Feb 17
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: Stevens! We have a problem. ‘Demon Muskrat Vixens,’ just came back from the printers with a picture of some giant cube on the cover. What happened to that crazy ass piece we originally commissioned for it?!
Update: New, improved cover photo supplied by Tom Noir!
Published 1993
Many thanks to Tom!
(Average: 7.75 out of 10)
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February 17th, 2011 at 9:07 am
“A Novel of Future Boston”
-Giant beavers (or whatever that is) with guns!
I think I’ll drop Boston if I go to the US.
February 17th, 2011 at 9:07 am
‘In future Boston, bras will be a thing of the past.’
Am I the only one who reads that title as ‘Cin the Ube’?
February 17th, 2011 at 9:09 am
Wasn’t that woman in some 1980s US television series?
February 17th, 2011 at 9:27 am
I see this one is tagged as (among other things) “front problems”. Is this a cleavage reference?
This is another one for the “behind you!” panto category. Except that the perspective is all off, and the beaver is capable of being on her back AND to the left side of her head AND leaning on the Borg cube which otherwise appears to be half a mile away.
I defy anyone to identify an exact line where her hair ends and the shoulder-mounted beaver begins.
February 17th, 2011 at 9:42 am
Phil> You tag fascist! Ok, mistakes were made and have now been corrected thanks! 🙂
February 17th, 2011 at 9:44 am
No no the book is actually called, “In The OBE.” The right side of the O has just fallen in.
February 17th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Is the beaver called Justin?
February 17th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Oh, dear – am I the first one to make the Police Squad joke? “Nice beaver!”
February 17th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
“My story? Well, I came here for the Boston Tree Party…”
February 17th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
That beaver has quite a highly developed sense of balance. It’s able to be behind her head even with a hind leg placed on both shoulders AND point a gun at someone.
Anyways, apologies for the poor picture quality. Difficulties with my cellphone camera. I’ll do better next time.
I now live very close to my town’s large used book store ‘Chamblins Book Mine’. I expect many good covers to come…
February 17th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Wow, is In the Cube really almost 20 years old? A lot of good writers came out of that Boston writer’s project.
Hey, that cube is like a mile on a side. And that’s just an ordinary Charles River rat. They all look like that.
February 17th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Well your not really IN the cube, but the look on that beaver’s face tells me I shoul shut up.
February 17th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
“A startling look at Boston of the future — when retro haircuts run rampant on the streets!”
February 17th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
David Alexander McCall Smith
IN THE CUBE
A heartwarming novel of the future of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
February 17th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Borg cube: AAHH BEAVERS OUR ONLY WEAKNESS
ALSO, BULLETS
February 17th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I can’t tell where the Muskrat ends and the woman’s hair begins…or, wait, is it a symbiotic relationship?
February 17th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
“Dammit, I’m NOT doing Catwoman 2! Give me a decent role or eat lead!!”
February 18th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Oh and by the way, this site is now the top Google result for the phrase ‘demon muskrat vixens’.
You can thank me later!
February 19th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
[between clenched teeth] Thank you… very… much!
😉
February 19th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
It must be the first time in history that the cover artwork actually shot the artist dead in retaliation.
February 21st, 2011 at 1:12 am
Is the beaver also holding gun?
February 21st, 2011 at 1:34 pm
One day, they pushed Beaverbo too far.
February 24th, 2011 at 12:03 am
@GK – Yes. That beaver is, as they say, ‘packing heat’.
December 9th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Looking at this cover now, I get the impression that this woman’s hair normally stands straight up, and that the rat/beaver/muskrat thing is the only thing holding it down.
January 23rd, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Incidentally, rumor has it Ben Affleck is working on the film adaptation.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:12 am
I’ve alerted the government to the Sentient Demon Beaver problem, and they’re sending out the armed forces to annihilate the beavers and the people they’ve taken control of. How Boston got so badly affected, I don’t know, but I think there may have been some hiding in the Christmas tree they got from Halifax last year. Makes sense.
July 14th, 2017 at 11:51 am
Beacon Hill -> Beacon WhattheHill
July 14th, 2017 at 11:52 am
@Tom: you’ll be thrilled to hear that, years later, GSS is still the top hit for ‘demon muskrat vixens’.
July 14th, 2017 at 12:15 pm
I’m only mildly thrilled, since it interferes with my searches for pr0n!
July 14th, 2017 at 12:52 pm
@Tom: try leaving the ‘s’ off of vixens, maybe?
July 14th, 2017 at 1:39 pm
From the viewpoint of Roger Goodell.
July 14th, 2017 at 2:17 pm
Hmmm, future Boston, written in 1993. There’s a a chance this happened and I just happened to be out of town that weekend.
July 14th, 2017 at 4:31 pm
A radical re-imagining of ‘Make Way for Ducklings’.
July 14th, 2017 at 6:18 pm
I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did my beaver fire six shots or only five’? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, i kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a Boston Beaver, the most irritable beaver in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel bucky?’ Well do ya, punk?
July 14th, 2017 at 7:05 pm
I live in Future Boston. The troubles began when the Future Maine beavers became sentient and lured away our women folk.
July 14th, 2017 at 9:42 pm
According to my well-thumbed edition of Grey’s Beaver Anatomy that fellow has the wrong tail, or, maybe, he’s found a better one.
July 14th, 2017 at 10:19 pm
@BC: so what you’re saying is, that’s actually a muskrat pointed at us? 😉
July 14th, 2017 at 11:15 pm
By golly, that IS a muskrat. It’s a ROUS, but presumably the overgrowth comes along with the ability to use weapons.
July 14th, 2017 at 11:23 pm
@DSWithBT—as in “Is that a muskrat in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”🦁
July 15th, 2017 at 5:13 pm
Now contemplating “Angry Beavers” as my all-girl punk band name. (When I start my all-girl punk band, that is…)
July 15th, 2017 at 6:17 pm
When muskrats are illegal, only criminals will have muskrats.
July 15th, 2017 at 6:46 pm
OK, infoqueen, you can have ‘Angry Beavers’ but ‘Angry Beavers with Handguns’ is definitely going on my list of bad band names.
July 18th, 2017 at 3:20 am
About the title of this…thing….
“C U in the BE”?
October 29th, 2017 at 10:11 pm
In Future Boston, beaver eat you.
October 29th, 2017 at 10:13 pm
David Alexander Smith in: “The Cube.”
Funny, IMDb doesn’t list him.