Feb 04
Click for larger imageMalcolm Comments: Lookin’ cool with her fairy devil-pig and her giant Master Lock.
Published 1969
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Malcolm Comments: Lookin’ cool with her fairy devil-pig and her giant Master Lock.
Published 1969
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February 4th, 2019 at 10:14 am
Lock, Jane and Teddy?
February 4th, 2019 at 10:41 am
Surprisingly sensible-looking shoes, given the rest of what I can charitably call her outfit. [1]
[1] A touch porn-y for a 15 year old, but given Heinlein’s nudism fetish, I can’t really say if what’s actually in the book is any better. (Never read it)
February 4th, 2019 at 11:03 am
Wasn’t Podkayne, like, 14, and not a giant-eyed slutty-dressed suitable-for-Instagram-stardom? I don’t recall the long bleach blonde hair either.
I’m also giving whoever was responsible for the cover text a side-eye for two reasons: the “groovy” font, and calling Heinlein “the master of fantasy”, when he mostly wrote science fiction his whole career. Especially up to the point of this printing (it took 6 years to be published in Britain?), and this one in particular being SF. And the misleading Wreath of Approval, implying that this book won the Hugo.
February 4th, 2019 at 12:05 pm
I do not grok this cover.
February 4th, 2019 at 12:40 pm
“And the thing about Mars, the colour of Mars, your basic Mars colour, is red. Oh, O.K. go with yellow if that’s what you want.”
February 4th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
@Bruce A Munro, gotta say, the hi-top Chucks do kind of give the whole assemblage a certain timelessness, from the perspective of 50 years later.
February 4th, 2019 at 1:12 pm
Another sad victim of Martian teenager belly-button frostbite.
February 4th, 2019 at 3:01 pm
I kind of wish there was a Pod-Kanye of Mars book. The cover model’s clothing would be equally bad, but a completely different aesthetic than this one.
February 4th, 2019 at 3:56 pm
She’s waiting for Floyd, Animal and Dr Teeth to show up.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:37 pm
@Tat: Don’t forget Zoot.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:51 pm
I would like to congratulate this cover with a Hugo Award Winner Laurel and Hardy handshake
February 4th, 2019 at 6:06 pm
@THX: he took the photo. That’s why he needs sunglasses now.
February 4th, 2019 at 6:56 pm
@Francis Boyle: they end up on Venus in the book, so maybe Venus is yellow. [1] Still a rather lazy background job: she looks like she’s levitating above a flood of
banana pudding.
@GSS ex-noob: if the Wikipedia article is correct, the book wasn’t even nominated.
[1] But if it’s Venus, they couldn’t see the stars, let alone what seems to be a spiral nebula. Science fiction-y!
February 4th, 2019 at 10:38 pm
The little imp she’s carrying is being way too aggressive about suckling at her breast.
February 5th, 2019 at 9:02 pm
At least she has sensible footwear – many damsels on skiffy covers don’t even get a pair of shoes!
February 5th, 2019 at 10:48 pm
@Bruce: If you can see bright stars and giant spiral nebulas on Venus in this reality, it can also be made of artificially-colored banana pudding. Although the glow/texture/opacity makes me wonder if it’s either lemon jello or lemon meringue pie filling. Her Chucks might not have been that color originally.
@Tat: I KNEW she reminded me of someone, and you’ve nailed it. Fer shure.
I think the little Venusian critter may be the most accurately-depicted thing on the cover, though I don’t recall its color.
@Tag: do we have a “she’s got legs” tag? Because, she does, and she’s showing them off.
February 6th, 2019 at 3:56 am
@Tag: Not to mention, ‘so much yellow’.