Sep 05
Click for full imageD Plover Comments: Having looked at this often, I realise that the most startling thing about this cover is not the anxious bird man, the three arsed lady or the giant foot, but the super-neon numeral 4 that’s blasting out of the cover!
Published 1967
(Average: 8.83 out of 10)
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September 5th, 2012 at 9:35 am
it works in the way that now I really want to read this book to see if there is any sense/explanation to the cover
September 5th, 2012 at 9:36 am
And now for something completely different…
September 5th, 2012 at 10:53 am
How many bottoms can one person have?
September 5th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Don’t look so scared, Wile E. Coyote, I just asked her if she would care to sit down… sit down… sit down?
September 5th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
The cover is missing the ‘ZX’ before ‘Spectrum’.
September 5th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Awww! Pat beat me to it!
September 5th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Isn’t this the EXACT content of a Monty Python sketch? A man with a weird nose, a person with three buttocks, a giant foot falls out of the sky… bloody plagiarism!
September 5th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Concept art for Total Recall 2?
September 5th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
The cover artist really bottomed out on this one. Or the art direction caught him flat-footed. Either way I bet he was the butt of a lot of jokes.
Frankly, I find this cover assinine.
September 5th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
On earth, we got occasional jokes like the platypus or the common street pigeon. On this planet… evolution fully took the piss.
September 5th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Is it a three-arsed woman, or is it a double-decker piggy-back? Either way, Good Show, Sir!
I am liking the chest-clawing of the mohican-haired Coyote-man.
September 5th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Some questions you should never ask, such as what does she look like from the front?
September 6th, 2012 at 2:20 am
@THX: Or, what will her front look like when gravity has its way with her?
September 6th, 2012 at 6:11 am
I would not want to be the person who had to design a toilet for a three-assed populace.
September 6th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
What the hell.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Awesome! I’m not going to criticize the artist whatsoever. Any fool can sit around and paint triple-arsed ladies on their own time. This artist got paid to do it! You don’t pass up a chance like that because it’s not going to come around again. Good show, Sir!
September 8th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Weird. I suddenly have a strange compulsion to say “it’s”
It’s.
There.
(Also, that’s not even a real beak.)
September 11th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
The coyote man looks sad because he has no opposing thumbs.
“My kingdom for thumbs!”
September 17th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
I see that Cordwainer Smith has a story in this anthology. That would be “A Planet Called Shayol” – piss off the Instrumentality of Mankind and they dump you on Shayol, where your body becomes horribly mutated. The giant foot sticks in my memory, and that would explain three-arsed woman. Dunno about Coyote Man, though.
January 20th, 2013 at 8:06 pm
Most of that is actually in the story it’s illustrating!
May 24th, 2013 at 5:19 am
I just realized those aren’t butt-cheeks on the hooded woman. They are breasts.
Eyurghh… It feels like this cover just took a big ol’ dump in my brain.
March 27th, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Spectrum XZ – An anthology of the source code listings of the best games selected by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest
July 27th, 2018 at 3:10 pm
If the Pharaoh’s had entombed themselves in giant feet instead of pyramids history would be radically different.
July 27th, 2018 at 4:46 pm
a cel from the long-lost ‘Revolution 9’ scene of ‘Yellow Submarine’.
July 27th, 2018 at 5:48 pm
♫ Come, they told me, a bum, bum, bum, bum. ♫
July 27th, 2018 at 6:07 pm
(I guess I have an extra bum in there. Of course, she has two extra bums in there.)
July 27th, 2018 at 7:51 pm
Does she even know ahead of time which bum she will defecate from? It must be a total crap shoot.
July 28th, 2018 at 3:12 am
Assuming she matches on the front, once a month she’s an ellipsis.
(I am so sorry.)
July 28th, 2018 at 4:49 am
Back Door Beauty?
July 28th, 2018 at 6:07 am
I remember the Smith story (“A Planet Called Shayol”) well. What you see is boobs: Jerk of all Trades @21 was right. The lady in question did indeed have 3 torsos, stacked vertically like a doubled version of ShRil (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=5105) rotated 90 degrees. I’ll leave you with that thought.