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What the original James Bond opening was going to show.Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Clairepie Comments: There is a blue boobed lady on the front, that’s how you know it’s good Sci Fi!
Published 1977

Actually, that cover is a visual feast!I would pick that one up.Neeaaa, I've seen worse.Interesting, but I would still take it on a train.It's somewhere between the awful/good scale.Would not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...I swear, thats my flatmates!Gah... my eyes! They are burning!Good Show Sir.... Good Show! (Average: 7.31 out of 10)
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17 Responses to “The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories”

  1. Sophaloaf Says:

    Is this the female equivalent of blue balls?

  2. Smith Says:

    So is she dead? Or just really cold?

    Either way that kid looks very unhappy about the whole situation.

  3. THX 1138 Says:

    The Queen of Hands Like Shovels and Janet Jackson Super Bowl Tributes.

  4. L.B. Says:

    That baby was what caught my attention (that and the space sheep). Very creepy stare.

  5. Sneaky Burrito Says:

    Why does the baby look more realistic than the woman? I’m not even referring to the whole blue skin thing. Maybe it’s because the woman doesn’t have a forehead?

  6. fred Says:

    Sure it isn’t The Queen of Hair and Darkness?

  7. David Cowie Says:

    Where’s CS Lewis? Bring back Lewis!

  8. Don Hilliard Says:

    Apparently this was the artist’s audition for the Book of British Birds: he wanted to show he could do a bluetit.

    I’ll get me coat…

  9. Sophaloaf Says:

    I’m surprised no one said anything about Avatar….I guess that was SO..like…three years ago.

  10. Herm Says:

    @Sneaky Burrito: I think the baby looks more real and three-dimensional because the shadows and contrast are deeper. It’s ok on the blue lady’s hands but bad on her face, making it look flat.

    I only notice this because it’s something I’m bad at in my own art…

  11. Claire Says:

    @Don. Shakes head.

  12. Jaouad Says:

    Black-eyed baby is single-craniumedly carrying the weight of those jugs. No wonder it has Teh Evil Stare.

  13. Jerk of all Trades Says:

    Story is something about settlers on an alien world with no life and a baby of theirs goes missing, causing them to suspect there might be life after all, ~woo-ooo-oooo!~ That has totally never been done before!

    I guess the blue lady with the stars is supposed to represent the possible alien presence that takes human babies for No Good Reason (Especially since, as having evolved in two distant star systems, they probably can’t even eat them).

  14. Rachel J Says:

    @Jerk of all Trades. I’ve read this, and it’s actually better than you think. (As I recall, anyway.)

  15. Anti-Sceptic Says:

    Careful, or the baby will drop into space, or rather out to space….err I mean down to space….oh forget it, don’t drop the baby!

  16. Sam Says:

    I didn’t realise Poul Anderson was a sci-fi writer in addition to being the acclaimed director of Mognolia and Thore Will Be Blood.

  17. Green Says:

    Adding Dolly to the cover improves the art, somehow.

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