Dec 09
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: I see it looking like Jurassic Park, only more space-ship-ey.
Published 2006
I don’t have much time this week to go through the rigorous cover selection criteria…
So welcome, to ‘Tom Noir week’!
(Average: 6.88 out of 10)
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December 9th, 2013 at 11:54 am
I like the works of Eric Flint. Oh, wait a minute, this is by Ryk E. Spoor. I can’t stand him. Or her.
December 9th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
I reading this as the “Eric Flint Boundary” is Rickey’s poor book.
December 9th, 2013 at 12:32 pm
What is that? Is that a crashed Fokker or something? I think you could read this on the bus with impunity, because no-one could interpret the cover!
December 9th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
FYI, EVERY week is Tom Noir week!
December 9th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
@Bibliomancer—I just figured it was the most pretentious way to spell “Ricky” imaginable.
December 9th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Given that his online handle is Sea Wasp, I’m inclined to think Ryk is what his birth certificate says…if Ryk were also a pseudonym he’d have been using that back in the Usenet days. 😉
Sometimes weird names happen, especially for those of us of the right age to have counterculture parents. “Lucien Soulban” is the guy’s real name, for instance.
All that said, the cover is a little less honest than the usual Baen WTF-cover. It’s more of an archaeological reconstruction than something that happens on-screen.
December 9th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
@B. Chiclitz. “Ryk E. Spoor” is of course a pseudonym – an anagram of the author’s real name, Rose Porky.
December 9th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
@Rachel J—GSS!!
(The second “S” stands for “Sister,” of course.)
December 9th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
They dared to cross a cosmic limit beyond which no logic or literary merit existed! They smashed through the…
ERIC FLINT BOUNDARY
December 9th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
“Well I’m not buying you another one!”
I like the way the story is rendered moot by the subtle inclusion of an asteroid strike in the background. Does it finish with “then they all died, the end”?
December 9th, 2013 at 2:33 pm
@THX: That? That’s THE GAS THAT TIME FORGOT. OR RATHER, PRETENDED DIDN’T HAPPEN.
December 9th, 2013 at 2:46 pm
@Rachel J — Rose Porky! Of course, Ricki is a she! Excellent.
How about Eric Flint = Nice Flirt
December 9th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
After nearly thirty years, I’ve suddenly realised – ‘Biggles: Adventures in Time’ actually COULD have been worse.
December 9th, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Nice depiction of a caldera. You got your sunken terrain, steep sided walls, and baby growing volcano in the middle. And Ryk E. Spoor sounds like a name Vince McMahon would give one of his WWE wrestlers.
December 9th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
I love the two horned dino’s in the back, casually watching the fight, i mean they are obviously in NO danger. It is a well know fact, meat eaters preferred space ships to plant eating dinosaurs.
December 9th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
I want to know:
Why the T-Rex has a bizarrely human nose.
I don’t want to know:
What that bulbous thing hanging down between the legs of the little dino on the left is (I really don’t want to know that one).
December 9th, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Triceratops in the distance: HEY YOU! KEEP THE BLOODY NOISE DOWN OKAY?
December 10th, 2013 at 2:08 am
@THX. Hadn’t noticed the asteroid – so the title must refer to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. The perfect setting! Anytime you run out of plot ideas – KA-BOOM!
December 10th, 2013 at 4:15 am
Re: the rollover text: I really hope this *is* about how dinosaurs invented space and/or time travel, thus laying the foundations for so many other books. A universal prequel, if you will.
December 10th, 2013 at 7:33 am
I have an ominous feeling that somehow, somewhere, cat people with big guns will enter the plot…
December 12th, 2013 at 1:56 am
“surrender, run headlong to the void, the reptile’s among us…”
neil fallon
December 28th, 2013 at 10:19 am
@Rachel – or Roky Prose.
Maybe Sporko Rye? I’d use an anagram if my parents named me Sporko.
What the hell is “Eric Flint Boundary” and why do they call it that?
January 4th, 2014 at 7:34 pm
@THX, that is not an asteroid. The T-Rex was merely trying to mark his territory, but he farted instead, which is why the triceratops on the right seems to be noticing something most foul in the air.
August 25th, 2015 at 12:14 am
You’re clearly supposed to THINK that “Boundary”, by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor is the title and authors, but the Font tells us otherwise: it’s “Eric Flint Boundary”, by Ryk E. Spoor.
And does anyone else find the designs on that spaceship to be exceptionally medieval? I wonder if the pilot(s) are from a feudal society?
March 8th, 2016 at 9:25 am
Sequels were:
– EDGE
– CIRCUMFERENCE
– LIMIT