Apr 10
Click for full imageRichard Comments: The spaceman in the foreground is both scared and turned on.
Published 1969
(Average: 6.93 out of 10)
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Richard Comments: The spaceman in the foreground is both scared and turned on.
Published 1969
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April 10th, 2012 at 10:45 am
“HAARRRYY!!! I’m back and I’m armed!”
April 10th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Err … more like “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
April 10th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
The publisher uses the slogan “A Science Fiction Blockbuster” the way Disney labels its products “A Disney CLASSIC” immediately upon release…
April 10th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Castaways of the universe — marooned on a lost planet of war-crazed females!
ESCAPE FROM BACHMANN’S WORLD
April 10th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Oh, erm, I misread that as ‘maroon on a lost planet’. And it does look rather maroon. Easy to lose a planet like that on a maroon background, natch.
April 10th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Should read “war-crazed, clothing allergic females.”
April 10th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Isn’t this a Futurama episode?
April 10th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Tallest pelvis ever.
April 10th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
A masterful use of reflectivity by the artist to inform the possible purchaser of this fine book that the approaching horde is equipped with breasts as well as swords and shields.
April 10th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
I’m a bit scared to read the book; in the first paragraph it has this sentence:
“He must have crippled a good few of him, and their friends had kicked him to death rather leisurely while the discussion about what to do with the surviving officers and loyal crewmen went on.”
The back cover blurb is nearly as awesome as the cover, too:
“Rond and his crew had been left to die slowly on an unknown planet.
As they moved warily through the alien forest they heard the eerie rhythms coming toward them.
Then they saw the grotesque figures.
A BIZARRE ARMY OF SCREAMING WOMEN!
Masked, brandishing gleaming swords, rattling their terrible death drunsm howling with the fury of some primitive blood lust – and they were attacking!
As the scarlet waves of growling women approached, Rond and his men began to run – back into the dark forest of looming horror…”
SOLD!
April 10th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
And people say SF is lacking credible female characters, the fools.
April 10th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Forget the book cover! That is the best location for a cover photo. Was it hard to balance?
April 10th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
@Richard: That doesn’t sound like much of a mutiny. Perhaps they misspelt “misogyny”?
April 10th, 2012 at 9:52 pm
I doubt those women are very effective fighters if that’s the best-designed bra they can come up with.
April 10th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
@Ian – you’d think it would be, right? But no! 😀
@Dead Stuff – Ha! Yes. Thing is, this was published in 1964 (this is the second printing from 1969); I’d like to think that at least somebody would have considered that sort of thing backwards nonsense. 🙁
April 10th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
@Richard..that “maroon” prose makes the cover almost palatable! ye gods!
April 10th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
I see the astronaut from the Den Of The Dragon has exchanged his pencil for a hairdryer. Probably because backpack-powered hairdryers are the only thing WAR-CRAZED FEMALES! are afraid of?
April 11th, 2012 at 1:05 am
Those females! Always crazed about something! War, sex, oddly-fitting clothing. I tell ya what.
April 11th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
That would be a cool rocket if it were straight. Also why is the Astronaut holding his gun like that?
April 12th, 2012 at 3:21 am
Also wasn’t Mutiny in space a SF film about a colony ship that got MST3K’d?
May 22nd, 2012 at 7:16 pm
“We want Snoo-Snoo!”