Jun 30
Click for full imageDorian’s Art Direction: What do you mean, there are no scantily clad women in the story? No werewolf? No heaps of treasure? No weird monster consisting entirely of teeth and wings? Ah, who cares? No-one ever looks at these things anyway.
Published 1993
(Rating: 6.43 out of 10)
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June 30th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Frank Drebin: “Hey, is that your book cover or did you just throw up in the seat next to you?”
June 30th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Dr. Rumack: I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
June 30th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Even its mood is wrong. The story is an increasingly desperate madcap rush from beginning to end, full of things falling apart, not a moment’s rest for the EPA bureaucrat.
The cover… the cover would actually go quite well with some of Liz Williams’s Detective Inspector Chen stories. Shame they wouldn’t be written for another fifteen years.
I suspect this is really a case of publisher confusion. The story’s *so* different from everything else Turtledove has written that they just didn’t know how to cover it.
June 30th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
I couldn’t really make out what was going on with this cover, as the photo is blurry. Then I Googled for clearer images…and I still can’t make out what’s going on. This is what the word “mess” was invented for.
June 30th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
No…no, I’m pretty sure that’s just a regular dump.
June 30th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
You can see more going on here, not that it helps
http://tirpetz1.fortunecity.com/authorpages/turtledove/novels/caseofthetoxicspelldumpshickman.jpg
June 30th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Is this what you get if you lick the cover of The Martian Way
June 30th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Ah, yes, a toxic spell dump. I had a bad case of that after I ate at Gandalf’s Curry House and Shisha Lounge.
June 30th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Love the ‘spell dump” font. And if that is from 1993 that must be about 10 billions words ago for Turtledove.
July 1st, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I had a Grey Goo Apocolypse once, but let’s not go there.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
“Toxic Spell Dump” is a great name for a rock band.
July 18th, 2011 at 1:55 am
The censorship sheep are on standby.
August 29th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
…”Toxic Spell Dump”?
I don’t think it’s the *cover art* that’s bad here.