May 09
Tom Noir Comments: Nice try, teach, but I still don’t buy that math is, “like getting SUPER high!”
Published 1998
Tom Noir Comments: Nice try, teach, but I still don’t buy that math is, “like getting SUPER high!”
Published 1998
May 9th, 2013 at 10:23 am
And this is a breakdown of Jimmy Carr’s tax evasion – oh, nope, it’s a breakdown of Jimmy Carr.
May 9th, 2013 at 10:29 am
Love the eye movement in the right panel.
Done something wrong in parallel universes? Look around comically…
May 9th, 2013 at 10:53 am
What a title. I gather there is a sequel, PERPENDICULARITIES, which goes off at a bit of a tangent.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
What I love is the little cloud! Is it on the cover, or was there a little floaty cloud in the bookshop when you snapped the pic?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
@Phil – some would call that sequel “normal”
sorry for being obtuse
May 9th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
@Bibliomancer, it was acute line and needed to be said.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
@ DaveM – Your comment is a sine of dementia.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
@B’mancer—obtuse, perhaps, yet, somehow, at the same time, acute.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
@B.Chiclitz – I am not the one dragging out this debate. I think you are the protractor.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
@Bibliomancer – No need to get all hyperbolic about it!
I haven’t read this book but I’m guessing it involves some sinister plotting by the axis.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
@Tom Noir – Yes, but the story line is very derivative.
May 9th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Sorry I’m late, did I miss sum thing?
May 9th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
@DSWBT—there’s no proof that you have; however it does seem we’ve hit a regression.
May 9th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
This cover reminds me of the video to Once in a Lifetime, for some odd reason.
May 9th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Needs more prime numbers.
May 9th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Is there some sort of bizarre behind the scenes contest among authors to see who can create the most ridiculous titles and still sell copies?
“I’m sorry sir, you want what book?”
“Parasola, wait no. Parrallelogr..no that’s not it. Parawella, oh never mind. Now I’ve a spllitting headache. Give me anything with Eric Flint on the cover. Suddenly I’m in the mood for explosions(rest in peace Haji)
May 9th, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Initially I misread the title as “Paralegaltitties”. I thought it was a book of soft-core lawyer porn.
May 9th, 2013 at 8:40 pm
@B’mancer—er, “Pairalegaltitties”?
May 9th, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Yes, I assumed the paralegal was over 18.
May 10th, 2013 at 2:37 am
I imagine seeing this in a book catalog sometime:
Science Fiction Cover Art, Volume I: 1926-1975. SOLD OUT.
Science Fiction Cover Art, Volume II: 1975-2013. CLEARANCE SALE 80% OFF!
May 10th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
@Tom Hering: If the content were arranged chronologically, I’d expect those sales figures to be reversed. 😉
May 10th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
This cover speaks to me. It says, “Huh? Wha? Who? Huh?”.
May 15th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Wow that cover is so asymptotic!
May 15th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
@Anti-Sceptic—But not, unfortunately, asymptomatic.
May 15th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
“once you see it” tag is missing.
May 16th, 2013 at 7:01 am
THE DUHH CURVE
A Startling New Statistical Breakthrough In The Study of Dudes Who Say “Duhh”
May 16th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Mr Cowie, again you are quite right.
It’s. Everywhere.
May 16th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
“Flinx”? “Parallelities”? The author is the anti-Shakespeare. He coins words that have NO CHANCE of becoming embedded in the English language. Those are two of the ugliest words I’ve ever seen. “DUHH” is elegant by comparison.
May 16th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
“Flinx†is a name, actually. There are about twenty books about Flinx and his pet snake. Maybe thirty.
May 16th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
@Rachel J—thanks for the info. I am clearly behind in my Flinx awareness. I suspect I’ll stay just where I am on that. Does the snake have a better name than “Flinx”?
May 16th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
I don’t know– do you consider “Pip†a better name than “Flinx�
May 16th, 2013 at 5:22 pm
@R J—I guess, on the whole, yes. At least it’s a palindrome. Madam I’m Adam. Don’t mean to be cheeky on any of this. Possibly all 30 of the books are quite good. I’m just reacting to the words. Anyway, one of the many beauties of GSS is that it’s not about what’s actually *in* the books, it’s all about surface. A perfect metaphor for our world.
May 16th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
@B. Chiclitz. Well, the ones I’ve read were decent enough, in a space opera-y way– but all very much the same.
August 27th, 2015 at 3:31 am
The expression on the faces is exactly the kind of expression anyone would have if forced to be on a cover such as this.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:00 am
A.K.A. The man who was permanently surprised.
September 8th, 2016 at 12:47 am
A cover so ridiculous it drove the number 8 to suicide. 🙁
September 8th, 2016 at 1:23 pm
@DSWBT—Good Show, Sir!