Sep 25
Click for full imageVincent’s Art Direction: So here’s what I’m thinking. A man and a woman in a landfill. I want the woman tastefully nude, so have the man covering her naughty bits even though they’re standing about twenty feet apart. Lastly, have an army of giant preying mantises coming over the hill.
Published 1976
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September 25th, 2012 at 9:21 am
I like to think the guy is directing some sort of post apocalyptic Broadway dance number.
September 25th, 2012 at 10:32 am
“Either we’re really small or something’s getting bigger!”
September 25th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Which story is this supposedly depicting? ‘The Mantis Who Murdered Mohammed’? Is his left arm preternaturally long? He seems to be attempting foreplay from twenty feet away. To allow this he has absorbed his right foot and forearm. But not his clothes.
September 25th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
“They Don’t Make Life Like They Used To” would be my guess. No giant mantises though there are some insectoid heads; no nudity though there is semi-nudity. All limbs were of normal length in the story, as far as I can recall.
September 25th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I have that book! Awesome stories. Awful cover.
September 25th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
“In this volume we’ve assembled all the great short fiction of Alfred Bester. In the other volume is the not-so-great stuff.”
September 26th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Bester writes some of the smartest SF around, but we know the SF market is made up of people who just like giant insects, so let’s put some on the cover and hope they’re not disappointed when they discover there aren’t any in the book. They’ll only make the discovery after they’ve bought it, so it doesn’t matter.
September 26th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
The largest praying mantises are females. Your whole sacrificial maiden thing may be about to backfire, Tastefully Flailing Arm Guy!
(Accuracy demands that I mention that the post-coital snacking of female mantises on their mates does not happen all, or even most, of the time. See Snopes for details.)
September 27th, 2012 at 4:06 am
Beware the clothes-eating giant space mantids!
September 27th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
“Jill, I think if you do the Watusi and I do a Luau they will be highly entertained and not want to eat us….Plus, you should take your clothes off for extra effect.”
September 28th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
There by his right knee. Is that the head of the robot maid from the Jetsons?