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Click for full imageChuck’s Art Direction: As for the baby I want you to base it on this photo of my own. Also, can make the skeleton smile lovingly? Oh! Make it one of those bumpy covers too, I just love those!
Published 1987
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March 15th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Santa’s Grotto’s not what it once was, since the floods.
March 15th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Nirvana’s cover art for Nevermind could have been so much stranger!
March 15th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Good God, the blurb:
“She was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea…”
George Harrison is spinning in his grave!
March 15th, 2011 at 10:40 am
How about this blurb instead:
“The editor was caught between the Marketing Department and his dwindling sense of decency…”
March 15th, 2011 at 10:41 am
This was what first came to mind…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoT277uRiyc
March 15th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Cover art by The Grateful Dead.
March 15th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
“Both gran and I can heartily recommend Johnson’s Baby Shampoo!”
March 15th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Now you may have to rethink your answer to “the company of which type of mermaid would you prefer if alone on a desert island?”
March 15th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
There’s no way that her real hair.
March 15th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
She has to feed using formula only.
March 16th, 2011 at 8:17 am
Everything in this book cover just screams for the most tasteless Michael Jackson joke of all time. But modesty forbids me…
March 16th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
I’ve often wondered about the skeleton of a mermaid: at what point does the upper, human, bone structure give way to the lower, piscine skeleture?
Alas, this cover doesn’t help this mystery of mysteries.
April 29th, 2015 at 8:02 pm
SEAWEED DOES NOT HAVE VEINS!
December 17th, 2017 at 3:49 am
So shiny!
I don’t suppose anyone has a copy of “Science Fiction Chronicle” #101 handy?
It’s got a review of both this book and “Heroing!”
November 13th, 2020 at 8:42 am
About time Charles Kingsley got a gritty reboot.
November 13th, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Some fairy tales have an unhappy ending, but make for great video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46XFJAv3YY
November 13th, 2020 at 3:08 pm
I recently learned that there is a mammal with scales. It’s called a pangolin.
That doesn’t have anything to do with this cover, but this is the only place I could think of to mention it.
November 14th, 2020 at 4:40 am
I was going to add “what about armadillos?” but they don’t technically have scales. And both armadillos and pangolins don’t have fish- or reptile-like scales.
Pangolins have gotten a bad rap lately thanks to Covid.
As for this cover, I’m betting that was a perfectly normal mermaid till Evil Baby there killed it.
November 14th, 2020 at 6:49 am
@GSS ex-noob: I’d be happy if thinking pangolins carry nasty diseases just made people stop eating them, but it probably means people will now kill them for carrying nasty diseases rather than because they’re tasty, because people are dicks.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:41 am
I learned about pangolins from an article that noted that their survival is threatened by people who kill them to make traditional medicine. So, yes, people are dicks.
November 15th, 2020 at 5:57 am
I haven’t read any articles lately about pangolins or armadillos but I have seen lots of other evidence to support the notion that, generally, yes, people are dicks.