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Click for larger imageRick Deckard Comments: Doug Weaver. The one-hit-wonder of science fiction cover artists.
Published 1961
(Average: 7.14 out of 10)
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Rick Deckard Comments: Doug Weaver. The one-hit-wonder of science fiction cover artists.
Published 1961
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September 4th, 2018 at 10:13 am
The older I get, the more I realise every year is the year of terror…
September 4th, 2018 at 12:47 pm
Oh, a history book! Don’t we save these for Honourable Mentions?
September 4th, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Well, 1976 was undoubtedly a year of terror mainly due to Doug Hammersmith beating me up behind the bike sheds and stealing my lunch money. Since the blurb doesn’t go into detail I’m forced to assume that’s what the book is about. (Odd, though, that I don’t remember the submachine gun or the distressed-clothed damsel.)
September 4th, 2018 at 1:30 pm
I am troubled that, uniquely, the “and” is not capitalised, otherwise I like it.
September 4th, 2018 at 1:56 pm
Anti-Kennedy propaganda?
September 4th, 2018 at 2:12 pm
Although I am somewhat embarrassed to point this out, we need a “Nip Slip” tag here.
September 4th, 2018 at 2:29 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Then you’ll be even more embarrassed when you notice that the tag was already there.
September 4th, 2018 at 3:27 pm
OK, first, it took me a couple of reads before I realized it wasn’t ruthless mets battling the secret police, but rather ruthless mobs. Honestly, I think it would probably have been a better story my way, but I’m not the boss.
Second, just precisely for whom are we supposed to be rooting? Ruthless mobs don’t sound so great, but I can’t say I’m a big fan of secret police either. Such a dilemma.
And finally, her left side and his right side should get together and make a family, and vice versa. The four of them might produce a couple of symmetrical offspring.
September 4th, 2018 at 4:00 pm
@Tag W—Oops, I guess my eyes were slipping too! Appy-polly-loggies.
(I could say that since my tag comments are so routinely ignored, I wrote one I knew would get a response, but that would be a lie 😉 )
September 4th, 2018 at 4:35 pm
Ah, ruthless mobs. I take back what I said earlier. Obviously about a zombie sheep outbreak, then.
September 4th, 2018 at 4:46 pm
@Francis B—I thought it was “ruthless moops” at first. After they invaded Spain.
September 4th, 2018 at 5:04 pm
Accurately predicted the rise and tyrannical reign of Emperor Jimmy Carter. ★★★★
September 4th, 2018 at 6:14 pm
@Raoul: Yeah, horrifying, because the Americans elected an actually decent human to their highest office.
September 4th, 2018 at 6:54 pm
The shocking true story of how Neil and Christine Hamilton first met.
September 4th, 2018 at 6:57 pm
I wonder if Bill Grundy reviewed this on A Better Read?
September 4th, 2018 at 10:37 pm
I’m not quite convinced that those two are crouching/sitting on a solid surface rather than awkwardly floating, and I’m a bit doubtful about that hidden leg.
Took me a little time to figure out “mobs” as well. One possibility was “mehs”, indicating the Secret Police were battling the savage forces of indifference.
September 5th, 2018 at 12:31 am
C’mon! Disco wasn’t that bad!
September 5th, 2018 at 1:03 am
AKA “The Year of Love”, which makes me wonder about George’s love life.
I read it as “Ruthless Mods” and thought “but mods and rockers weren’t still a thing in 1976”. That is one badly capitalized and colored tagline.
Does the tagline mean the damsel is Ruth, whom the mobs are after? Is the dude with the secret police? His attire suggests maybe, particularly the trousers and boots. (Needs “booties” tag)
Which one of them has the power of levitation? Did he develop that after losing a leg? The attention to detail on the bottom of Ruth’s shoe is amazing.
I don’t know about you guys, but 1976 wasn’t orange in my area, it was red white and blue everydamn where you went.
September 5th, 2018 at 4:25 am
Funny, I read the blurb as saying “ruthless molls.” At least that would have sort of made sense with the cover picture and all….
November 5th, 2019 at 9:28 pm
Ah, the terrors of 1976. I remember the terror of disco… Jimmy Savile… Punk Rock… trying to quit the “Record of the Month” Club…. and having only two TV channels.
November 6th, 2019 at 6:29 am
I do have to correct myself — we did have carpet almost that color in the house we moved into in 1976.
I’m wondering if this was leftover art from some “gangster and gun moll”/”tough guy and loose gal” book of the time. It’s not science fiction-y at all. Except perhaps in the levitation.
@ARY: And here I thought I had it bad with only 5 channels. The parents got cable TV in 1980 (a whole 30 channels)… immediately after I moved out.
Now of course, I live in The United States of Tomorrow, and I’d like to go back to The United States of About Ten Years Ago. My number of TV channels was more than adequate back then.
August 18th, 2020 at 1:16 am
Blouse designed by Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, stick it up your…well, whatever.