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Click for full imageThe Tim’s Art Direction:Give me a dude in front of a pyramid with some spikey armor. No, more spikes. More. Still not enough spikes. More spikes! More!
Published 1991
(Average: 4.27 out of 10)
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The Tim’s Art Direction:Give me a dude in front of a pyramid with some spikey armor. No, more spikes. More. Still not enough spikes. More spikes! More!
Published 1991
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May 17th, 2013 at 10:17 am
No, no, no. This is in fact quite accurate.
May 17th, 2013 at 10:20 am
“Could you help me? I’m stuck to the wall.”
May 17th, 2013 at 10:21 am
If anything, not nearly enough spikes on the Shrike. And he’s short two arms.
May 17th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Catch!
May 17th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Plot summary of THE FALL OF HYPERION:
Look out, little baby Hyperion is falling! Aaaaaaaaah – oh, caught him. What are you looking at, Spiky? You didn’t do a thing to help.
May 17th, 2013 at 10:37 am
@Ewan: I would agree there. Still not enough spikes. That thing is supposed to be the Spiky Monster out of Time. This just looks like a man-in-a-suit. I read this same edition, and it’s always bothered me.
Is the old guy going to throw his baby at his enemy and hope it sticks?
May 17th, 2013 at 11:54 am
Wait…that’s a baby the man is holding? I thought it was some kind of weirdly shaped alien with one giant yellow eye.
May 17th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
@THX
“They glued … my butt … to the wall” he croaked, as the front-runner in this year’s 4x400m baby-holding relay race sprinted past.
May 17th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
There was once a Mrs Spike. They’re sex life was terrible. She was a sharp-tongued woman who would keep needling him about it. Her barbs really stuck with him. He got the point. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to nail her. There was something wrong with his prick.
May 17th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
I think your green-screen SFX technology has failed to matt in your usual background, ‘Scuzzy Second-hand Bookshop Locale’.
May 17th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Head on over here for some extra fun today: http://sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-plastic-toy-spacemen/#more-8303
May 17th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
In the Spring of Hyperion, he grows the leaves back.
May 17th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Yeah this pretty much exactly captures a scene out of the book (except as mentioned: needs more spikes/arms). All three sequels are likewise appropriately illustrated, it’s kind of uncanny.
May 17th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
@Bibliomancer 9—I keep looking for the one bad pun not already included in your tour de force post, but can’t seem to find one. You’ve really pinned him to the wall.
May 17th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
That guy is not going to win father of the year, i can tell you that!
What is with Mr Spikeys dainty, frail hands??
May 17th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
“Hey buddy, my baby is thirsty, can you juice some carrots for me?”
May 17th, 2013 at 3:56 pm
“Baby for sale! Fresh hot baby for sale! Hey there,uh…mister? You look like a gourmand (quiet kid!). Tasty fresh baby! Tender and juicy! You won’t find any finer in these parts. Here, take a look. Looks yummy, yeah? “
May 17th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Go ahead, all of you, make fun of me. In a few years I will be a fully formed Face Tree at the height of my powers, whatever they are.
May 17th, 2013 at 5:45 pm
With the wind I can’t tell if he is attempting a bald spot hiding comb over or not.
May 18th, 2013 at 10:02 am
@fred: well, he’s already qualified for the BALDNESS tag I see. But he snuck under the Tag Wizard’s radar with his BEARD-WIELDING.
May 18th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Spiky Guy is clearly Mr Lordi, of Finnish Eurovision fame. The baby’s got some lungs on him, though; one yell has blown away dad’s wig and is making his cape billow.
Dad and Lordi seem to be casting shadows in opposite directions, somehow.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:39 am
Er… to whom does the “hunk†tag refer? The old geezer? Spikey? The baby?
May 18th, 2013 at 12:26 pm
@RachelJ: the hunk of rock in the background?
May 18th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
@Rachel & Dead Stuff. This was an admin tag. The Tim’s hand? GSS Admin’s reflection in the monitor as he prepped the post? >:D
@Phil, I confess to having assumed that Cloaky was a mere wearer rather than wielder of the beard. But should he be carrying it as a weapon.. well, that threatens to changes the constitution of the whole image.
@Tat Wood. Perhaps the light source is the baby.
May 20th, 2013 at 3:52 am
I just can’t shake the feeling that this picture is a prequel to this:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/04/under-heavens-bridge/
May 20th, 2013 at 3:54 am
By the way, is it just me, or are there a bunch of sand-induced tings! here? And one on Mr. Spiky’s shoulder?
May 20th, 2013 at 7:33 am
Focusing on the baby I can’t shake the notion that it is singing “ride of the valkyries” at the the top of it’s lungs.
May 21st, 2013 at 5:45 pm
I always wondered why the tag for children was “evil children”. Seemed a tad judgmental. But if we have an infant that’s glowing and bellowing Wagner, then yeah, EVIL.
May 22nd, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Dan Simmons wrote an early ending which he later changed:
“The Shrike writhed helplessly in the yellow avalanche of Post-It notes, and was defeated. THE END.”
May 30th, 2013 at 9:30 pm
In the context of the novel this is a good cover. If anything the Shrike is not imposing enough.
May 30th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
This is true, Neal, as is so often the way with the odd world of sci-fi book covers.
You have some pretty awesome covers (and an infinislicker website) yourself! Nice work!