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A Heinlein Trio

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'I can haz cheezburger' by Stanley Kubrick.Click for full image

NGpm Comments: Okay, so there’s this face vase thing on the left, but it’s a mushroom (just like what the art director just ate) … and a decaying woman that is scaring the mess out of a cat that lives in Salvador Daliwood.
Published 1980

Includes – The Puppet Masters, Double Star & The Door into Summer
Many thanks to NGpm!

Actually, that cover is a visual feast!I would pick that one up.Neeaaa, I've seen worse.Interesting, but I would still take it on a train.It's somewhere between the awful/good scale.Would not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...I swear, thats my flatmates!Gah... my eyes! They are burning!Good Show Sir.... Good Show! (Average: 6.59 out of 10)
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15 Responses to “A Heinlein Trio”

  1. Weirdmage Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Let’s see if I can deduce what the three stories are about from the cover:

    -Twins brought up by a mushroom. -Looks like they are resting their heads on its shoulders. (Could have gone pervy here…)
    -A woman being eaten by a little alien who lives on her back.
    -And a cat who spends his day looking out a hatch.

    SORTED!

  2. cutmanmike Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 11:04 am

    ok…

  3. SI Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 11:21 am

    They made happy cat sad!

    http://polygondesign.net/cbo/images/happycat.jpg

  4. john Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 12:52 pm

    I had this version, from the Science Fiction book club in the 80s!

  5. Evad Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    Hey now everyone – let’s not get carried away – “You can’t judge a book by its cover” Right? Right?

    Oh God. Who am I kidding? This thing might just spontaneously burst into flames and take us all with it. Someone dig a hole a safe distance from the house.

  6. A.R.Yngve Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Oh my God, why did you have to show that cover? Made me vomit all over my PC…

  7. NGpm Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Thanks to the pop-up joke, in my head I now have the desiccated woman saying “the thing’s hollow, it goes on forever and … it’s full of cats!” A la Dave Bowman in 2001.

    Good show sir!

  8. Kathleen Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    she’s rocking that purple hood though…

  9. A.R.Yngve Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    The cover truly shows how Curiosity Killed the Cat…

  10. SI Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    Kathleen> Yea nice hood. What about the alien attached to her back!?

  11. Angela Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    Yay! I had this one too! Sci Fi Book Club hardcover. The Door Into Summer is still one of my favorite short stories from back then. I have been trying to remember what the other 2 stories were for years now, but I couldn’t remember what the collection was called. The Door Into Summer is about time travel and cryogenics. The main character has cat that goes around to all the doors in their home demanding to be let out as if one of them will lead outside to summer warmth instead of the terrible snow and cold.

    And SI, the alien attached to the back of the Visible Woman is from the Puppet Masters. Sort of an alien symbiote/body snatcher thing. I don’t remember the details, but it creeped me out when I was 12

  12. bob Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 10:07 am

    The third one was Double Star a politician takes ill on the campaign trail and his staff hire an actor to take his place.

  13. A.R.Yngve Says:
    December 20th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    No! WRONG! BAD cover artist! Do it AGAIN!

  14. AA Says:
    August 8th, 2012 at 9:58 am

    I gotta stop looking at these things before bedtime. I have the strangest dreams.

  15. Stevie T Says:
    August 11th, 2012 at 2:58 am

    “A Heinlein Trio”…Isn’t that an unfortunate, if accurate, description of most of his later work….?

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