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Published 2001
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Tom Noir Comments: Look out! No brakes!
Published 2001
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May 28th, 2013 at 9:21 am
Making Venn Diagrams Fun!
May 28th, 2013 at 11:04 am
Astronauts having fun with their balls.
May 28th, 2013 at 11:05 am
%@$$#! Watch where you bounce, you lunatics!
May 28th, 2013 at 11:17 am
So this was written in response to threats from Orson Scott Card? Interesting.
May 28th, 2013 at 11:49 am
The stunning advances in space hopper technology.
May 28th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
The inhabitants of the Moon were hundreds of feet tall. And their queen had captured the astronauts from Earth. The men knew their plan of escape could work. But first, captain Ben Wa and his brother would have to become – the gargantuan queen’s playthings!
May 28th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
“If David Gerrold doesn’t %$#*%@& his @#$%$#@ skulls-a-poppin’ %!@?#&#$@* with cat people … then he can @#$%+#@ %$#*@& mother @#$#@%$#@ %!@?#&#$@* and %$#*$%@&!% assclown @$%!@?% #&#$@* my balls!” — J.R.R. “Doc” Asimov
May 28th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
The fonts are NOT BIG ENOUGH, I demand bigger fonts!!
May 28th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Look at it this way: if the fonts were smaller the balls would be larger.
May 28th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
So I’m chortling at all the balls playing in this thread and then, checking out the cover closely, I see the source of those balls in the sad, broken phallus at lower right—detailed even to the point of embarrassment at the tip.
May 28th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Wow. Apparently, no, wait..were they born inside those little bubble craft? How did they get into those ‘craft’ to begin with? They are kneeling, but have nothing to grab on to, who designed those things? And judging by the look on both faces, there seems to be an ongoing issue with low oxygen levels. But then, if you weren’t a little ‘ duhhh-ee-ohh’ would you even dream of going into the vacuum of space in something like that?
Please tell me there was no sequel and that Orson Scott laid a righteous ass-whuppin’ on David Gerrold.
Nothing against Mr. Gerrold mind you, it would just be cool.
May 28th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Must be a sequel to this one:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/japanese3.jpg
Or a prequel to this, once you get a whole load of them balls:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/04/the-jagged-orbit/
May 28th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Spaceballs designed by the Testes Rocket Company of Colorado.
May 28th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Having the biggest balls on the moon is fun and all, but who do you brag about them to?
May 28th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Dick and Harry misunderstood him when their urologist recommended vacuum therapy for erectile dysfunction.
May 28th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
@rags—Maybe to her?
(see Virgin Planet)
or her?
(see Glory Road)
May 28th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
You just know, yes you do, that they both have AC/DC blasting in those things, singing along with Bon Scott. Everybody all together now…
“We’ve got big balls, yes we have big balls,
and they’re such big balls, dirty big balls,
he’s got big balls, and she’s got big balls,
but we’ve got the biggest BALLS OF THEM ALL!!”
May 28th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Giant bounce is what we make
Bouncing off the moon
I hope my bubble don’t break
Bouncing off the moon
We could bounce up a yard
Bouncing off the moon
Don’t impress Orson Scott Card
Bouncing off, bouncing off the moon!
Goodness, I’m in an 80s mood, aren’t I?
May 28th, 2013 at 3:49 pm
“Do you remember,
bouncing cross the moon in plastic balls,
do you remember,
inside they weren’t really very tall,
So sorry,
never meant to piss you off,
please forgive me,
didn’t mean to piss you off,
I’m sorry,
didn’t want to piss you off,
but it happened…
Orson,
is it to late to say I’m sorry?
Oh Orson,
can’t we get it together againn?
If I never write the sequel,
does it mean we can’t be friends?
Apologies to Fish.
May 28th, 2013 at 4:55 pm
“If there’s gay marriage, I’m going to be so %@$$#ed off!”
-Orson Scott Card
May 28th, 2013 at 5:03 pm
Isn’t this basically the 80s movie “The Explorers”? 🙂
May 28th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high,
Nearly reach the sky,
Whoops now I’m on the moon
(@Eric H. – you mean this River Phoenix / Ethan Hawke beauty? http://youtu.be/VZp10uBMBDc)
May 28th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
How not to create a bubble boys;
1. Make sure the size of the hover balls is strictly for a toddler or a small dog. Anyone else will have to crouch down unto their knees or on all fours. The key is to make the rider as uncomfortable as possible.
