Oct 09
Click for full imageBibliomancer’s Art Direction: My name is Bibliomancer. I’m from 2015 in the future. I want a cover with a future-retro Amy Winehouse using a space music ghetto blaster to kill some dudes … and a satyr! Don’t make the art very good. I need it to win a ten-star rating on a website of terrible sci-fi cover art. Why are you looking at me like that?
Published 1961
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(Average: 8.33 out of 10)
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October 9th, 2015 at 11:37 am
Wow, an unsheathed belt axe just swinging right next to that perfect thigh…why does one need an axe in a high tech society anyway?
October 9th, 2015 at 11:54 am
Mr Tumnus always had it bad!
October 9th, 2015 at 12:39 pm
She looks very, very plastic. That being so, she’s probably a highly sought-after collectable.
Are those two gents in the background disembarking from a boat?
October 9th, 2015 at 2:31 pm
“Ma’am… stop playing that… crunk… it’s awful… can’t think… arrrghh…”
October 9th, 2015 at 2:44 pm
The other cover in the double.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ACQjJeHJfBQ/UmVnj13dE5I/AAAAAAAABPY/9x_B8YMzDqY/s1600/Leiber+1961+-+The+Mind+Spider.jpg
The Big Time BIG TIME
https://craigbaird.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-big-time.jpg
The Green Millennium 1954 Lion Library PB – google for some awesome 50’s cheese.
October 9th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
The funny thing is, all three covers are reasonably accurate accounts of the contents.
October 9th, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Confusion about the unknown artist:
From isfdb:
The cover artists are not credited. EMSH is on the cover of The Mind Spider, lower right corner. The ACE Image Library credits Emshwiller with the cover for The Big Time as well [looks more like Valigursky].
BTW, the original story and art from Galaxy Magazine are available on the Internet Archive. Greta Forzane/Amy Winehouse looks identical to this cover but the original art is credited to (Virgil) Finlay.
October 9th, 2015 at 6:26 pm
I realize this is nitpicking compared to all the rest of the glorious cheesiness of this cover, but her torso is way too skinny for her internal organs. It would seem you are correct, @DSWBT: she IS made of plastic.
October 9th, 2015 at 7:36 pm
@Anna T.—not only plastic, but magnetic! I mean, judging from the angle of the axe.
October 9th, 2015 at 7:48 pm
@BC: ‘I seem to have a vacuum tube radio attracted to my midsection, good sir. Pray, could you see to helping a lady remove it?’
‘Well, well, well, ma’am…let’s have a goosey ‘ere…’
October 9th, 2015 at 10:12 pm
What do you think? Did she get it from her boyfriend, or is she merely following the crowd?
October 9th, 2015 at 10:58 pm
LADIES, ARE YOU BOTHERED BY FAUNS?
The Faun-icator 3000® delivers powerful ultrasonic frequencies, disorienting invading fauns while you don’t hear a thing. The unpleasant sound ricochets off walls and other solid objects, neutralising fauns on the spot. Also effective on random men.
October 10th, 2015 at 12:32 am
Next week: Sheena Easton really plays that axe!
October 10th, 2015 at 12:40 am
Califaunication.
October 10th, 2015 at 12:55 am
Satyr-day Night Fever
October 10th, 2015 at 5:11 am
@B’Mancer—;-)
Satyrs!
October 12th, 2015 at 8:32 am
Faun: “Not… not Rush Limbaugh… gack… *choke*”
October 12th, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Pan-dora?
October 12th, 2015 at 11:09 pm
@Scott B: “Take that, Pan Books!”
October 13th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Hang on… that’s a theremin. So Giles Goat-Boy is being concussed with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrLVpV-TADo
November 11th, 2015 at 2:58 am
Phwoar! Check out her axe-wound!
December 6th, 2015 at 10:28 pm
Needs a ‘piercings’ tag, kind wizard.
December 7th, 2015 at 3:07 pm
These two have been shopping at the same Radio Shack.
December 7th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
@11, BC: at least they weren’t STEALING from that Radio Shack! 😉
December 7th, 2015 at 8:13 pm
@DS—oops, my bad! You were all over that one way back when.
December 7th, 2015 at 10:53 pm
@DSWBT – Done
July 5th, 2021 at 11:52 am
♪ They tried to get me to go to Skylab. ♪
♪ But I said no, no, no. ♪
July 5th, 2021 at 3:45 pm
One thing bugs me about these old covers:
The tech interfaces often look dated even by the standards of their own time.
Computers that resemble radio sets, dials instead of buttons, clunky antennae… it’s as if the genre was dominated by people with a fixation on amateur radio.
July 22nd, 2023 at 5:11 pm
Amy Winehouse when she hit The Big Time.
And we saw what it did to her. 🙁