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Click for full imageAdam Comments: We have everything you could want with this cover. Giant space-squids, intense aborigonies, rocket ships and WWI German soldiers. Everything, that is, except a clock.
Published 1972
(Average: 5.90 out of 10)
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Adam Comments: We have everything you could want with this cover. Giant space-squids, intense aborigonies, rocket ships and WWI German soldiers. Everything, that is, except a clock.
Published 1972
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June 15th, 2011 at 8:51 am
Yeah, but clocks are sooo linear time.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:09 am
No clock, eh? That’s the sequel you’re thinking of: THE BIG TIMEPIECE.
When this edition was published, they HAD to put a giant squid on the cover, otherwise people would have expected this to be about an Esther Rantzen TV series featuring Sheena Easton. (Yes, I AM showing my age!)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Time_%28TV_series%29]
June 15th, 2011 at 9:09 am
Nice hat! Love the octopus look you’ve got going on there.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:11 am
PS: I can’t quite figure out whether that guy is wearing a spacehelmet or a crocheted shawl. And what IS he doing with his gloved hand?
June 15th, 2011 at 9:48 am
A change war being the kind of war that is set off when you go to break a twenty and all they have are ones.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:57 am
@Phil: They might not have put Sheena on the cover, but they did put Fanny Craddock on there, scowling away. This whole cover screams “What is a bramble?”
June 15th, 2011 at 10:09 am
“Change War”? Are they fighting over petty amounts of money?
June 15th, 2011 at 11:11 am
“Famous saga of the blurb copy war that devastated the language!”
June 15th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Someone get that Colorform off of my book cover!
June 15th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
So they fought a war over re-useable cloth diapers vs disposable Pampers? (guy with symbolic cloth headgear)?
Or tv remotes vs having to get up and do it at the tv? (gloved hand w/apparatus)?
Or the attempt to remove yellow from traffic lights? (colored circles)
Or stopping politicians from using a favorite campaign theme? (snake)
June 15th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Everyone likes a good tentacle caress….
June 16th, 2011 at 12:32 am
Never realised the Thompson Twins fought for the Kaiser first time around.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
If you look into a mirror and chant “BAD BOOK COVERS” three times, this cover will pop out and attempt to kill you.