2. Do not make the floaty-balls with all clear, transparent surfaces. We do not want the riders to have an unobstructed view of the outside, nuts to that, we want shiny, golden ting surfaces that reflect everything (internally). When the sun comes up the kids will suffer from temporary blindness. OH also make the bottom out of discarded borg cube materials.
3. Do not make the sphere-balls move in any mathematical way at all, we want swaying, rocking, bouncing and general randomness when flying. The goal here is to get the kids to throw up, thus further blocking their already terrible view.
4. Sure an actual helmet and a some sort of space bike, rocket, ship, sled, surfboard would be HELLA cooler, but no, give them SPACE BALLS!! May their balls bounce the highest.
5. NO CONTROLS, just push the balls out and hope for the best!
May 28th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
@Rags, re #5:
Heh, that’s what SHE said.
May 28th, 2013 at 9:06 pm
@Tom Noir 24—who, her?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/05/the-second-kingdom/
May 28th, 2013 at 9:22 pm
David Gerrold claimed another cover was the worst ever slapped on one of his books:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/03/when-harlie-was-one/#comment-296606
I suggest he reconsider.
May 28th, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Not enough circles and arcs. A few craters would have been nice.
May 29th, 2013 at 12:39 am
“There had better be a sequel”? Orson sounds more like he’s saying the previous book stopped in the middle of things and left him hanging.
May 29th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
“So what’s there to do around here?”
“We could play human pinball.”
May 29th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
“If there’s not a sequel to JUMPING OFF THE PLANET I’m going to be so *#*#*#*#* off” – Orson Scott Card
But is this book that sequel?
May 31st, 2013 at 7:38 am
Orson Scott Card is quoted on the cover of a…David Gerrold novel?!?!
**BUZZZZ! FZZT! DOES NOT COMPUTE! SELF-DESTRUCT INITIATED! BZZZZZT!**
June 2nd, 2013 at 3:38 am
I’ve always been perplexed that Gerrold had this pedantic crap artist on this series. It’s not that great, but it’s better than a lot of young adult sf.
June 2nd, 2013 at 5:53 am
I guess they just sort of squat the entire trip, because those things don’t look tall enough to be standing in, and because no one thought to include seats in their design. The good news is, if you survive the trip, you get to come home with the lower body of a world-class bodybuilder.
June 30th, 2013 at 7:43 am
o/~ And I awoke
faintly bouncing off the moon
This story Devid Gerrold wrote o/~
September 6th, 2015 at 6:11 pm
They’re not space seamen by any chance?
September 7th, 2015 at 12:55 am
@anon: no, then there would be long flagellae trailing behind them. 😉
September 7th, 2015 at 9:44 am
@DSWBT: So, just regular spacemen two balls. The guy in the back is singing with air-mic all right, but the first one is air-keyboarding. So, I’m thinking Van Halen’s Jump.
February 25th, 2023 at 4:43 am
Looks like they survived the space cadet training program, unlike this poor guy:
https://youtu.be/Y-v7_Ja3ExU
February 26th, 2023 at 4:30 pm
I don’t think that’s how VR golf is supposed to work – you’re supposed to be the player, not the ball!
February 26th, 2023 at 11:10 pm
Damn it, Ted! Will you please stop saying “boing, boing!”
February 26th, 2023 at 11:38 pm
@JJYoyo: Is Russian invading other formerly-Soviet country. Is going to go badly, da? Also the much higher gravity of Earth. Also stupidity.
Things that make me go hmmm.:
1. Orson (not the cat seen here so often) used two $$ in his grawlix, the usual & and * he omitted. Money, hmmm.
2. We all know how homophobic OSC is, so you’d think he’d want nowt to do with Gerrold. But the latter never married, so that’s OK? OTOH, he did adopt a boy, so…
February 27th, 2023 at 4:37 am
@GSSxN: “On Moon, you bounce off terrain. In Russia, terrain bounces off YOU!”
Sigh. That never gets old.
Re point 1: I am not an expert in the Church of LDS, but aren’t Mormons not supposed to swear?
Re point 2: I have no particular animus against OSC, but for a guy with certain opinions about homosexuality there were some rather weird subtexts in Enders Game ( the only OSC novel I have read). That made me go hmmm….