{"id":10578,"date":"2011-08-09T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:21:23","slug":"fish-barrel-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/fish-barrel-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish. Barrel. Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never seen these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodshowsir.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">god-awful science fiction book covers<\/a>, you&#8217;ll quickly understand why this website will have a long, long list of candidates for mockery:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Joan-Vinge-Snow-Queen-cover-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Joan Vinge - Snow Queen cover\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Joan-Vinge-Snow-Queen-cover-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Joan-Vinge-Snow-Queen-cover-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Joan-Vinge-Snow-Queen-cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Kelly Comments<\/strong>: Considering that later editions have an absolutely gorgeous cover by Michael Whelan, I\u2019m always a bit horrified to see the travesty on my own copy of the book. It looks like a poster for some kind of low-budget 70s bondage. My poor eyes!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Lois McMaster Bujold, who said &#8220;SF covers more dire than my own. Some of these even make me feel better . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never seen these god-awful science fiction book covers, you&#8217;ll quickly understand why this website will have a long, long list of candidates for mockery: Kelly Comments: Considering that later editions have an absolutely gorgeous cover by Michael Whelan, I\u2019m always a bit horrified to see the travesty on my own copy of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28],"tags":[102,86,85],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-art","tag-criticism","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10582,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}