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Click for full imageJohn A H Comments: The future belongs to the designer egg timer people.
Published 1979
(Average: 6.63 out of 10)
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John A H Comments: The future belongs to the designer egg timer people.
Published 1979
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November 1st, 2011 at 10:16 am
“Hello, I am Eva.” “And I am Adele.” (Obscure Eurotrash reference).
November 1st, 2011 at 10:26 am
Travel to the future year 1982, when Art Deco-Droids rule the Earth!
November 1st, 2011 at 10:47 am
“The rotating restaurant waitress has no nose.”
“How does she smell?”
“Awful.”
November 1st, 2011 at 11:09 am
I have to admit I really do love the Penguin covers. I would take this on a bus with pride!
ANd I’m going to try and make me a set of those sunglasses!
November 1st, 2011 at 2:30 pm
After seeing this cover, I am definitely considering OTHER ways.
November 1st, 2011 at 3:48 pm
What does she look like without the airbrushing?
November 1st, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Wasn’t this a Grace Jones video?
Much as I like her egg-timer noggin, it’s her volume-control peepers that make this cover. I bet they go up to 11.
November 1st, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Wow, Rosy from the Jetsons has really lost a lot of weight!
November 1st, 2011 at 7:02 pm
She also has a touch of the Prof Farnsworth about her.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I rather like this one, actually. It was painted with skill with references to Art Deco and ’50s diner décor, and a nod to ’30s-era houses of the future. It’s got an early-80s Devo vibe, and really is not all that bad looking.
Even if the woman has no nose.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:54 pm
I like the star field background. It looks so tranquil–
Wait. Why is the rotating restaurant farting out of both ends?
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:35 am
Anyone else notice her head above the shades is a different color than below the shades? Her nose matches the top, maybe it’s one of those Groucho nose & glasses (and skull cap) things….
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:53 am
It’s also wider than her face on the left. It’s clearly some sort of hat.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Half robot. Half baseball. All woman!
September 29th, 2015 at 6:29 am
Fun fact (not a joke): ‘Consider Her Ways’ was adapted as an episode of ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Hour’ (1964), which I discovered quite by chance some five years ago on late night TV. Nestled amongst the usual Hitchcockian tales of murder & mystery, this feels like a seemingly misplaced ‘Twilight Zone’ episode. It’s very odd, quite surreal, and well worth tracking down.
September 29th, 2015 at 12:06 pm
Like putting lipstick on an egg.
No Racy Headdress is Her Wont
September 29th, 2015 at 7:54 pm
And, ladies and gentlemen, this skull cap is soooo versatile! Heavy windstorm causing household damage? No problem! The skull cap doubles as a spare roof!! Operators are standing by. Call before midnight so you don’t forget!
January 7th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
This is one of Peter Lord’s iconic covers for the entire oeuvre of John Wyndham. This book, with this cover, is eminently collectible. If you find it in a second-hand bookshop, get it – it’s exceedingly rare and is worth about £200 on the current Wyndham market.
January 7th, 2016 at 7:13 pm
Not bad for a book with an art-deco condom on the cover!
January 7th, 2016 at 9:06 pm
@admin: corner the Wyndham market! You’ll be making BUCKETS of money, and you won’t need to rely on Chinese GSS for financial support. 🙂
January 7th, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Grade I egg-head.
January 7th, 2016 at 11:22 pm
Hey Gang! Want to buy a lottery ticket? Seems all Penguin editions of this book for over a decade with many different covers have the same ISBN: 0-14-002231-7. Buy them all! You might get lucky.
Seems we need a new tag for covers that are terrible and worth big bucks. I was thinking of “worth a small fortune” but I’m sure you can do better.
January 7th, 2016 at 11:47 pm
Need to reinvest. Chinese Stock Market is collapsing. Was going to buy Vietnamese dongs but this Wyndham Market sounds intriguing. Tell me more.
January 8th, 2016 at 12:02 am
@Tag Wizard: ‘Ker-CHING!” perhaps?
January 8th, 2016 at 1:19 am
@TW: ‘priceless’. 😉
January 8th, 2016 at 3:13 am
@TW—second that, but I fear it will be a little used tag. @Chinese GSS—all in all, I say go with the dongs.
January 9th, 2016 at 10:48 am
@DSWBT#10: It’s rotating in order to spread it around.
Say, consider her other wands
January 9th, 2016 at 5:17 pm
Featuring the story “Consider Her Ways And Others”…
January 9th, 2016 at 8:19 pm
That’s Arnos Grove tube station, isn’t it? Or maybe Southgate. Possibly Chiswick Park. Somewhere on the Piccadilly line in Zone 4, anyway.
December 27th, 2020 at 7:35 am
@Tat Wood: I think it looks more like an Illinois Tollway Oasis, but those are usually on overpasses. No sign of a road here, but maybe her neck’s in the way.
http://www.illinoistollway.com/travel-information/oases
December 27th, 2020 at 8:16 pm
Dr. Frankenstein: “It was a rush job, OK? She was missing the top half of her head and I had to make do with what was on hand, which included my old radio.”
December 28th, 2020 at 2:03 pm
“I Have No Nose and I Must Smell.”
Yep, you sure do.
December 29th, 2020 at 5:29 am
@FGK: Ooo-eee, you got some fancy rest stops there in Illinois. Bet the buildings don’t fart, either.
It is definitely some sort of mass transit pavilion, we’re agreed.
December 29th, 2020 at 10:14 pm
@GSS E-N: Agreed. And they’re not THAT fancy.
December 29th, 2020 at 11:14 pm
@Tat: My vote is that it’s definitely Southgate. Maybe the artist lived out there and saw it every day on his commute.
@FGK: well, the ones in California are very utilitarian brick and concrete structures with restrooms, picnic benches, and sometimes vending machines, or if you’re really lucky, a food truck. Clean, though.
The market has stepped in to provide, of course — the private truck stops are small malls with convenience stores, fast food, sit-down restaurants, and showers. I recall seeing a few honest to gosh 8-track tapes still for sale in the late 80s! Both kinds of music — country AND Western.
(California is 770 miles long and largely rural. That’s a lot of rest stops needed.)