Sep 30
Well we had Paris yesterday… or Blackpool… or Las Vegas… anyway, it’s a loose tie-in!
Many thanks to Tat Wood who sent these in ages ago but have been sitting around due to site problems. Which, I might add, are still being looked at – I swear!
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September 30th, 2014 at 9:43 am
Le terreur invisible… the frustration of getting soap in your eyes.
Gilles Novak… or Mel B from Bo’ Selecta?
Milles fois… Are we there yet? We have to make land before the boat sinks.
Piege dans l’espace… When hair extensions go bad.
La nef d’Ishtar… What you never suspected about Warren Beatty.
September 30th, 2014 at 10:34 am
Jimmi Guieu. Pulpish writing and garrish OTT covers. Those were the days…
September 30th, 2014 at 11:51 am
La Naff d’Ishtar: ‘Let us conquer the New World for Gold, Glory and Christina Ricci’s Big Blue Palate!’
September 30th, 2014 at 11:53 am
I like to think that the sheep on the first image is saying ‘Plon!’ in a sort of ‘Blimey!’ voice.
September 30th, 2014 at 12:04 pm
That horrible moment when you reach for a sponge with soap in your eyes… and realise you’ve grabbed Space Sheep instead.
September 30th, 2014 at 12:05 pm
ALSO … Jimmy is completely perving at himself! What a sleaze!
September 30th, 2014 at 1:23 pm
So that’s what Jonathan Littell’s disavowed first novel looks like! Although I persist in thinking of “The Kindly Ones” as basically sf too …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kindly_Ones_(Littell_novel)
September 30th, 2014 at 1:41 pm
A hot pink pirate ship?? Permission to come aboard!!
September 30th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
la terreur invisible….The Entity – early 80’s movie about a rapey ghost supposedly based on a true story?
September 30th, 2014 at 4:25 pm
#1: The tingle tells you that the shampoo is working!
#3: That’s a pretty blurry shot of this cover, but is it just me or is that woman rocking some rather elaborate nipple piercings?
September 30th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
#3: Before…and after!
October 3rd, 2014 at 3:21 pm
The tragedy of Cover #3 is that the art director cropped the jolly figurehead. Of the whole crew, only he looks happy to be out on the water! Everyone else is so sedate, like a Gustav Klimt model…
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:06 pm
#3
The blue gnomes have one oar each yet none of them are rowing.
Stupid lazy gnomes.
October 6th, 2014 at 6:36 pm
“NOOO!! I forgot conditioner! My hair is RUINED!!!”
October 12th, 2014 at 11:55 am
@AR: Actually, you could subtitle covers 1, 2, 4 and 5 with that remark.
March 16th, 2018 at 8:02 am
I’m not sure how you say “naff” in French. Maybe you just display that picture of M. Guieu.
Also, that lady in #3 wishes she had le mouton d’espace — it’d be much more comfortable on her chest than that harness.
March 16th, 2018 at 10:58 am
#4 – When and where were the auditions for space sheep’s replacement held and is there video.
March 16th, 2018 at 11:00 am
#1 Not another fart.
#2 Yet another fart.
#3 Yes, science fiction gnomes. Also science fiction breasts. BTW, have you ever smelled a gnome fart?
#4 Fart extraction piping.
#5 Makes me want to fart.
It’s Friday — I’ll be puerile if I want to.
March 16th, 2018 at 1:11 pm
@GSS ex-Noob: c;est “ringard”.
March 16th, 2018 at 3:54 pm
“piège dans l’space” (which I think is better translated “Space Trap” than “Trap in Space”) is actually the poster from the last concert the future Beatles played in Paris; she’s saying “George” (in a French accent, of course).
March 18th, 2018 at 2:38 am
@Tat Wood: merci.
Am also thinking “plon” and “j’ai lu” ought to mean something similar. Particularly “plon”. As in:
“Did you see the cover on that new Baen book?”
“Yes, the font abuse and big guns were so plon!”
“Yeah, I haven’t seen anything that plon since Dick Blade.”
Regardez #3, I read a synopsis of it, and at no point does it indicate that the women were blue. At no point does this cover indicate the philosophical content of the novel, either.
I miss DSWBT.
Yes I may have been up way late submitting and re-doing my Hugo nominations. Nothing ringard. Of course, today I’ve been thinking “Ooh! why didn’t I nominate THAT?”
I did nominate Grady Hendrix for the great pulp book.