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Click for full imageLook, I’m all for drawing yourself on the cover – but it comes at a price. A translucent alien head staring at the reader, some lightning on the hills and (my forte) flying avocados! And I really mean avocados with pink wings. With that all there, you can just draw how you feel.
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)
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March 15th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Too many ‘ands’ there. Especially in the quote. I think they man is hold his head because he’s entered a cover full of grammatical nightmares.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
guacamole with flying avocados! Yummy!
March 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Never has the double facepalm of disgust been so appropriate.
Its clearly meant to be a surreal story, but when you put it on a cover like that it just looks bad.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I assume the lightning struck him on the head, and that’s why he’s wailing.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
The man in the cover has seen the cover. It burns.
March 15th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
CSA: yes indeed. The artwork is actually quite well drawn, but the artist was plainly on LSD or something like that. (I mean, the sky is acceptable: I’ve seen twilight skies that look like that. But the pink wings on the flying legless headless pigs and the calmly staring spectral elf, well, this is plainly LSD or something even more controlled.)
March 15th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
The title sounds like a drinking game. Say the first part of the sentence, then add “And disregards the rest.” Seems to apply when logic, layout, and font are considered, since the layout artist disregarded the rest.
April 20th, 2010 at 3:58 am
With apologies to Paul Simon:
Avocados? Jest! Still a man draws what he wants to draw
And disregards the rest…
La La La! La La La La La-la-la…
April 21st, 2010 at 7:59 am
You know, this doesn’t look like a great book, but I think I would have to buy it if I saw it. The author chose a title that would intrigue Simon and Garfunkel fans and confuse the hell out of everyone else. Such gall deserves to be rewarded.
April 21st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Actually it is a pretty decent book. One of its themes is insanity – which obviously must have infected the cover artist.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:48 am
“The rest” is a phrase which here means “all the leftover art that was rejected from other books, pasted together into something that makes no sense whatsoever.”
April 14th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
In the corner stands an artist
And a draftsman by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev’ry editor who pushed him
And cajoled him till he cried out
In his frustration and his shame
“I will draw it, I will draw it!”
So the avocados still remain
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.
May 1st, 2014 at 2:30 am
I’ve read this book, and leaving the flying avocados aside, the cover shows a few major plot points. The book is about an avant-garde production of Shakespeares “The Tempest” being performed deep in the Australian bush and the unexpected repercussions of it. The writing style is sort of a mid 90’s aussie version of Philip K Dick, and was the authors first work. Unfortunately, he only wrote one other work (“The weird colonial boy”) before vanishing to wherever writers who don’t sell well end up.
Oh, and thinking about it, while the flying avocados do not appear in the book, they would have been far from the strangest thing seen.
April 25th, 2015 at 7:27 pm
Dennis screwed up his first World of Warcraft quest in the worst way imaginable.
April 25th, 2015 at 7:49 pm
We should have a contest to see who can craft the longest sentence using only GSS book titles.
April 27th, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Bonus points for number of separate titles?
Further points if it sounds vaguely like it could be an actual SF blurb?
“Sometime after the equinox, when the devil dances behind the walls of Terra, women at war in other worlds- Valentina, Perelandra, the Girl from the Emeraline Island- hunt the space-witch in the empire of shadow.”
April 27th, 2015 at 3:10 pm
@RachelJ: Bravo! The bar has been set very high!
I have to resist the temptation to play this game instead of working but I will return to it forthwith!
April 27th, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Now remember: no adding words- no conjunctions, no prepositions, nothing. Just pure titles!
April 27th, 2015 at 6:01 pm
I’m afraid I can’t compete. Not only do I lack inspiration, all of my results are rather…er…naughty:
‘We who are about to…consider her ways and others in the den of the dragon wave the shape of sex to come this creeping evil manseed in the hands of glory.’
April 27th, 2015 at 6:32 pm
‘We few, melancholy elephants, descendants of the light, a plague of demons in the flesh, spirits black as thunder marching through peachtree to the dark tower, overthrowing heaven, the source of magic out of times abyss not for glory, lest darkness fall twice in time, leaping to the stars to build Jerusalem, city who fought servants of the Wankh.
April 27th, 2015 at 7:37 pm
All we need now is some flying tacos, some flying sauce, a helping of flying refried beans and perhaps flying mincemeat, a lot of flying corn, perhaps a few flying tortillas, a whole bunch of flying tomatos… and it’s party time!
April 27th, 2015 at 11:02 pm
Still I persist in wondering what mad universe sucks and blows our friends from Frolix 8 into the hinterlands searching for dragons chaining the lady in the cube the night the heads came.
April 27th, 2015 at 11:08 pm
Geez, I’m going to start submitting made-up book covers with just conjunctions for titles.
“AND”
Part I in the thrilling CONJUNCTION CHRONICLES.
“I can’t wait to get my hands on BUT!!” -Orson Scott Card
April 28th, 2015 at 12:24 am
@Tom: would XNOR be the prequel?
As for myself, I hope someone writes a scientifiction novel called, ‘Yo Momma’s So Fat…’
April 28th, 2015 at 5:57 am
And now, the all-Baen edition:
“At all costs a few good men march to the sea; there will be dragons, soldiers, future weapons of war, chicks ‘n’ chained males, mountains and madness, a plague of demons, exile- and glory- the best of all possible wars.”
April 28th, 2015 at 10:34 am
I salute you, RachelJ.
June 4th, 2015 at 10:55 pm
Can we craft sentences out of the Tag Chaos?
‘Once you see it, beard wielding space sheep cloaks Baen Books’ cat people cleavage BEHIND YOU!’
May 30th, 2017 at 12:47 am
The world ‘avocado’ is from the Nahuatl for ‘testicle’. I think that’s relevant. Besides, winged bananas would be too blatant a form of innuendo.