Dec 09
Click for full imageJohn Comments: There isn’t a joke I could make that would trump the description on the back – “The wife of a powerful figure in CA is found brutally murdered in the couple’s lonely mountain retreat. Wesley Stoneham made certain that all the evidence concerning the murderer of his wife pointed to a nearby hippie community. He had 3 goals in mind: to get rid of his wife, to drive out the hippie commune, and to enhance his own power in the state. He was at the point of achieving them all when Garnna, from the peaceful planet of Zartic finally made contact with Debby, a hippie from the commune, who had problems of her own. Then, Stoneham’s troubles began.” OF COURSE I BOUGHT THIS RIGHT AWAY!
Published 1975
Many thanks to John!
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December 9th, 2010 at 9:38 am
All those Laser Books have identical covers, with a man’s disembodied head in the lower right corner. They’re usually ugly men too. Check out the cover on John Morressy’s A Law for the Stars here, for example.
December 9th, 2010 at 9:48 am
That is amazing!
December 9th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I like to think Debbies main problems of her own might be something around.. being in contact with large zebra like aliens. Otherwise on the same scale.. not having enough butternut squash might be a major issue.
December 9th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
See, this is what happens when hippies write SF.
December 9th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Alternative back cover blurb, matching the cover:
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“The wife of a powerful figure in CIA is found brutally murdered in the couple’s high-rise apartment. Wesley Stoneham is behind the murder, and the mastermind of a galaxy-spanning plot to murder a peaceful herd of vegetarian aliens, by setting them on fire with Peter O’Toole’s disembodied flaming head. Only an enlightened hippie commune can save the galaxy…”
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December 9th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I was thinking Catweazle. A YOUNG Catweazle.
December 9th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Is that some kind of dancing dinosour chorus?
Every disembodied head should have one…
December 9th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Yeah, I didn’t think those looked like zebras so much as velociraptors.
December 9th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
“I was thinking Catweazle. A YOUNG Catweazle.”
He he! 🙂
CATWEAZLE AND THE BLUE FIRE LIZARDS
December 9th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
“I am the floating head of Dr. Strange and I approve of this—wait, what the hell is going on back there?”
December 9th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Hey, give the poor artist a break. This was an Elwood, at the height of his hyperpublication frenzy, so presumably there were about five million more covers to do that week.
December 9th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
“The wife of a powerful figure in CA … ”
I’m trying to think of a “Man At C&A” joke here.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:13 am
You know a similar thing happened to me on the way to my mountain retreat whilst trying to enhance my powers. I buried my wife under the patio instead though.
December 20th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
One might credibly argue that book covers like these deter aliens from contacting Earthlings.
January 31st, 2011 at 2:52 am
This is a series!?
April 1st, 2013 at 8:41 pm
“My, floating flaming head, what big eyes you have!”
“Shut up kid. Hey, is that a macrame poncho you’re wearing? What are you, some kind of hippie? I HATE hippies..”
“No mister, it’s a riding hood. And might I say, what a big unruly platicy looking mop of hair you have!”
“Kid, if I had hands I’d slap you upside your hippie head.”
“And mister floating head, what a big bunch of aliens you have…behind you!”
“What?! Aargghh! They’re back…again? Kid, turn me around..”
“Not even, you fascist pig from CA! Hey aliens! Over here! See this head? He says he’s gonna wipe out your planet and turn the whole place into low rent commercial property, tax free of course.”
“??grzlczxw!”
“HEY! No! Kid!”
“Ya hungry Mr.Aliens? His head tastes just lime chicken!”
“!&%?Mmmmmmm..”
“NOOOOOOO!”
February 28th, 2016 at 6:08 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_Ahhuto98
January 14th, 2017 at 7:28 am
I own this book. And yes, it is exactly as the back cover describes — luckily the murder isn’t much and the aliens are pretty cool.
All the Laser Book covers are terrible, even though the books (all unrelated, by different authors) are adequate-to-good. I, uh, may have a collection of them? The disembodied dude heads never had much to do with the books.