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Click for full imageFrank Comments: My reaction was “It’s a trap!” In the interest of repeating the experiment, today I showed this book to another volunteer in our organization and asked her “Male or female?” She got different answers for different sides of the neck line too. I think she found this somewhat distressing.
Published 1971
(Average: 8.00 out of 10)
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August 8th, 2012 at 9:38 am
It’s a terrible cover even without your transphobia to go with it.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Whatever, she’s FABULOUS.
Also, talk about your strategically placed ferns.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
My first thought was “Cher”.
August 8th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
The body says woman. The face says Leonard Nimoy.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
The problem isn’t the sex of the face’s owner so much as that the woman has a headless body and someone else is looking over her right shoulder to see where her bonce has gone. The head went so fast it left the green wig in mid-air, to fall on her bodiless chum’s head at a peculiar angle. Or maybe his head arrived out of nowhere and knocked hers flying, in a sort of shop-dummy marbles game. And what’s with her luminous shoe?
August 8th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
@CBrachyrhynchos. My thought exactly. A missing sketch from the Sonny & Cher Show, maybe?
August 8th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Dana International? No, Dana Intergalactic!
August 8th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
That poor N in starsongs is going to be crushed into an I.
August 8th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
@Jami that was good. Gave me quite a chuckle.
August 8th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Moonferns? Shouldn’t those be behind her? err him?
August 9th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Looks kind of like a paintover from before the era of Photoshop. I wish I could find a better photo; that would tell one way or another.
August 9th, 2012 at 6:39 am
Also, you would do better to speculate about how many pieces this cover-dweller was patched together from, rather than her sex or gender.
August 10th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Does blue foliage grow FROM her crotch? Kinda heavy on the symbolism, or what?
August 25th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Agreed, Lilacsigil, Tat Wood & J.O.A.T.! I’d be happy about having a trans/ intersexed person on the cover (Very Silverberg). But the cover is just terrible. I can’t tell if it’s strategically placed foliage, part of the being, or just a close and personal friend.
In any case, I love Silverberg, so I will hunt it down & read it anyway.
February 4th, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Butter Face!!