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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: Hey taxi! Get me off this cover.
Published 1974
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Published 1974
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June 8th, 2017 at 11:24 am
Perhaps it’s volume 2 of a series?
Alien Hor1zons
Alien Hori2ons
Ali3n Horizons
4lien Horizons
Alien Horizon5
…
June 8th, 2017 at 11:28 am
‘Who gets a woody standing next to a nude lady?’
June 8th, 2017 at 11:30 am
Upon close examination, it seems that the rings of Saturn are running through the clouds in the atmosphere, implying that there is shortly going to be a literally Earth-shattering ka-boom. Yet the two on the cover seem awfully blasé about the situation.
June 8th, 2017 at 11:30 am
It’s a moon … it’s a planet … it’s Moonsaturn!
June 8th, 2017 at 11:34 am
Now we know what happened to the two folks from The Great Mirror.
June 8th, 2017 at 11:58 am
Looks like he has just figured out that he’s barking up the wrong tree.
June 8th, 2017 at 12:07 pm
@Tom Noir – Arf! Arf!
June 8th, 2017 at 1:00 pm
These deodorant ads just get more cryptic…
June 8th, 2017 at 1:11 pm
That looks more like E.T.’s torso than a normal gentleman’s.
June 8th, 2017 at 1:55 pm
This is what happens when you eat too much quinoa.
June 8th, 2017 at 2:03 pm
It sounds like Ray Bradbury has got a Smeagol/Gollum dynamic going on, “it dentses our memories!”
June 8th, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Naked people trees? Where can I get those???
June 8th, 2017 at 2:30 pm
@Frank: They’re impossible to find. It’s not like they grow on…wait…
June 8th, 2017 at 2:41 pm
This alien horizon looks amazingly like a foreground.
June 8th, 2017 at 2:53 pm
A permanent dent in our memories… you spend the rest of your life thinking ‘why did I buy this?’
June 8th, 2017 at 2:57 pm
People have been turning into trees since the ancient Greeks but it took the Seventies to invent turning into purple trees.
June 8th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
Judging by the lack of nipples it’s a safe bet that tree people do not suckle their young.
June 8th, 2017 at 5:02 pm
@DSWBT (13) 😎
June 8th, 2017 at 5:06 pm
Dear Tag Wizard,
It’s been awhile since I have importuned you with any of my many GSS obsessions, but surely this guy deserves a “weird pecs” tag? Not only are there dents in our memories, their are dents in his mammaries! And his left shoulder looks like it was stolen right off of GI Joe and glued on.
I will make no cracks about her bum, since it has no crack.
June 8th, 2017 at 5:43 pm
People turning into trees, trees turning into people, or dryads/nature spirits?
Perhaps the world will never know … unless, if you’ll excuse my skepticism, there’s actually something like this in the book. *derisive snort*
I know. When does that happen?
June 8th, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Dear BC – Your comment reminds me that this is a “non-papillial person”. I’ll update that tag.
June 8th, 2017 at 8:06 pm
@TagW—Thanks. I forgot “non-papillial” subsumed “weird pecs” because it sounds a lot more highfalutin’ and fancy and therefore much more appropriate to this massively sophisticated venue.
In my heart, though, it’ll always be “weird pecs.”
June 8th, 2017 at 9:20 pm
Before this thread branches off into another endless pun run, let’s leave it be. Cheap puns will only make us seem barking mad.
June 8th, 2017 at 9:28 pm
Many years ago, there was a family not too different from your own, or mine. It seemed that, every month since he took his auto license, the son had begged the father for a new car. And yet, the father had refused to commit.
So, the big 18th birthday came around. All of the generations of the family were gathered around as the father solemnly presented the son with a small box.
Eagerly, he opened it; and inside was a copy of the Bible.
Furious, the son cursed his father to his face, told him he never wanted to speak to him again. The next morning saw the son enlisted in the Marines. He went overseas, served his country, came back, got an education, started a career and a family. But he never spoke to his father again. Many times over the years, the father reached out to his son, to no avail.
One day, not long ago, the son received a letter from a lawyer. His father had passed away quietly in his sleep. In his will, the father had spoken of his sadness at his inability to contact his son. Moreover, the father had left a small token for the son. Would he come and get it?
Reluctantly, the son drove across the country. He signed some paperwork, then entered the silent house where he had grown up. There, his father’s testament, was the copy of the Bible.
Finally knowing some sorrow, the son picked up his Bible and opened it.
Inside, every single ‘Z’ was replaced with a ‘2’.
Isn’t that so fucked up?
June 8th, 2017 at 11:39 pm
I got nothin’.
The guy is more “weird torso”; DSWBT is right that it looks like ET’s. Perhaps becoming en-treed crushed all his ribs and stripped off his nipples.
Ray’s right; this is going to be a dent in my memories. A hellmouth kinda dent.
This is a collection of short stories, but I don’t know if tree people with an attacking ringed planet are in it.
Here’s the back cover — more blurbs!
https://www.dpspbs.com/pictures/3594_2.jpg?v=1463293707
June 8th, 2017 at 11:45 pm
Oh, and when I ran the image search, I got this, pics of “Logan’s Run” books (logical), random sci-fi imagery (okay) and the cover of “Your Child and Bullying.”
Which makes me even more nervous about what this book might do to me. Dents indeed.