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Click for full image Joachim Comments: I love most of Richard Powers’ surrealist covers — but, this one… Surrealism exponentially cheapened with a gigantic looming OUTRAGEOUSLY pink girl with strategically placed element models and a pistolled cowboy with a space suit and matching pink gloves and boots… And throw in some little men with spears, a spaceship and scattered cacti for good effect.
Published 1955
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August 8th, 2011 at 10:11 am
I don’t believe it!
August 8th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Madonna called. She’d like her bra back.
August 8th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
THX 1138 stole my gag.
August 8th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
“The invaders of Earth were beautiful … a different science-fiction novel!”
Judging by this cover, a different kind of “beautiful” too.
August 8th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
A very phallic spaceship that, despite obviously flying away, still has the pointiest part pointed straight between her legs.
August 8th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
“Toy Story 8: The Final Frontier”
August 8th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Jami’s right! That space ship is trying to see up her skirt! Well if you could call it a skirt… more like a belt to my eyes!
August 8th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
http://io9.com/5223300/could-the-girls-from-planet-5-be-the-best-novel-ever
http://crookedtimber.org/2009/04/20/the-girls-from-planet-5/
Un-frikken-believable.
August 8th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
This reminds me of the Tom and Jerry cartoons from the sixties. Maybe that cowboy is Tex Avery.
August 8th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I like the term “femaliens” used on the io9 web site.
August 9th, 2011 at 1:21 am
I think those element symbols are supposed to growing out of her breasts. It would explain why her girls are at 90 degrees from the torso without so much as a bra.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:22 am
I dunno about you guys, but as a male, I like the other cover MUCH better
August 10th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Are these titular (um) ‘girls’ too lazy to name their own planet? “We’ll just call it Planet… 5.”
August 11th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
@SI – I also just realized that the phallic ship is – um – well – ejaculating another phallic looking ship, though judging from the vapor trail line it’s cu – coming from a rather odd place.
So we’ve got a pink girl sprouting what in the 60s will be the typical wall decorations. (Actually I know a go-kart racing place that has something similar on lamp posts in their parking lot that flash different colors.) Wearing a metal lampshade and carrying a smoking spike covered thingie. A Tex Avery style space cowboy. A phallic ship coming out of a phallic ship. (Phaliception?) Tiny orange people looking up giant pink space girl’s skirt. And a whole lotta orange.
You sure this is a book from the 50s and not someone’s visions while dropping acid?
August 24th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
It looks like Tex there was trying to use his psyonic powers on her, but 50 foot tall woman had a machine that could capturer it and redirect the power…..to the moon?
He’s gonna have a whole world of hurt when she decides to use her spear on him!