If this is a reprint of ‘The Ring of Ritornel’ then cobwebs as a tool of harupsication are somewhere in the mix. Don’t remember a bush-baby, though. Not a ring-tailed lemur, unless the ring-tail’s gone solo.
Printed 1999, has indeed got ‘Ritornel’ and three others. A long-sought-after compilation of out-of-print and never-published ‘widescreen baroque’ ((c) Brian Aldiss) from NESFA press.
Who appear to have been traumatised by watching ‘Animal Magic’ with Johnnie Morris in 1974.
A few years back I worked in a nature centre that had a few resident bush babies. They were generally good matured, but if you came in at night and suddenly turned on lights, that was a different story.
We had this one strange occurrence when old Jimmy Bob Swagglesworth came in about 11:00 PM (after a little after work lubrication) wanting to retrieve his cell phone─he was always leaving it lying around the place.
When he switched on the light in the primate area, a strange sound suddenly emanated from the bush baby enclosure. Jimmy Bob swears it was a shrill little voice screaming out, “The light it burns our eyes, Precious! Fluorescent Lights, we hate thee forever!†Then a gibbon hit him upside the head with a load of poop.
Well anyway he said it really happened and we have his barber’s word on the poop incident.
I’ll get me coat
Actually, I think I’ll get Dead Stuff With Big Teeth’s coat. It has more interesting things in the pockets.
It looks like the illustrator just took off his wedding ring and copied it into the picture…then added a pseudo-lemur mascot and a rainbow web. (Wow, you just never know what sentences you’re going to need when you comment on this blog.)
Is this the book version of that ultra-creepy Japanese horror movie where unsuspecting people put on a cursed ring, and then they get a weird phone call, and then a mute black-haired ghost crawls out of the ring and the wearer dies of fright…?
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January 8th, 2014 at 9:25 am
Strange, I don’t remember Gollum being so furry.
January 8th, 2014 at 11:03 am
I don’t think that will fit his finger. Expensive hula hoop, maybe?
January 8th, 2014 at 12:10 pm
If I saw a huge, fabulous spider go by, yes, I would look like that as well!
January 8th, 2014 at 12:10 pm
Wait, is it a ring, or is it a harness?
January 8th, 2014 at 1:23 pm
Space Lemur or no, that is one strange foot.
January 8th, 2014 at 1:38 pm
The Cirque du Soleil tribute to Tolkien!
January 8th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Rings. No one answers. Hangs up. Shrugs.
Quartet of books by Charles L Harness.
January 8th, 2014 at 1:59 pm
If this is a reprint of ‘The Ring of Ritornel’ then cobwebs as a tool of harupsication are somewhere in the mix. Don’t remember a bush-baby, though. Not a ring-tailed lemur, unless the ring-tail’s gone solo.
January 8th, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Lemme see
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Printed 1999, has indeed got ‘Ritornel’ and three others. A long-sought-after compilation of out-of-print and never-published ‘widescreen baroque’ ((c) Brian Aldiss) from NESFA press.
Who appear to have been traumatised by watching ‘Animal Magic’ with Johnnie Morris in 1974.
God knows, I was.
January 8th, 2014 at 3:05 pm
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Rings http://t.co/lAHe2KkPwQ
January 8th, 2014 at 4:37 pm
A few years back I worked in a nature centre that had a few resident bush babies. They were generally good matured, but if you came in at night and suddenly turned on lights, that was a different story.
We had this one strange occurrence when old Jimmy Bob Swagglesworth came in about 11:00 PM (after a little after work lubrication) wanting to retrieve his cell phone─he was always leaving it lying around the place.
When he switched on the light in the primate area, a strange sound suddenly emanated from the bush baby enclosure. Jimmy Bob swears it was a shrill little voice screaming out, “The light it burns our eyes, Precious! Fluorescent Lights, we hate thee forever!†Then a gibbon hit him upside the head with a load of poop.
Well anyway he said it really happened and we have his barber’s word on the poop incident.
I’ll get me coat
Actually, I think I’ll get Dead Stuff With Big Teeth’s coat. It has more interesting things in the pockets.
January 8th, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Technically… should it not be called Ring?
January 8th, 2014 at 6:28 pm
@Kripslod: THAT’S NOT MY COAT.
What, er, what exactly is it that Carlito syrichta holds so tightly in its grasp?
January 10th, 2014 at 8:50 pm
It looks like the illustrator just took off his wedding ring and copied it into the picture…then added a pseudo-lemur mascot and a rainbow web. (Wow, you just never know what sentences you’re going to need when you comment on this blog.)
January 14th, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Publisher to artist: “I want a rainbow spider web to be the centre piece of this book…and throw in something cute…and something shiny. That’ll sell!”
January 1st, 2016 at 1:05 pm
Amazing that you can publish a book in 1999, and make it look like it came out in 1979.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:51 pm
One ring to rule them all and to a space spider web to bind them..
January 3rd, 2016 at 10:15 am
Is this the book version of that ultra-creepy Japanese horror movie where unsuspecting people put on a cursed ring, and then they get a weird phone call, and then a mute black-haired ghost crawls out of the ring and the wearer dies of fright…?