Jul 30
Click for full imageGK’s Art Direction: I need this cover by 5 o’clock! Just go out and take a picture of something!
Published 1969
AHHH! Kill it! Kill it!
Many thanks to GK!
(Rating: 9.00 out of 10)
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GK’s Art Direction: I need this cover by 5 o’clock! Just go out and take a picture of something!
Published 1969
AHHH! Kill it! Kill it!
Many thanks to GK!
(Rating: 9.00 out of 10) Loading ...
July 30th, 2010 at 9:14 am
I would definitely file that cover under OTHER FANTASIES
July 30th, 2010 at 9:30 am
is that maybe a voodoo doll.
what would anyone have against a parrot?
July 30th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Haha I love this a lot.
@Adam Roberts (if he sees this) Don’t you just wish NMA used this for a cover?
But wow… Che Guevara looks nothing like his pictures!
July 30th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Inexplicably, the new line of Bad Acid Trip Action Man figures wasn’t selling as well as Palitoy had hoped.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Is that a vulture’s head on an action figure?
It’s supposed to be a metaphor about the dehumanizing effect of war, I suppose.
Or… a metaphor about trying to make a book cover on a shoestring budget.
July 30th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Clearly a doll’s uniform, judging from the size of the buttons, which I’m sure makes it more Meaningful or something.
And it looks like a claw, but it’s positioned like a beak… I don’t know. I’m stumped. But if I were sweet Polly Oliver Parrot, I’d dodge the draft, that’s for sure.
July 30th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies!
‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig!
‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
July 30th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
SI: @Adam Roberts (if he sees this) Don’t you just wish NMA used this for a cover?
God, yes! Not just the green-olive-for-an-eye beaky fowl in a uniform, but the way the first letter of the title looks like it has been chewed by some frenzied reader.
That would be awesome on pretty much any of my novels. I feel confident James Lovegrove feels the same way about his novels.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
haha Actually I was just finishing off NMA today. In the final few pages, even though I don’ t think you intended it, I had the above chicken man in my mind as the narrator.
Hilarious stuff.
Age of Odin? James I don’t think you need to make a new cover anymore. You know you want it!
July 31st, 2010 at 12:36 am
It’s not just the chicken. It’s the way that his open jacket clearly reveals that he’s made of *cardboard*.
I don’t know if they were trying to make some deep and subtle point about the cheapness of life and the certainty that all soldiers will be cowards in the end, or if they were just cheap bastards. I suspect the latter.
This is certainly the only war cover that’s ever made me laugh out loud.
July 31st, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Today’s victory is tomorrow’s defeat sounds like the motto for this year’s Detroit Lions.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:51 pm
“Polly wants a uniform for a doll! Craak!”
Anyone else think using initials when your surname is O’Something is a bad idea?
Well, at least his (her?) name wasn’t Bartholomew..
And what is an “ace double”?
August 1st, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Re: Evad’s comment
Have you tried applying a stun gun to Polly, in a attempt at revival…?
(After all, some models put out 40,000 Volts, as I seem to recall)
As for Anon’s question about “Ace Doubles”, they were a creation of Ace books in the U.S, and were 2 novels published back to back, in one large paperback…
However, to read the books, you had to turn the book upside down to read each novel, as they were printed upside down, relative to each other.
As a result, said “double” had 2 front covers…
August 16th, 2010 at 2:26 am
New posts always get a smile, but I laughed so hard at this one that my neighbours left for Toronto.