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Tat Wood Comments: A gentle, lyrical book set on a world that’s like late 19th Century Cornwall. Obviously.
Published 1975
Tat Wood Comments: A gentle, lyrical book set on a world that’s like late 19th Century Cornwall. Obviously.
Published 1975
May 16th, 2018 at 10:17 am
Try conditioner.
May 16th, 2018 at 10:53 am
It is heartening to see an annoying mime become very un-annoying.
May 16th, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Rax. The sound he makes when he coughs up a hairball.
May 16th, 2018 at 3:03 pm
Looks like the Toreador ran into the wrong space bull.
May 16th, 2018 at 4:17 pm
Evel Knievel and Chewbacca – the tale of a love that dare not speak its name.
May 16th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
♫ He ain’t heavy, he’s my brooooootheeeer. ♫
May 16th, 2018 at 5:22 pm
I think we need a GSS for crappy titles. The original title was “Hello Summer, Goodbye”. I’ve never read it, but Goodreads seems to think well of it. The original Pan cover is not remarkable but not offensive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Summer,_Goodbye). So this DAW version is a double crime—awful cover and awful title.
May 16th, 2018 at 5:39 pm
@Longtime Lurker:
1. You should, it’s a gem.
2. The Pan edition spine messed up the colouring so it read like ‘Hello Summer. Goodbye Michael’ by G Coney
3. I love the Pan cover, it conveys the setting and mood without yelling ‘It’s Science Fiction’.
4. Rax is a significant part of the story so retitling it to make a bigger splash might have seemed like a good idea to someone. The painting also must have, for some reason.
May 16th, 2018 at 5:45 pm
(Joke that only works today and for people who’ve read the book) Do you hear ‘Lorin’ or ‘Shaggy’?
May 16th, 2018 at 6:15 pm
The woman has orange skin and her clothes are a right mishmash of colours – no wonder she sort of looks like a mime. Being held by a sasquatch in the pose favoured by cheesy monster movies from the ’50s is a bit much, methinks.
May 16th, 2018 at 7:23 pm
I just realized—RAX is Charles Laughton!
“I am a man.”
“No, you’re not.”
May 16th, 2018 at 9:14 pm
I enlarged to try an figure out WTF any of that was. It did not help.
May 17th, 2018 at 4:24 am
So much yellow…
Is the damsel maybe from Circus World, or did she Picnic on Paradise?
I’m a little worried about her arm joints. I’m really worried about the critter’s misshapen skull.
I wonder if Sturgeon used this cover to illustrate his Law?
May 17th, 2018 at 4:56 am
Rax – wasn’t there a chain of roast-beef sandwich restaurants by that name? I hope Mr. Hairy was neither their main ingredient nor their target customer….
May 22nd, 2018 at 7:10 am
When the cover is lax, they will nix Rax.
(Headline source: Variety)