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Click for full imageMisterBob’s Art Direction: Are there any flowers on Jupiter? Bet they look alien, paint one with the planet behind.
Published 1979
(Average: 7.09 out of 10)
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Are there any flowers on Jupiter? Bet they look alien, paint one with the planet behind.
Published 1979
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April 18th, 2012 at 11:07 am
I guess the author was untied from the couch to pen this paperback?
April 18th, 2012 at 11:11 am
‘Hello, Domino’s Pizza? Can I have one with cheese,rancid banana peel, giant bug and giant teepee-shaped rocket, please?’
April 18th, 2012 at 11:55 am
The tongue-like qualities of that flower are pretty off-putting.
And what’s with the dinky Great Red Spot? It looks like Jupiter is vaguely disappointed.
April 18th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I’m just relieved the ‘theft’ didn’t happen on Uranus.
April 18th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Phallic insect crawling into lush, blood-red flower. Enormous yellowing splotch in the background. Good night, people!
@Alessandra: Jupiter looks like it’s trying to steal a kiss from the logo in the lower right, doesn’t it?
April 18th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
When bananas go bad, they can *really* go bad…
April 18th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Reading the synopsis of the book at Wikipedia I am surprised this cover is so bland.
April 18th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
I’ve never tried to fold a paper rocket, but I imagine this is what it would look like.
Stealing Jupiter, one flesh-eating banana peel at a time.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
In the background, NASA’s future project: The world’s first diesel-powered rocketship.
July 20th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Having actually read this book (fully recommend it, btw), this isn’t TOO far adrift of the actual story content, and might be a way of Getting Crap Under The Radar (to dirty my fingers with a TVTropes term).
SPOILERS…
Jupiter… check
What appears to be the little hydrogen-syphoning probe thing that the aliens use to “steal” Jupiter… check
And a close but not entirely accurate rendition of the alien mating process, as (posthumously!) witnessed about 2/3rds the way through… (they have bodies with 3-way rotational symmetry – hence the triangular rocket – and generate something which could be described as megasperm; independently mobile zygote packets which make their way to and into the partner’s tri-lobed (not 4-lobe, tch) genital opening… Even if one partner is killed by a rogue human during the process. So long as a friendly human helps out…)
Really, bit of a weird scene to choose, but that possibly makes it LESS of a GSS cover?
The true GSS version would include a crappy rendition of the full size aliens themselves (something akin to lion-sized annelids with legs and stalk-eyes), the human protagonists (scantily dressed, which is vaguely justified given they spend so much of the story (unwillingly) naked) with a few poorly-rendered examples of the few random tools they were able to grab during their abduction (a 1970s idea of an iPad, a Moog synth, etc) plus someone firing a laser gun into a computer terminal for good measure, plus and a few of the other species the aliens have picked up along the way (fuzzy pink antennae-monkeys – one of whom might be riding a hydrogen-fusion broomstick, jovian stingray-whales, etc) running towards the reader along a triangular corridor, not quite making eye contact. On the same background.
Or, yknow, just a hooded figure with one starry eye cradling jupiter in their arm.