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Click for full imageJoachim Comments: Even this Captain Kirk clone wouldn’t run after that alien woman…. The crazy yellow acorn headed face must be compelling him.
Published 1968
(Average: 8.00 out of 10)
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Joachim Comments: Even this Captain Kirk clone wouldn’t run after that alien woman…. The crazy yellow acorn headed face must be compelling him.
Published 1968
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October 20th, 2011 at 8:15 am
On my first search for this book here’s what I found:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/kate-douglas/starquest.htm
This is probably more worth of our attention. But maybe another time!
October 20th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Bookfinder: Nice one. Did they specifically request the most easily bored of the available male models?
As for the Koontz cover, I love the tagline — “drove a salient into another universe” sounds like such an awesome science-fictional expression. However, a quick Google search tells me that there was a car from the 20s called a Stephens Salient Six, so “they” might have just been driving a car. (I’m not sure if that reference would have made any sense in 1968, so maybe it is just an awesome science-fictional expression.)
October 20th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Crikey, Dean’s been around a while, hasn’t he? Er, anyway, whose turn is it to wear the Sammy Snyders mask?
October 20th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Methinks the artist struggles with hands.
Hero: though mathematically correct, appears to have more fingers than he needs.
Heroine: the span of a concert pianist.
Background critters: miscellaneous phalangeal issues.
October 20th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Why is the lass so bitter? Methinks it’s because she just popped Kirk’s arm out of his shoulder socket with her palm…and he STILL hasn’t noticed her!
October 20th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
@Phil–sorry, I didn’t mean to plagiarize your turn of phrase! Completely unconscious on my part. I’m terribly sorry.
October 20th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
That space ship is flying a little too low to the ground, wouldn’t you say? Maybe Captain, er, “Dirk” and Spockette are the 31st century’s equivalent of meter maids.
October 20th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Blurbs that almost but not quite made it to this cover:
“They drove a projecting angle into another universe.”
“They drove a Space Impala into another universe.”
“They drove a big, shiny spear into another universe.”
“They drove an abstract term into another universe.”
October 20th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
@Dead Stuff: Methinks we both doth plagiarise Shakespeare with our turns of phrase. Or something.
October 20th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Dean Koontz happens to live new the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa, California area – I’m thinking actually Laguna Beach but I could be wrong. Anyway, because he’s here he’s one of the library’s most popular check outs. (I’m a library clerk, BTW. At least until someone realizes I could be “America’s Susan Boyle” – except I’m a dog person and I have been kissed.)
As for this cover – you’re all focused on the two main people, but for me it’s the zombie skeleton behind the little Damion up in the left hand side.
October 20th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
“Luckily for me, this universe has excellent hair cream!”
October 20th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Is she giving him a wedgie?
October 20th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Actually, his hands, although oversized and gnarled, aren’t bad. This artist seems to be competent on the details, but falls apart on overall anatomy and composition.
Captain Smirk’s hands are too big and his head is too big (competently painted, though, but smug-looking) and his neck is too thick and there’s something weird and flat about his torso which the gun sort of covers and his hips are way narrow and his legs start oddly low on his body.
Her sleeve is empty between wrist and shoulder. I can see what’s wrong with her hand, but I’m not sure I can describe it well. All hands have a sort of grace, even clumsy ones, which isn’t here. Also, human fingers follow an arc of changing size and proportion which isn’t here either.
October 21st, 2011 at 12:55 am
Our hero is wearing thermal underwear because outer space can be chilly. The alien gal is poking his shoulder to see how much meat is on his bones.
October 24th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
I see on the lower left side it says “Complete Novel”….does this mean that “incomplete novels” have been published in the past?!
October 25th, 2011 at 7:16 am
Wow, Eddie Munster grew up weird.
Also it turns out you can read this online: http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=J46GYZHE
June 29th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
We must sympathize with Cpt Dirk here. It’s obvious he desperately needs to go to the toilet. He’s trying to hold it (he wouldn’t want to ruin his best jumpsuit), hence the posture.
May 24th, 2014 at 2:26 pm
‘Star Quest’ was the galaxy’s highest-rated talent show. The 25th Century Simon Cowell was, like all the judges, armed. But he wore his trousers the same peculiar way. This, as much as the quality of the entrants depicted behind him and the half-melted android Cheryl Cole, is why he is wincing.
July 17th, 2014 at 1:20 am
Seikai Series, the badly-drawn years.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:47 am
The evil yellow head is clearly Evil Mind-Controlled Luke Skywalker. I mean seriously, no one else has notice the resemblance?