s her old timey type writer about to collide with her face. Silly hipster.
May 22nd, 2021 at 12:51 am
Janet Asimov wrote books with her husband, and I’m guessing that she also attended various writers’ meetings and sci-fi conventions. So OK, I’m going to guess the plot of this book.
The heroine is a Mary Sue. For most readers, the main draw is going to be how the author portrays and parodies other writers, who will be thinly disguised versions of famous sci-fi authors. There will be many in-jokes and perhaps a short, obnoxious character with a name something like Ellen Harleson (wink, wink.)
Close?
May 22nd, 2021 at 1:54 am
@Tor: I haven’t read this, but I’d bet you’re right.
Isaac also hung out with mystery writers, so a few of the characters will be parodies of them.
May 22nd, 2021 at 3:30 am
Looking at some reviews of the book online, it appears that the android is indeed the woman on the cover, and as for the self-insert part, it’s somewhat complicated by the writer being male and member of an alien species. On the other hand, the writer is married to a Space Princess, so perhaps it’s a commentary on her marriage to Asimov? 🙂
May 23rd, 2021 at 6:58 pm
I’d kind of like to be the guy who’s about to walk out on that plank and start stepping on those fingers, slowly, one by one.
May 24th, 2021 at 2:08 am
@B. Chiclitz (Twirls his mustache, laughs maniacally)
May 24th, 2021 at 2:15 am
@BC: If she’s an android, might not work.
Best to use a laser gun. Light saber. Space machete.
May 24th, 2021 at 4:51 am
@GSSxn—Did I not mention I’d be wearing my special titanium-soled dilithium-powered Android-Grade Skechers®️? Nyah-ha-ha-ha!!