Apr 15
Click for full imageArt Direction: Long ago an old wise man gave me an ancient remedy to find my inner soul. I looked into a mirror and my face was elongated, like in one of those wacky mirrors at a funfair. I couldn’t help but notice the four screws of enlightenment, it made me cry. Turned out I’d just taken LSD, but what the hell, it would make an awesome cover!
Published 1979
(Average: 8.68 out of 10)
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April 15th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Yes Bob, this cover DOES make you look fat.
April 15th, 2011 at 10:24 am
Dolph Lundgren in a pressurised container?
April 15th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Looks like Arnold Schwartzenegger’s crying in fron of a funhouse mirror…
April 15th, 2011 at 10:51 am
I agree, Bibliotropic.
“It’s not a too-mah!”
April 15th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Why the screws? Is it supposed to be some sort of mirror? A yellow mirror?
April 15th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Don’t you hate it when your upper head cries and it gets in your lower mouth?
April 15th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I have this book! I think he looks like Action Man, or possibly one of the characters from Thunderbirds.
The screws make this quite a clever concept, I think. It might be a mirror, or it might be a part of the shiny spaceship that we can assume this character travels in. I can’t for the life of me remember whether there is a spaceship in this book. Or a mirror. Or a tear.
I have made it through several decades without having to say the name “Algis Budrys” out loud. Like “A.E.van Vogt”, it’s one of those names I THINK I know how to pronounce, but I can’t be sure.
So much uncertainty!
April 15th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Perhaps if you speak the name out loud, you would reach enlightenment.
And then your face would telescope.
April 15th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Is that Tom Berenger?
April 15th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
…I have two faces..and I WILL scream!..
April 15th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
The artist decided that the unexpected dimension was width. I for one would never have expected so much of it.
April 15th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Maybe if you unfasten the screws, the cover of the book comes off.
April 16th, 2011 at 4:18 am
Is this guy crying because his face is stretched out?
April 17th, 2011 at 6:43 am
“NOBODY expects the Unexpected Dimension. Our chief weapon is
surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear
and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear,
surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the
Tom Berenger…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our
weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.”
June 25th, 2011 at 1:56 am
The unexpected glass door? *whump*