This book appeared at the shop. I do not know of it, nor the author, but I DO recognise the ship. You know, the little teeny ship in the upper right corner....
Let me help you....
Hmmmmm. Somebody watched cartoons as a kid. The ship is clearly the Starduster from Space Angel, only with added jet engine housings in the wings. Air-breathing jet engines.
In space.
Maybe somebody should have studied his science when he got home, instead of watching cartoons.
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I have a fantastically awesome book cover I need to post for you.
"somebody should have studied his science when he got home, instead of watching cartoons"
Aw, that's no fun. Would've ended up a nerd instead of an artist.
Maybe they're ramjets that use enormous magnetic fields to funnel all the free-floating hydrogen out of a million cubic kilometers of near vacuum! They had to use three of them to make sure they get that extra fifty or so yards of reach on every side.
I'm thinkin' how very, very, VERY hardened the crew section would have to be to withstand the EM field of three Bussard ramscoops right next door.
I wonder if brains would pop like popcorn, or if the protein would just denature like an egg white?
Prob'ly degauss all the 8-tracks, too.
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Vidad, so post it already?
Oh, and Vidad, by hook or by crook, lay your hands on a copy of UBIK, by Phillip K. Dick.
C'mon...you can TRUST this face.
The crew cabin and control room combined are only about 6'x6'x10'. The whole rest of the ship is engine and shielding. The dark bubble at the front is purely decoration, not a window.
Unfortunately, someone forgot all about the 8-tracks. They were loaded into an robotic tape library in a rear compartment. They're blank now, which isn't as big a deal as one might think, because the robot loader doesn't work anymore anyway.
Now jay c, if you had watched cartoons instead of studying your science, you would KNOW that the windows arw windows, and that 6X6X10 represents the size of the crate Taurus the engineer was buried in. (hmph...they could have used the body for reaction mass...) The crew of 3 had surprisingly large digs in the Starduster.
Srsly, Google "Space Angel cartoon" and wallow in the toon coolness. The Alex Toth artwork alone is worth the price of admission. There even extant animation cels available. Pretty, pretty cels.
Of course, I understand that you are fanwanking that misbegotten book cover. Seems the plot involves a man who puts his life in danger to retrieve an over-powered Estes model rocket that his son built. Seems the kid stuck ten #6 motors on the rocket, and it achieved orbit. turns out the cover painting is to scale. If you look at the astronaut's face you can see the tell-tale "Ohhhh, what I'm gonna do to him when I get home.) expression. the end of the story is here: http://www.internet451.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/goofy-time.jpg
...You're welcome for the book(s).
Nerds! ;)
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