Jun 28
Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: OK its six of us and five of them. Let’s flip a coin to see who doesn’t get dinner!
Published 1971
(Average: 7.83 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: OK its six of us and five of them. Let’s flip a coin to see who doesn’t get dinner!
Published 1971
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June 28th, 2013 at 10:46 am
“This is embarrassing, does anyone remember where we parked the helicopter?”
It’s OK, I don’t think seahorses are all that dangerous.
June 28th, 2013 at 11:10 am
Y’know what I love the most about this cover?
The signature written in dainty lettering, just below the human characters:
“savage”
June 28th, 2013 at 12:20 pm
Ah yes, another overlooked classic from Roberta Heinlein.
June 28th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
They don’t seem ravenous so much as quite irritated.
‘What have you done with our incubator? Our lovely yellow incubator with the breathing holes in it? Have you set it adrift? How DARE you!’
June 28th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
For their fishing vacation to a world of giants, the Earthmen knew they would need a bobber as big as an oil drilling platform. But they never could have guessed that their TIME FOR THE STARS would become their last moment when the bait they were using decided to turn on them!
June 28th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Men: “WE get to ride the yellow ball!”
Worms: “No, WE do!
Men: “But YOU get to fly the toy helicopter!”
Worms: “No fair! We can’t fly the toy helicopter, we don’t have limbs!”
Men: “Tough. This is Heinlein. No such thing as a free lunch etc.”
Worms: “There is now.”
June 28th, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Roller derby uniforms minus the skates.
June 28th, 2013 at 9:59 pm
“Let’s flip a coin to see who doesn’t get dinner!” — Bibliomancer, let me ask you this: they will flip a coin … how, exactly?
June 28th, 2013 at 10:38 pm
It’s a sestet of Cecils the Seasick Sea Serpents. In space!
June 28th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
@Adam Roberts. And it would have to be a six-sided coin. Forget it, just flip the lily pad and they can all start eating.
June 29th, 2013 at 3:58 am
One of those less-than-superb Heinlein blurbs that use “which” instead of “that” and have far too many nouns and clauses.
I wanted to make the Roberta joke but @Tom Noir 3 beat me to it—GSS! But then I could have referred to the blurb writer as a Roberta Flack!
June 29th, 2013 at 5:20 am
@B.Chiclitz: the ;which’ may be right if the author thinks there are superb Heinlein stories that lack all those attributes.
I’m more curious about why the pink snakes are ignoring the big yellow ball.
June 29th, 2013 at 6:48 pm
While reading back through the archives, I came across the entry for Heinlein’s The Star Beast: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/the-star-beast/ . Same publisher, same price, same “savage” cover artist as this book, so probably similar publishing dates. Is this part of a series, or are these two stories related in some way? Seems like too many parallel design elements for coincidence (or unimaginative art direction).
June 29th, 2013 at 10:55 pm
@ random Donna, you’ll find all eight of Savage’s 1970 Ace Heinlein covers here: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26295
I think they all have a charm appropriate to Heinlein’s juveniles from the 1950s, which wouldn’t work for his seniles of the 1960s and later.
July 1st, 2013 at 8:10 pm
“I told you to listen! What did it say in the Interstellar Edition Michelin’s guide? Hmm? ‘Avoid the local cuisine! That’s what it said! ‘Improper cooking puts diners at risk of parasites. But no! Mr.’I want to experience the culture’ knows better than the experts. And now look what we have! Tapeworms! “
July 2nd, 2013 at 6:23 pm
Pink Serpent No.1: “What do you think they are?”
Pink Serpent No. 2: “No idea, they look like larvae.”
PS No.1: “What should we do with them?”
PS No. 3: “Hit ’em with a rock!”
PS No. 2: “Then we can eat them!”
(With apologies to Galaxy Quest)
July 19th, 2013 at 7:26 pm
worms: Ok, which one of you guys was picking on Shorty over there?
June 10th, 2015 at 9:19 pm
Men in skin tight clothes are menaced by pink worm things near a large, spherical object. Any decent Freudian analyst would have had a field day with this one.
June 11th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
“Have you guys seen our hovercraft?“
August 25th, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Time for the Stars…published under the alternative title Nighttime.
March 17th, 2016 at 10:16 am
Abe Cook
Ole Brain in There
Strange anger at sin hour of Ratland
START OF THE MISER
“Author has perfected the rational solution to erase the urban human excrement in cities and in Chad. Why yip ivy bin? Enjoy a white reading!” — Troy Knew Imes
BTW, “pace”?