Sep 20
Clay Comments:This junior-high rendition of what seems to be a mad scientist and his platinum-haired babe along with their webbed victims has absolutely nothing to do with this book. Bryant is a very literary writer with a New Wave bent.
Published 1974
September 20th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Not much to say about this one, it’s just dull. The artist seems to have put a lot of effort into our hero’s left hand. If only he had drawn the wrong number of fingers, it might have turned into something interesting.
September 20th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
I agree with Phil. I had to count the fingers on that hand, the pinky looks too long.
September 20th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
It’s Captain Picard!
September 20th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
“Wait – aren’t the cryogenics chambers supposed to be plugged in there?”
September 20th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Same here. My eye immediately strayed to that hand with all the fingers too close to the same length.
I like that tacked on addition to the title though. “and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse.” You can add it to almost anything.
The Naked Sun… and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse
The Second Experiment … and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse
Cooking with Rachel Ray … and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse
September 20th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
@Yoss: Listening to Phil, Ian, THX and everyone else stare at that hand… and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse.
September 20th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
She’s standing flat on the floor, he’s on an incline. An odd mismatch for so carefully-coordinated a pair. Maybe he’s skateboarding.
(Dunno about Picard; he seems more like Locke from ‘Lost’, with a young Bette Davis in a Gabrielle-Drake-in-UFO wig).
Let’s hope they didn’t use the same artist on ‘Cinnabar’.
September 20th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Picard? No, Stanley Holloway!
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSETGIZn0vCZOmhqKo_U0w66jFGRbRq_VBA6AY6MM61QAiZNo1Q
September 21st, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Lovey, is that killer onion still behind us? I can barely see from our last encounter.
September 21st, 2012 at 9:38 pm
You *might* be able to interpret the look on his face as detecting a foul odor. Which there would certainly be, among the dead.
September 22nd, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Among the Dead and Other Titles Being Both Pretentious and Overlong
September 25th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
I’m just happy to see what looks like a middle-aged couple on a cover, instead of variously bulging nineteenies.
Whatever they’re looking at, he seems more worried by it than she does. *searches for some kind of gender-based joke and fails to think of one*
October 1st, 2012 at 10:16 am
Apocalpse Meh
March 2nd, 2014 at 10:29 pm
‘…they’re all dead!‘
‘Mm, rawther. Best get on with the apocalypse, then.’
December 15th, 2015 at 12:38 am
Resembles the supporting cast of around half of the Jimmy Kirk Star Trek stories.
April 5th, 2020 at 5:14 pm
Running out of toilet paper while binge-watching Bake Off… and other events leading to the Apocalypse.
April 6th, 2020 at 12:21 am
The Dead are wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in baking tins for maximum cooking convenience.
April 6th, 2020 at 12:25 am
@Tat: Eating all the cookies in the house and spending too much time on Facebook… and other events leading to the Apocalypse.
I really expected the apocalypse to be much noisier, so this must not be it yet.
My copy of “Cinnabar” is the first paperback edition (with the typo Ed hand-corrected when he signed it) and it’s got a cover that matches the text.
Ed was the first real published author I ever met, and I still miss him. Last time I saw GRRM, we had an “absent friends” toast.
Ah, for the days we were young and thin, and one of us wasn’t worth ridiculous amounts of money.
April 6th, 2020 at 6:30 am
Ah, so it’s a guide to current events, then.
@Tat: never thought I’d see the day that I got excited when my roommate came home from a shopping foray and announced that she found toilet paper….
April 6th, 2020 at 7:21 am
Can’t even find those novelty rolls, especially the ones with a certain orange-ish face decorating each sheet. Never more reason than now to use those.
April 7th, 2020 at 1:26 am
@BC: Doing to him what he’s doing to us.
I read today that in a very very few cases, people with a low viral load of Covid can have mostly digestive symptoms. What a bad time for that!
April 7th, 2020 at 6:01 am
@GSSxn—By the way—you and the whole GSS posse—stay intact everyone. Let’s make sure we all observe safe cyber distancing!
July 25th, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Am I missing some comments? Am I really the first person who thinks this is Bezos launching his killer Amazon Prime drones to start the Apocalypse?
July 25th, 2022 at 11:50 pm
@JJYoyo: GSS! Who knew this cover would be so prescient! Presumably the dead are Amazon workers who dropped from no breaks, no calling of 911/999, heat exhaustion, etc.
Unless they’re The Dead, but Jerry Garcia’s been gone for a while and all their stuff was much more colorful that this dull cover.
July 26th, 2022 at 12:55 am
When Clay submitted this cover in 2012, he had no idea that, once on GSS, it’s like a good Star Trek rerun that we’d enjoy again and again as relates to current events and other worldly strangeness that has become our reality…