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Click for full imageFrank Comments: “A Startling Story Of Science At War With Alien Life-Forms”, indeed. Don’t just use the rockets to scare it off, climb out on the hull and shoot your hand weapon at its head.
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April 20th, 2016 at 9:32 am
My knowledge of Kansas is…
1) Dorothy didn’t think she was there anymore
2) Flat farmland?
But I am fairly sure that scene ain’t Kansas. Maybe the poor little alien dude is called Kansas. It looks like he is having a bad day.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:42 am
Hell, with autopilot what it is these days all you need to do is land the things.
Also, this was the basis for the film They Came from Beyond Space, so The Gods Hated the UK too.
April 20th, 2016 at 11:46 am
‘Earthling! Take me aboard your craft, that I might experience this “hentai” media firsthand!’
Wasn’t it Kansas that tried to outlaw teaching of Evolution a decade or two ago? Perhaps the title should be The Gods Hate Kansas, But They Hate Darwin More.
April 20th, 2016 at 11:47 am
Nota Bene, the titles top to bottom run
The Wild, Wild Women
Savage Bride
Little Men
I suppose the men were never able to calm down the women, even within wedlock?
April 20th, 2016 at 1:01 pm
This is what happens when you fail to have your alien spayed or neutered.
April 20th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
Having been to Kansas on many occasions I can assure you that the title is true. And having been in Topeka on a Saturday night I can also assure you that most of the locals would welcome a dilemma such as that depicted on the cover. Even poorly depicted
April 20th, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Indeed indeed. Let’s keep those Nazi references reserved for such deserving fare as “Ass Goblins of Auschwitz”. The cover of which is not upon this site, but c’mon! The mere title almost deserves a spot, deliberate satire or no.
April 20th, 2016 at 4:27 pm
If you are going to re-enact the giant squid battle from ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ in outer space, at least throw in a meteor shower.
The Gods hate Kansas.
I hate Kansas.
Therefore I am a God. The God of Kansan Logic.
April 20th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
I think the publisher accidentally added an H in front of ‘ate’ when they were working up the cover.
April 20th, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Flushed with the success of ‘Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors’, the same team adapted this for the big screen. Except that Kansas was beyond their budget, so it became Dorset. Which meant that the title had to change to something more… alluring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMyB_h56-g
(You don’t need to watch the whole thing, just the gaping gulf between the costly-looking titles and the rest. Or, if you’re patient, the way they wheel on Michael Gough at the end as if he’s the most expensive thing in the film (which he may have been) rather than an explosion or model-effect).
April 20th, 2016 at 5:23 pm
TENTACLE RAPING IS KILLING SPACE TRAVEL.
And it’s illegal.
April 20th, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Can “science” be at war with alien life-forms? Is gravity tag teaming with string theory?
April 20th, 2016 at 6:02 pm
@fred: Coming soon to theatres . . . Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . . . IN SPACE!”
Man, Hollywood’s really run out of ideas.
April 20th, 2016 at 9:32 pm
@Anna: Actually, you’ll find that a league is 5.5 kilometres. Multiplication gives 110,000 kilometres under the sea…which takes you out about 10 earth diameters, a goodly bit into space indeed.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:29 pm
Interestingly, the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states of the USA is located in Kansas. If you are ever driving cross-country and feel tempted to stray from I-70, thinking perhaps, “Wow, it would be cool to spend the night in the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states of the USA,” don’t. It won’t be.
April 21st, 2016 at 1:25 am
A Dental Story of Science At War With Alien Lip Ulcers
THE GODS HATE CANKERS
A Seed Story of Science At War With Alien Horse Chestnuts
THE GODS HATE CONKERS
A Startling Story of Stuff At War With Alien Life-Forms from Sarnath
BOKRUG HATES ME
April 21st, 2016 at 3:43 am
Just for the record, 20,000 leagues is how far the Nautilus traveled total, cruising around the ocean for months and months, not going straight down.
That said, I think 20,000 Leagues in Space is a terrific idea. Someone should get right on that script. Just as soon as he/she finishes re-reading Little Men.
April 21st, 2016 at 4:18 am
Paint-Ball … in space!
April 21st, 2016 at 4:23 am
I’d just like to ask Frank, this photo’s contributor, whether the book was actually levitating in the shop.
April 21st, 2016 at 4:46 am
@Tat Wood – I think the book was horizontal and Frank was levitating above it.
April 21st, 2016 at 5:37 am
Behind every middling sci-fi novel there’s little men.
April 21st, 2016 at 10:06 am
Say what you like, but Americans know marketing. “Monarch Books”… a book fit for a king!
Monarch Books
Archduke Books
Galactic Emperor Books
Supreme Ruler Of the Universe Books
Moa Ha Haaa! Books
April 21st, 2016 at 10:08 am
When in Kansas, never stop to pick up hitchhikers.
April 21st, 2016 at 5:17 pm
It’s the missing frame from the Zapruder film! Now we know where that mysterious head shot came from.
April 21st, 2016 at 6:50 pm
@DSWBT: I believe the “20,000 Leagues” part of the title referred to how far they travelled aboard the Nautilus, not how deep she went.
April 22nd, 2016 at 1:22 am
@Tat Wood: Friends of the Library book sale. Box of “<$1 paperbacks" on its way to our bargain room. I go through such looking for science fiction because the science fiction section manager wants to see such paperbacks with an eye to finding some for sale in the main room. So this shoot was with the box propped up at a slight angle and the book atop the other old paperbacks. At least I think it was, it's been three or four weeks ago.
April 22nd, 2016 at 1:23 am
@Frank: the backdrop does have a certain aesthetic appeal to it. 🙂
April 26th, 2016 at 11:03 pm
@DSWBT: That was intended. Lots of other (not science) fiction in there, many with lurid covers.
E.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/10732090124 is like the cover I recall for “The Wicked, Wicked Women” seen at top of frame.
April 26th, 2016 at 11:47 pm
@Frank: your taste is impeccable. These wouldn’t be Kansas women, would they be? 😉
April 30th, 2016 at 12:34 am
@DSWBT: No idea. The young lady from whom I learned this taste is from California but I think grew up in Texas before returning to California.
We’ve been going through some more books from that particular donation and have lately found several of the Carter Brown mystery series of paperbacks as published by Signet and featuring the cover artwork of Robert McGinniss. Some nice examples of that sort of thing here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/sets/72157623002761081/page2
December 5th, 2019 at 5:04 am
This fantastic cover was, with gratitude and respect to our compatriots at Good Show Sir, discussed on this week’s episode of the Cover My Ass podcast:
https://www.covermyasscast.com/e/49-the-innsmouth-look/
After a hapless astronaut from Kansas commits an intergalactic faux-pas, the offended alien race brings down the wrath of their elder gods that make earth’s great old ones pale by comparison.
December 5th, 2019 at 3:11 pm
@Khaki – Good Show Sir!