Dec 01
Click for full imageNoel Comments: Aliens & Probes. Never a good combination.
Published 1965
(Average: 6.94 out of 10)
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Noel Comments: Aliens & Probes. Never a good combination.
Published 1965
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December 1st, 2015 at 11:56 am
Badger Books…Mushroom cloud…Ah! It’s a trouser snake!
December 1st, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Playing on the cliché of how a basement-dwelling, sci-fi obsessed male might react in the presence of an actual woman, I see…
December 1st, 2015 at 12:45 pm
Mills & Boom?
December 1st, 2015 at 1:22 pm
I see she’s wearing clothing clearly designed for purpose of exploring alien ruins.
December 1st, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Now there’s something you don’t see every day—a cyclops wearing mittens.
December 1st, 2015 at 1:54 pm
Ah-ha! I thought we had seen R. L. Fanthorpe before! Is it pronounced ‘Fan-thorpe’ or ‘Fant-horpe’ or ‘Fanth-horpe’?
December 1st, 2015 at 2:07 pm
I’m getting confused about what’s getting probed and who’s doing the probing here.
December 1st, 2015 at 2:23 pm
@Bibliomancer—until that cyclops removes his mittens he’s not getting much probing done anyway.
December 1st, 2015 at 2:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz – He’s not getting into any of the action until he ditches the whole hazmat suit.
December 1st, 2015 at 2:59 pm
Rescue attempt thwarted by random badger.
December 1st, 2015 at 3:20 pm
@Dead Stuff: the first of the three options. He had a TV show in the 90s (credited as ‘Father Lionel Fanthorpe’) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajpSsMwOCuU We may have had some covers from any of his umpteen pseudonyms.
December 1st, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Oh lordy Mr and Mrs Fanthorpe and all their collected pseudonyms are a national treasure.
https://unsubscribedblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/badger-bell-chaos1.jpg?w=636&h=958
December 1st, 2015 at 8:33 pm
Collected pseudonyms with all the glorious titles and a Neuron World sample. Oh god the writing-the horror, the horror – “Melinda washed briskly rather than with the kind of graceful, feminine decorum which is normally attributed to models advertising cosmetics and assorted toilet articles on television.” It does not improve.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Of4iAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85&lpg=PT85&dq=fanthorpe+neuron+world&source=bl&ots=agjiX4htSo&sig=6SU00F2lJnMVe1Ajc4JIcIAiIes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio_L_1vrvJAhVHKh4KHcBbCBQQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=fanthorpe%20neuron%20world&f=false
December 1st, 2015 at 9:03 pm
@fred: I appreciate your hyperlinks, I do…But now I feel culturally illiterate. 🙁
December 1st, 2015 at 9:53 pm
Hazmat Suit looks like he’s dancing, and Damsel is either dancing, fainting or posing for an old movie poster. The ruins look like the ruins of a big city post-apocalypse, not something built by aliens. Unless Hazmat Suit is actually an alien, this cover doesn’t look to have that much to do with the book’s plot.
December 1st, 2015 at 11:05 pm
The alien probed her dream badger. She became a nightmare, as she ruins books.
December 1st, 2015 at 11:24 pm
@DSWBT #6 – You like Fanthorpe? We have Fanthorpe over on our website too.
December 2nd, 2015 at 7:10 am
Hey, those are London ruins! If they’re “alien”, that means — plot twist! — that SHE’s an extraterrestrial… from the planet Bazooms!
December 2nd, 2015 at 8:53 am
This’d look more post-apocalyptic if the badger had VETOED slapped over it.
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:39 am
PLOT TWIST! Under that suit he’s Donald Trump! This was earth all along!!
December 2nd, 2015 at 1:57 pm
@ Perry Armstrong: you get a bonus point for an obscure Doctor Who joke about badgers not involving Vega Nexus.
December 2nd, 2015 at 7:08 pm
@Chinese GSS: That’s a nice scam you got going there, collecting people’s credit card information.
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:06 pm
@anon – Apparently, Joke is on You.
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:56 am
Perhaps if a certain public figure should become the 45th President of the US, it might be time for a wall around China. Forget they already have one, it’s puny! What is it, 15-20 feet high? You call that a Great Wall? Gimme a break. And Chinese GSS would have to pay for it with all those stolen credit card numbers.
December 4th, 2015 at 9:32 am
@Chinese GSS: That’s not a Joke. It’s barely a joke. And why exactly is it on me?
December 5th, 2015 at 2:29 am
2/6 science fiction? Truth in advertising?
December 5th, 2015 at 11:16 pm
2/6 was the price in old money.
December 10th, 2015 at 9:01 am
I read that as her dress became a nightmare. Maybe the artist did too.
December 10th, 2015 at 4:37 pm
@THX: Daylight bleedin’ robbery! You could get a two-bedroom semi and an Austin Princess for that.
December 23rd, 2015 at 3:00 pm
I steadfastly believe that a book called Neuron World should have something brainy on the cover. Come on, a chance for some really awesome neural networks in a blaze of colored light and the best you can do is a man in a welders mask looking at the publishers logo?
January 23rd, 2016 at 5:15 pm
If we are living in a neuron world, does that make her a neuron girl?
January 23rd, 2016 at 5:53 pm
@Dead Stuff: Sadly, the Madonna reference only occurred to me after thinking of Barbie Girl by Aqua. Being sung by Father Lionel Fanthorpe.
I’m a neuron girl, in a neuron world
So fantastic, made of plastic
Come on Lionel, let’s get vinyl
January 23rd, 2016 at 5:53 pm
Or maybe this is her theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKm8Wi7b8jU