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Carolyn Comments: Spectacle boobs on a vegetable man’s head and a fried egg on the right (or is that a sun?) – just what Arthur C Clarke ordered!
Published 1969
Carolyn Comments: Spectacle boobs on a vegetable man’s head and a fried egg on the right (or is that a sun?) – just what Arthur C Clarke ordered!
Published 1969
August 2nd, 2016 at 11:45 am
Clearly, the naked lady is on…
THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS GUY
August 2nd, 2016 at 11:55 am
So they’ve turned Noted Science Fiction Author Arthur C. Clark into a potato with boobs for eyes.
I’m sure he’d be flattered.
August 2nd, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Let’s see John Barrowman cosplay that image at a Comic Con.
August 2nd, 2016 at 2:12 pm
More like The Bother Side of the Sky.
August 2nd, 2016 at 2:16 pm
“Published 1969”
Well, of course.
August 2nd, 2016 at 2:36 pm
“unknown artist”
Well, of course.
August 2nd, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Forget the other side of the sky, let’s see what’son the other side of glasses! *chortle*
August 2nd, 2016 at 5:11 pm
@fred: You win everything for that comment.
I think I’ll stick with my own sunglasses instead of what that guy’s wearing. I mean, really, wearing part of a mannequin on your head? That is the epitome of bad and questionable taste.
August 2nd, 2016 at 6:53 pm
Well I guess we know what’s on his mind.
April 21st, 2017 at 8:47 pm
The bother is that there’s a whole field of those plants, and it’s come harvest time!
April 22nd, 2017 at 3:39 pm
It’s amazing what scientists have done with genetically modified plants.
July 5th, 2017 at 5:02 am
“spectacle boobs on a veggie man’s head… dum de dum de dum…
ARTHUR’S SIDE OF SKYYY, WITH FRIED EGGS…..”
November 12th, 2019 at 8:48 am
Too late, the artist realized he had mixed up the photos, and used Isaac Asimov’s face as model for the cover.
February 15th, 2020 at 7:54 pm
‘My eyes are up here’.
This is obviously the sequel to ‘Boxing Helena’ where the multiple amputee has a nose and mouth grafted onto her abdomen and has to pose in front of a Banksie.
February 15th, 2020 at 11:09 pm
@ARY: It’s fine — Asimov would have LOVED having naked boobs on his head (he had them on his mind a lot), and Clarke wouldn’t.
@Tat: I dunno, this looks too weird even for Banksy.
February 16th, 2020 at 5:08 am
@GSS ex-noob: as you say, naked women on the cover of an Arthur C Clarke short story collection leads to the thought “Have you got the _wrong_ SF writer, buddy!” No idea what the plant-head thing has to do with anything: perhaps human-veggie blends were considered an SF trope for a while and just lacked the staying power of robots and rocket ships? (We did have a jet pilot with a bouquet for a head a few weeks ago, IIRC)
Can’t quite tell what’s going on with the Corgi in the logo: is it biting the hand that feeds it?
February 17th, 2020 at 11:22 pm
@Bruce: I think the Corgi is biting a book. Presumably it’s supposed to be fetching it for you, but it looks more like an illustration of what caused the damage to the upper right corner.
I suppose in 1969, ACC’s orientation wasn’t widely known, and even if it was, it wouldn’t have mattered as this seems to be “generic surreal cover what indicates sci-fi” as taught at UAI. And it doubly wouldn’t have mattered since ACC didn’t have any sex in his stories, especially at that time. It was all manly men and super-science.