Apr 03
Click for full imageBibliomancer’s Art Direction:OK so you painted an awesome space fire monster, and the iron moons are cool, and you even got the starfield in the corner, but aren’t you forgetting something? Yeah, girl ass. And make it blue. She’s an alien. You think these paperbacks just sell themselves?”
Published 1971
(Average: 5.42 out of 10)
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April 3rd, 2013 at 9:46 am
“That’s it – next time I use the sunbed.”
April 3rd, 2013 at 2:02 pm
“And how would you like your Cajun Blackened Char-burger cooked, Mr. Hellscorcher?”
April 3rd, 2013 at 2:24 pm
“He’s one hell of a christmas tree decorator, but he does burn a few balls!”
April 3rd, 2013 at 3:20 pm
“Pay no attention to the fiery tendrils slipping up your right leg. Of course I respect you for your mind, tiny as it and you are. What? No I am not a fire elf! It’ s the ears, isn’t it?”
April 3rd, 2013 at 5:53 pm
“I like blue butts, and I cannot lie…”
April 3rd, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Fire dude must have a hell of a time finding a dentist.
April 3rd, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Between the distant stars lay terror.
Between the nearby stars lay joy, and security, and ice cream for everybody!
April 3rd, 2013 at 10:22 pm
*sings* “heyyyy … your sex is on fire …”
April 4th, 2013 at 4:09 am
Aw shucky darn, this was in my queue but this copy’s not so frayed around its edges. Anyway, my thought was who’s really feeling the terror here, blue girl or space fire monster?
Kelly Freas was a master, but he does seem to have enjoyed working uncovered lasses into his SF cover art. He’s not alone in that, and I’m sure it sold some books! Examples to be appearing in Our Good Host’s slush pile soonish.
April 4th, 2013 at 5:19 am
I actually kind of like this cover. It’s cheesy, but in a classic way.
April 4th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Fire? No, of course I’m not made of fire. Fire can’t exist in space. It would be as absurd as a naked blue woman stand atop an iron moon. I am made of crepe paper streamers that give a fiery effect when whipped by interstellar winds. Nice bum, by the way.
April 4th, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Her bum makes me think of ‘Dougal and the Blue Cat’
April 17th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Did anyone else read the title as “The Ballad of Beta…Between the 2 distant stars lay terror”?
October 15th, 2013 at 2:32 am
Between the distant stars lay badonkadonk!
December 11th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
By the way, this was much inferior to The Ballad of Beta 1. I hate it when publishers make authors pump out cheap sequels!
August 27th, 2015 at 2:26 am
Is she supposed to be a naked blue alien girl, or an alien woman in a sleeveless blue catsuit?
March 21st, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Anyone else see the face on her posterior? The two dots just above the vertical split and all….
No?
March 21st, 2016 at 3:37 pm
@Jon K: I said that three years ago, if a little obliquely. http://www.listal.com/movie/pollux-et-le-chat-bleu/pictures
March 21st, 2016 at 4:22 pm
@Tat: Oops, sorry. Pardon my USA-centrism. 🙂
February 25th, 2017 at 3:16 pm
@AS: Indeed…perhaps the distant terror is at a stable LaGrange point?
September 26th, 2017 at 9:25 pm
A Snog of Ice and Fire
I’m fairly certain I’m the first one to make that joke, ever.
September 26th, 2017 at 9:28 pm
@DSWBT – More like A Song of Ass and Fire. Amirite?
September 26th, 2017 at 10:16 pm
@B’mancer: Amirite is right here, my good man. 😉