Mar 21
Mrs. McGillicuddy’s Art Direction: We need a cover fast. Paint something science-fictiony in the background of your self-portrait.
Published 1981
Mrs. McGillicuddy’s Art Direction: We need a cover fast. Paint something science-fictiony in the background of your self-portrait.
Published 1981
March 21st, 2018 at 10:07 am
“We have troops to prevent photobombing, giant gherkin man!”
March 21st, 2018 at 10:38 am
WTF is right. This book deserved an Emsh cover.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2190918.Doomtime
March 21st, 2018 at 11:46 am
It looks like the tree would rather not get involved.
Why are those men harrasing that poor Lima bean? I know we all hate Lima beans, but live and let live, I say.
March 21st, 2018 at 12:55 pm
@JuanPaul – clearly they’re fed up with it constantly showing off its one-handed pushup prowess. As one gets. I will say, though, that the man in the center of the fracas is not maximizing his spear’s HP potential running right up close like that.
March 21st, 2018 at 2:16 pm
Julian Pettifer’s award-winning undercover investigation of the cull on Barbapapa’s kids.
March 21st, 2018 at 2:52 pm
@JuanPaul – That must be a Green Giant lima bean. But he’s not so jolly.
March 21st, 2018 at 3:15 pm
What is that ridiculous looking thing?
And what’s going on in the background?
March 21st, 2018 at 4:12 pm
During a break in filming “Gone With the Wind,” Leslie Howard resolutely refuses to get involved in harassing Evil Mr. Potato Head.
March 21st, 2018 at 5:10 pm
An arrogant, disproportionate man poses for a portrait as four soldiers desperately try to contain a giant lilypad/insect/lima bean hybrid that has suddenly appeared and began to menace the surrounding area. Did you see its teeth?
March 21st, 2018 at 10:22 pm
What is this I don’t even.
I’m with @JuanPaul — why are the tiny people spearing the giant lima bean? Esp. since it seems to have lower back problems. Does it eat people in revenge for being disliked for generations? The (lack of) perspective seems to show that they are indeed tiny people compared to foreground dude.
Who is the weird-looking dude? What’s the deal with the beehive homes/artificial caves/aqueducts/giant wall of ovens? And what, pray tell, are world trees? Giant stalks of broccoli as we see in the upper left?
Is this a planet where people must struggle against overgrown sentient vegetables? Or have they wrongly invaded Jolly Green Giant Land and the veggies are simply defending their home? Ho ho ho.
March 21st, 2018 at 10:26 pm
‘War of the World Trees’? Ygdrassil vs Brian Aldiss’s banyan? How long would that take?
March 22nd, 2018 at 1:08 am
Is the hairy-backed pickle man pro or anti tree?
March 22nd, 2018 at 3:20 am
The War of the World Trees: Hot Fauna on Flora Action
March 22nd, 2018 at 4:31 am
The comments were particularly good today. GSS to all.
I’d love to see a “photo-bombing lima bean” tag.
I looked up Doris Piserchia. Here is a bit of trivia. She has not published any work since 1983, but she had a story accepted to Harlan Ellison’s notoriously unreleased “The Last Dangerous Visions” anthology.
March 22nd, 2018 at 5:42 pm
Clint Eastwood is sad at the harassment the poor lima bean is receiving.
March 22nd, 2018 at 8:04 pm
@Tor: Her Wiki entry said she quit writing to raise her grandchild, but the kid’s like 35 now, so I guess she just plain quit.
Also, the Wiki entry for LDV has a footnote to a delightful Christopher Priest takedown of the thing. Sadly, he’s now gone all the way to Old Man Yelling At Clouds, but 20-30 years ago he was just moderately snarky. And the GRRM comments/parallels are… predictive.
March 23rd, 2018 at 7:22 am
An elder David Bowie reflects back on his Space Oddity days, when giant pickles sawed through huge blocks of concrete and Hobbits still lived in the hills.
March 24th, 2018 at 1:41 am
@Tracy: applause perfect. This cover certainly is several space oddities.
April 3rd, 2018 at 10:47 am
@fred. Ah yes. The moment I saw the author’s name, I myself, “From what I hear of this Piserchia, the cover’s probably not more than 10% as weird as the book”.
Yup.