Jan 17
Click for full imageAlice Comments: WTF is this one about? Read the back cover.
Published 1952
(Average: 8.05 out of 10)
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Alice Comments: WTF is this one about? Read the back cover.
Published 1952
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January 17th, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Edward Mandrakeroothands.
January 17th, 2017 at 12:54 pm
WTF indeed. The story seems to be something about Tibetan Masters on Mars.
At the end of the blurb, it says:
… Wherein bodies are just a vehicule for the carrying out of the plan.
I bet the artist read plant instead of plan and must have ingested some bizarre plants himself to come with such a cover!
January 17th, 2017 at 12:55 pm
Looks like she is wearing either a Transparent Cloak or an Invisible Cloak of Non Invisibility. It’s hard to tell them apart.
January 17th, 2017 at 1:03 pm
He’s like an upside-down Ent.
January 17th, 2017 at 1:16 pm
Another GMO disaster. Will we ever learn?
January 17th, 2017 at 1:21 pm
Is that an advert for a pockets shop in the background? Both of them could invest in some pockets.
Re. blurb, an invention more powerful than the television? Goodness, are you INSANE?
January 17th, 2017 at 1:24 pm
‘Little of Burks’s sf was reprinted in book form, the most notable exception being The Great Mirror (Summer 1942 Science Fiction Quarterly; 1952); in this hyperbolic tale, Tibetans who control Matter Transmission and various ESP powers mysteriously steal, from the Martians they have been visiting on Mars, a mirror capable of focusing on anything its user wills.’
Why, those ingrates! Today’s post is compelling me to harrumph ever so much.
January 17th, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Ah yes, noted author Arthur J. Burkes-Pockets.
January 17th, 2017 at 2:29 pm
Tree-mendous, eh readers?
January 17th, 2017 at 2:41 pm
@THX: Wood you stop it with the lame puns? 😉
January 17th, 2017 at 3:30 pm
@THX, DS—I wish you folks would branch out a bit in your humor. I think you’re barking up the wrong tree.
January 17th, 2017 at 3:30 pm
This cover is a nice inversion of the old Daphne and Apollo myth, methinks.
January 17th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
So if The Great Mirror is about Tibetan lamas, do Andean llamas star in The Good But Not Great Mirror?
January 17th, 2017 at 3:34 pm
Is that supposed to be her coif, or the sun caught in a heat shimmer?
January 17th, 2017 at 3:45 pm
Whatever that “ting” in her hand is, it seems to be melting her right boob.
January 17th, 2017 at 3:49 pm
If they made anti-marijuana propaganda in 1920’s, this is what it would look like.
January 17th, 2017 at 4:09 pm
When cosplay goes wrong.
(I originally commented about the terrible typography but then I thought “I’m bothered by the typography?” Also, this is exactly someones sexual fantasy and that someone is almost certainly Arthur J. Burks)
January 17th, 2017 at 4:19 pm
@FB: You’re bothered by the typography?
January 17th, 2017 at 4:36 pm
Dammit, DSWBT has found my personal kryptonite!
January 17th, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Cover: A tale of a sorceress who turns people who’ve angered her into trees.
Blurb: A tale of Tibetan monks, Martians and magic mirrors.
I can only assume the publisher just picked the cover off a pile at random, or something. It isn’t the first time the denizens of this website have gotten a cover totally unrelated to the contents of the book.
January 17th, 2017 at 8:13 pm
Young Steven Stanton had been lost, wandering the Himalayas for weeks, almost out of water, food & hope. And suddenly, in the midst of his despair, the forgotten temple of Shambhala appeared! With his last strength, Stanton struggled to the temple door, where a lone lama waited. Silently, the lama pressed a copy of this book, with this cover, into Stanton’s hands. And thus, Stanton’s quest for enlightenment ended.
It’s a pity about the frostbite to his fingers on the way back, tho.
January 17th, 2017 at 8:56 pm
Yes, I suspect sorceress in charge of Ent-ifying has nothing to do with the book. Because she can’t be either a Tibetan lama or a scientist. Just possibly a Martian.
Not sure how the Tibetan lamas and the scientists are working together either, or how the scientists got the mirror away from the lamas or…
I think the shop in the background only sells pockets for swans. Or pockets to put swans in.
@FB: The typography is pretty bad. The stick-on lettering seems to have been done by someone who didn’t use a ruler.
I’d give this not so much a “WTF” but a “wtf… meh”.
January 17th, 2017 at 9:03 pm
According to the back-cover blurb. ‘highly-educated scientists with a plan’ is the most terrifying thing imaginable. How times change.
But are the Lamas and the Scientists on the same team? Is this a prequel to ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’?
January 18th, 2017 at 1:44 am
Really should be a Tolkien cover.
January 18th, 2017 at 2:58 am
@Tat Wood – You said it…If I had to pick someone had to work beside Lamas to wield a magic mirror, I think “highly-educated scientists with a plan” would be pretty high on my list. If the blurb had mentioned “poorly-educated scientists who liked to act on rash whims” then I would be scared…You know what they say about a little learning…
@GSS noob – I agree. There’s definitely a shop for swan pockets down the road. Wonder what they charge for one…
January 18th, 2017 at 4:40 am
Swan Pockets — a flavor not coming soon from Hot Pockets.
The illustration there seems to show you could fit two or three swans in one pocket, so they must be pretty big, and therefore costly. Strong fabric to restrain the cranky bastids too.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:30 am
I think I’ve broken rule 37 and possibly the internet itself. Googling “tree transmogrification porn” yields no relevant results.
@fred. Do you hate Tolkein that much? I mean I’m no fan but even I wouldn’t do that to him.
January 18th, 2017 at 10:10 am
I guess the juxtaposition with Tolkien is the palantir which had similar properties.
(My daughter once got an extra five marks because she used ‘juxtaposition’ in her art criticism essay so I thought I’d try it here.)
January 18th, 2017 at 11:40 am
@TW: we need a ‘+5 points’ tag here for classicOz’s juxtaposition.
Edit: never mind, that’s a -5 for ‘palantir’. 😉
January 18th, 2017 at 2:34 pm
The Swansea Guild of Pocketmakers called, and they want their marching-band banner back!
January 19th, 2017 at 5:53 am
@ARY: obviously the woman in blue doesn’t like parades or halftime shows, so she’s stolen the banner and is turning all the marchers’ legs into trees, and fingers into branches so they’ll never be able to play sousaphone again.
January 20th, 2017 at 6:49 am
Missed it by that much.
April 4th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
Wait…is this scene set in the middle of a cul-de-sac?