@Bibliomancer—definitely ahead of their time. Those appear to be giant cannabis buds stored inside the big vacuum tubes in the upper left cover. These folks must’a been a bunch of hipsters.
@THX 1139—Synchronicity! Wowie Zowie! I wrote “hipster” before I saw your comment—then posted it and saw you’d just used the word—coincidence?
I’d better crawl out of this vacuum tube before my head aplode.
Hair Ting! is pretty rare, but she’s making up for that all by herself.
Another hyphenated “science-fiction”. WTF, old people? At least this is proper SF; today all they publish that even vaguely approaches genre is werewolf romance.
Why is the giant pizza cutter rocket-propelled?
ISFDB says this is from the “Margaret of Urbs” series, so I guess that’s Margaret?
Author died in 1935 (tragically young) so at least he didn’t have to see this. The original printing even came out posthumously.
Margaret thinks this is as dumb as we do. Or maybe she’s just wondering WTF is wrong with her shoulder and giant upper arm. Or is mad b/c the hipsters are bogarting all the bud.
@Tor: heh.
Hey, it’s free on Kindle and likely public domain everywhere. Blurb sez:
“”The Black Flame” starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. Its story concerns a brother and sister who have become immortal.”
@ARY: You really think she could toss that? No way. Margaret’s wiped out the ozone layer of at least one planet with the spray she’s used to lacquer that into a beehive that will resist outer space.
October 8th, 2018 at 9:18 am
So is the flame supposed to be shooting out of her head?
October 8th, 2018 at 9:20 am
The reason the pilot for Miranda Hart’s version of ‘The Generation Game’ was never aired.
October 8th, 2018 at 9:23 am
“Do people want a fire that can be fitted nasally?”
Not really, but they do apparently want it as a hairpiece, and available in colors other then red and yellow….
October 8th, 2018 at 11:10 am
If even the cover model’s sceptical, I don’t see why we should take this seriously.
October 8th, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Like I always say “If a cover’s not working just bung a giant chrome* dildo in the background”.
*O.K. probably more stainless steel, but it was the fifties – Ford and General Motors were probably stockpiling all the chrome.
October 8th, 2018 at 2:51 pm
Whoa! A science-fiction beauty parlor! Harlequin Books was on the cutting edge of scientifiction-romance back in the early days.
October 8th, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Apparently on the new Star Trek Discovery, Mr Spock was either to have a hipster beard or a beehive hairdo. This cover proves they chose wrongly.
October 8th, 2018 at 4:07 pm
@Bibliomancer—definitely ahead of their time. Those appear to be giant cannabis buds stored inside the big vacuum tubes in the upper left cover. These folks must’a been a bunch of hipsters.
October 8th, 2018 at 4:12 pm
@THX 1139—Synchronicity! Wowie Zowie! I wrote “hipster” before I saw your comment—then posted it and saw you’d just used the word—coincidence?
I’d better crawl out of this vacuum tube before my head aplode.
October 8th, 2018 at 5:15 pm
The only “black flame” I see around here is her hair.
October 8th, 2018 at 5:48 pm
It’s like Boy George starred in an Ed Wood production.
October 8th, 2018 at 6:44 pm
So the character’s name is “The Black Flame,” but they cast a white woman? I call whitewashing.
October 8th, 2018 at 9:02 pm
@Tor – Perhaps The Black Flame is her boyfriend?
October 8th, 2018 at 9:33 pm
@B. Chiclitz: Oh, you could put it down to coincidence… but I prefer to put it down to FATE! *Uproarious, echoing laughter*
October 9th, 2018 at 12:26 am
Hair Ting! is pretty rare, but she’s making up for that all by herself.
Another hyphenated “science-fiction”. WTF, old people? At least this is proper SF; today all they publish that even vaguely approaches genre is werewolf romance.
Why is the giant pizza cutter rocket-propelled?
ISFDB says this is from the “Margaret of Urbs” series, so I guess that’s Margaret?
Author died in 1935 (tragically young) so at least he didn’t have to see this. The original printing even came out posthumously.
Margaret thinks this is as dumb as we do. Or maybe she’s just wondering WTF is wrong with her shoulder and giant upper arm. Or is mad b/c the hipsters are bogarting all the bud.
@Tor: heh.
Hey, it’s free on Kindle and likely public domain everywhere. Blurb sez:
“”The Black Flame” starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. Its story concerns a brother and sister who have become immortal.”
October 9th, 2018 at 12:29 am
In other news, am quite chuffed about the new Doctor. She’s very Doctor-y; had a discussion today along the lines of “more like 4 or more like 10?”
October 9th, 2018 at 4:47 am
@THX 1139: Apparently on the new Star Trek Discovery, Mr Spock was either to have a hipster beard or a beehive hairdo …”
I hate to be such a fanboy, but this is from an episode of Star Tress.
October 9th, 2018 at 6:33 pm
The background seems awfully similar to this one: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=14202
October 12th, 2018 at 7:44 am
This cover was the germ of all those countless TV ads where models toss their hair about in slo-mo.
Science Fiction DOES predict the future, folks!
October 13th, 2018 at 1:47 am
@ARY: You really think she could toss that? No way. Margaret’s wiped out the ozone layer of at least one planet with the spray she’s used to lacquer that into a beehive that will resist outer space.
October 13th, 2018 at 1:35 pm
Could this possibly be a slimmed-down Divine from Female Trouble?
October 13th, 2018 at 9:59 pm
squints in vicinity of adam’s apple
@THX: I wouldn’t rule it out, no. This cover is kinda campy.
Could be a combo with what @Fred said in #11 — Boy George IS Divine IN… The Black Flame!
October 19th, 2018 at 3:28 pm
Hey it’s Fran Drescher!