Dec 06
Charles Comments: Searching for the Sun? BEHIND YOU!
Published 1983
You might remember this hairdo from here.
Charles Comments: Searching for the Sun? BEHIND YOU!
Published 1983
You might remember this hairdo from here.
December 6th, 2017 at 11:10 am
Presenting the Cageworld X-1, the first spaceship designed to walk instead.
@admins, looks like this is part of a series of some kind.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Well, if you will go into a newsagent’s in Liverpool…
December 6th, 2017 at 12:30 pm
@DSWBT: According to Goodreads, everything is a series:
To Kill A Mocking Bird (Scout-verse #1)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #2)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Fallstaff Trilogy #3)
December 6th, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Zeusie searches for solar shells by the sunspot.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:20 pm
He could play NFL football wearing that hair-helmet.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:25 pm
There’s a lot of st tos on this cover.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:44 pm
It’s over there between the sky. . .and the other bit of sky.
December 6th, 2017 at 3:07 pm
find ../sh/Solar “sun” -user Zeus -print
December 6th, 2017 at 4:09 pm
Could this cover be the inspiration for a popular meme?
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/24800000/Your-argument-is-invalid-random-24837760-500-582.jpg
December 6th, 2017 at 4:13 pm
@Tor – Could be. But that’s given me another idea: “Cageworld” starring Nic Cage! Let’s Kickstarter this new franchise.
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/6/62/THTYFHDS661984.jpg
December 6th, 2017 at 4:31 pm
At first glance, you might think Zeus is one of the men on this cover. But this is Zeus we’re talking about. He’s actually assumed the form of that leggy spaceship in an attempt to woo some misguided young lady.
December 6th, 2017 at 4:39 pm
@Raoul: Yes! Cage was born to play this. It would be his greatest role since Wicker Man.
December 6th, 2017 at 5:08 pm
Hair guy is Maq Ancor – Master Assassin. Because……….inconspicuousness is no longer a hallmark of Master Assassins?
December 6th, 2017 at 5:13 pm
So Zeus is up to the old shell game is he? What shell is the babe under? This shell? That shell? Is she under the sun? The toga? The cloak? Don’t be fooled! Learn how Zeus manages to get so much action!
December 6th, 2017 at 5:19 pm
A Moon made of green cheese waits within a Lunar Scalextric
@THX: nice one!
December 6th, 2017 at 7:40 pm
Search for the Sun?
He’s Sol searching.
December 6th, 2017 at 7:43 pm
The face of a man who’s interested in trying out an argument before he signs up for the course of ten.
December 6th, 2017 at 8:08 pm
@B’Mance— 😉
December 6th, 2017 at 8:19 pm
After seeing so many SF covers, I want to be cryogenically frozen. Then I can wake up in a future where I can wear capes and togas while women wear almost nothing.
The future looks good.
December 6th, 2017 at 8:53 pm
@Tor: stop being such an American movie producer and GET OUT OF MY FRIGIDAIRE!
Edit:at least he doesn’t want to wear almost nothing to wake up in a future where women wear capes and togas and men are cryogenically frozen. 😉
December 6th, 2017 at 9:22 pm
@DSWBT: All other men are cryogenically frozen? That sounds like a better deal. I might even — y’know — get a date.
December 7th, 2017 at 1:01 am
(I should get a date when SOMETHING freezes over, anyway.)
December 7th, 2017 at 2:43 am
This appears to be a random assemblage of sci-fi-esque objects, save for Helmet Hair Hero. I’m thinking that really is his hair as described in the series, since it’s so consistent(ly awful) across books.
Why is the green cheese moon within an off-center metal ring? Is it some space cheese slicer? Is the non-bearded, non-thunderbolted young chap supposed to be Zeus? Where’s Apollo, the sun is his thing? Why pyramids? Why the excessively-limbed spaceship thingy?
He must be a Master Assassin to succeed while sporting that hairdo.
Indeed, these books simply cry out for Nic Cage in a cheap red wig to star in the movie version. They might make more sense.
BTW, I read the blurb as “Solar shield”, which made me think of this:
http://solarshield.com/
(Clip-ons oooh! Imagine Nic in this http://solarshield.diopticssunwear.com/rec-54-night-drivers)
@DSWBT(8): that’s us saved from reading the whole book. Elegant.
July 9th, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Helmet-hair reminds me of John Waite c. 1979:
Every time I think of Zeus
You always come out green,
Every time I dream of
An earwig-shaped machine…..
July 9th, 2022 at 11:09 pm
@Emster:
But I ain’t missing you at all
Since I got me this wig…
(It was c. 1984)
July 10th, 2022 at 7:18 pm
“Ha haa! I shall flush down the green planet in my Cosmo-Toilet, and Flash Gordon won’t stop me!”