Jun 13
Dave F’s Art Direction: My parents DIED in the Lunar Brittlestar/Lichen wars! Don’t you tell ME what makes a scary book cover!
Published 1971
Dave F’s Art Direction: My parents DIED in the Lunar Brittlestar/Lichen wars! Don’t you tell ME what makes a scary book cover!
Published 1971
June 13th, 2016 at 10:30 am
I told you we shouldn’t have had those Swiss organise the Trooping of the Colour.
June 13th, 2016 at 11:26 am
Is that a marble on the tank or it earth very far away ?
June 13th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Giants: 0
Robots: ?
Humans: 1
Brains: 0
Demons: 0
Wars: 1
June 13th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
That’s one hell of a hood ornament.
If it’s Laumer and there is a tank on the cover then you know it’s a BOLO book.
Unlike this version, which definitely doesn’t have a tank. Or a hood ornament.
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June 13th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
The last time we saw this book, it had something that might possibly have been a demon, but neither a giant robot, a human brain, nor a war. Be off with you, blurb!
June 13th, 2016 at 3:43 pm
Despite what the blurb claims, I see nothing particularly human or cerebral about that whatever-it-is inside the skull. For cause of death, I’m thinking . . . brain parasites? Alien brain parasites?
Probably.
June 13th, 2016 at 5:46 pm
Lampreys and grapes in a human skull fired from a tank. Heston Blumenthal’s still going strong, I see.
June 13th, 2016 at 6:01 pm
The best way to prepare space lampreys—a lá skull pot! Just heat those babies up over a thermonuclear tank warhead, and serve with a garnish of demon.
June 13th, 2016 at 6:49 pm
STABBING A WONTON, RUTH’S HAIR FRIGHTENED OHM, A NEWT MISS
June 15th, 2016 at 11:08 am
The sideways-firing tank was withdrawn after strategists realised the possibility of “going the other way”. It is still, however, used in the Alien universe.
June 15th, 2016 at 7:55 pm
It’s rare to see the artist’s signature so brazenly placed near the CENTER of the painting.
June 16th, 2016 at 3:21 am
There is yet another way this blurb fails…”Giant robots with human brains fight the demons’ war” makes it seem like the robots are fighting on the demons’ behalf, doing their dirty work for them, though I assume the author means they’re fighting each other. If they really are on the same side, who is the enemy? It must be the tentacle thing in the skull!
….And would you consider a robot with a brain a cyborg instead? Food for thought.
June 19th, 2016 at 10:00 am
According to the Goodreads description, the aliens are harvesting human brains so assuming the aliens are the demons of the title, humans areindeed fighting wars for the demons. Either that or the aliens are just after a tasty snack. Still a rubbish blurb, though.
July 18th, 2016 at 10:17 pm
Tanks for the memories.
August 24th, 2016 at 2:42 am
Must be Hungarian. There’s eels coming out of it.
August 28th, 2016 at 5:57 pm
A rare glimpse into Donald Trump’s mind.
August 18th, 2020 at 1:27 am
robots…humans….demons…all that’s missing is oreos, right? They ARE a life form, I’m convinced.