Jun 28
Rod Comments: Monochromatic red? Hardly kaleidoscopic when describing this gang unidentifiable flying bike objects.
Published 1979
Who wouldn’t want a space bike?
Many thanks to Rod!
Rod Comments: Monochromatic red? Hardly kaleidoscopic when describing this gang unidentifiable flying bike objects.
Published 1979
Who wouldn’t want a space bike?
Many thanks to Rod!
June 28th, 2010 at 10:17 am
I love the “A glittering galaxy of science fiction gems”. It makes it sound so… fabulous
June 28th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Zuul!?
http://www.spike.com/video/ghostbusters-1-2/2676761
June 28th, 2010 at 11:09 am
I love the font in this one.
Do you think the bikers behind the front space bike sometimes get knocked off by the wake of the engines?
June 28th, 2010 at 11:44 am
This would have been 100% fabulous only if they had spelled “Cosmic” with a K
June 28th, 2010 at 11:53 am
For Hell’s Angels from space, tearing up the interstellar highways, they seem rather … sedate, don’t you think?
June 28th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
@James Lovegrove
Hell’s Angels from space – on scarlet Vespas? Crank up the Steppenwolf now (or maybe not…)
June 28th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
The colorssss…. they burns, precious!
Seriously, did they not teach you that you can’t use that red with that blue in cover design school?
June 28th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Cosmic Quadrophenia?
June 28th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I’ve got that book. There’s no story in it featuring the space bikers, either.
The cowboy time-travel story (“Skirmish on a Summer Morning”) was pretty neat, though.
June 28th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Do you think they ever cross paths with http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/10/astro-pilots/
June 28th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
@CSA Thats a space scooter not a bike.
Maybe a rival gang!
June 28th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
He’s wearing shorts. Infact they look like short dungarees to me, which I believe is technically known as a playsuit. I find it stragely hard to be struck down with fear by a man in a playsuit.
June 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
A grey Cosmic Kaleidoscope that says “Dell SF”.
June 29th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Mr. Front and Center looks a little grumpy. I imagine it’s because he’s got a bonobo skull coming out of his joy division.
The bike on the left looks like he’s singing a chorus of “Ghost Riders in the Kaleidoscope”, while the right one seems to be figuring how to politely ask Lefty to be quiet.
June 29th, 2010 at 10:36 am
@CSA, @Parker: It’s Space Mods versus Space Rockers!
That neutron star with “Dell SF” lasered onto it… some kind of futuristic advertising for the latest neural augmentations?
June 29th, 2010 at 11:24 am
@Herm: On Space Brighton Beach!
July 1st, 2010 at 8:36 am
[Tries desperately to make a pun about “glittering galaxies”, fails, bangs head against keyboard]
April 24th, 2020 at 7:29 pm
Cosmic Quadrophenia is about right. It’s published 1979, after all. The font colour-scheme’s the same as those felt blazers all the wannabe Mods at my school had.
(There’s a joke about The Who and the TARDIS to be had if anyone wants to go there).
April 24th, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Maybe if viewed with some 3-D glasses an improvement in quality might be possible.
April 24th, 2020 at 10:15 pm
The contrast between title/blurb and art has rarely been this great. I see no kaleidoscope nor glittering. Not even a solo Ting!
Shame, Bob Shaw was a good writer, and much more subtle than this. “Light of Other Days” still holds up, in its quiet devastation.
@Tat: I’m not taking the 5:15 to this. Maybe heavy drug consumption would make this look better.
@fred: Nope.
Meanwhile, The Mermaid Menace continues!
https://www.amazon.com/Mer-Lovers-Illustrated-Collectors-Mates-Monsters-ebook/dp/B083CV1C5H
Marvel at the blurb.
April 24th, 2020 at 10:39 pm
“Loud pipes save lives!”
“But captain, we’re in space. There’s no sound.”
“Shut up, you cosmic commie! ‘Muricaaaa!”
April 24th, 2020 at 11:30 pm
Lobo’s Posse?
The tragic story of the artist who found out too late all he had was red and a little blue.
April 24th, 2020 at 11:41 pm
The two blue lights from the tailpipes look like eyes. Between them is a nose or a snout with two dark nostrils. Below the snout are teeth.
I think this space scooter started out life as a dragon.
April 25th, 2020 at 9:34 am
@GSS ex-noob
Couldn’t agree more. “Light of Other Days” is a great SF story and just a great piece of writing. I’m afraid I’m not joking when I say it looks like some people thought he had to be punished for that.
April 25th, 2020 at 9:50 am
Up ahead: the compost truck they all crash into as Clint Eastwood and an orangutan look on in bemusement.
April 25th, 2020 at 9:53 am
now I want to read the story about Clint Eastwood and his orangutan, Space Truckers.