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Click for full imagePhil Comments: I may be skewered and chained inside this crystalline tesseract, but at least I’ve got the TV for company. A shame it’s…pressing…down…on my…chest…
Published 2012
(Average: 8.81 out of 10)
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Phil Comments: I may be skewered and chained inside this crystalline tesseract, but at least I’ve got the TV for company. A shame it’s…pressing…down…on my…chest…
Published 2012
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June 4th, 2013 at 9:28 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Brain Movies Vol 2 http://t.co/J13g7JygUW
June 4th, 2013 at 9:59 am
“It’s a great new innovation – just a pity all the shows are broadcast upside down.”
June 4th, 2013 at 10:42 am
VIDEODROME 2: The DVD Strikes Back
June 4th, 2013 at 10:43 am
Jewelry catalog. Pretty pastels. Belly telly. TV movies. Stomach brains. Chains. Bondage. Tight jeans. Kirk shirt. Male dancer. Pelvic thrusting. Whee! Boy toy. Bieber lookalike. Dangerless visions.
June 4th, 2013 at 10:57 am
@Tom Hering: you could have added the Ellisonian tag “Glass Teat”.
June 4th, 2013 at 11:23 am
@ Phil, yeah, but then he’d clearly be in need of a bra, and my mind can’t handle images like that.
Seinfeld. Moobs. Man bra. “The bro.”
June 4th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
@Tom Hering, fair point, we don’t have a ‘Whee!’ tag and I don’t see why not.
Now to go through 900 terrible book covers for super-tagging fun. Whee!
The other ones … who wants to contemplate a GSS where such tags are widespread?
Also, worst ab-tanning sunroom ever.
June 4th, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Feet are so hard to draw. And are those mom jeans?
The aspect ratio of this book cover bothers me. It’s not like any other hardcover, trade paperback or mass market paperback. Is this a children’s board book?
Does Patton Oswalt’s introduction include a couple of pages of comedic mockery of Jill Bauman’s cover art?
Yes, this cover is a whole steaming pile of WTF.
June 4th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
***SPAM*** New Program Helped Me Flatten My Stomach!!!!!
June 4th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
@ Bibliomancer, this is the second of four volumes of Ellison’s television scripts. I suppose the format allows for all those indented parts. Believe it or not, the publisher’s description ends, “And a beautiful new cover by World Fantasy Award-nominated artist Jill Bauman.” http://www.cafepress.com/harlanellison/9464696
And I just discovered that Harlan Ellison® is, hilariously, a registered trademark. http://www.cafepress.com/harlanellison
June 4th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
What bizarre chain of events conspired to produce this cover?!?
June 4th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
@ The Tag Wizard, I agree it would prove unbearably disturbing if those others tags were used regularly. Only if absolutely necessary.
June 4th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
@Tag Wizard, someone mentioned elsewhere that we need an Orson tag for David Mattingly covers where we’ve spotted his fabled feline. There are at least three on this site and I’m sure more to come.
June 4th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Bang on! I’ll strive to Orson the site up before our next visit from the I Can Haz talent scouts.
June 4th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
@Bibliomancer, the book contains facsimile reproduction of screenplays and teleplays, so the page aspect ratio reflects the US Letter page aspect ratio since this is the paper size used for film scripts.
June 4th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
He looks far too happy about the situation for it not to be sexual or drug-related. Is looking at the cover kind of uncomfortable because of the sense of voyeurism, or because it’s just so darn bad?
June 4th, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Damn typos. The title is actually Brian Movies.
And smile all you like, Brian — I’m still not convinced that you’d get “better reception” if I would just help you take off your pants. It sounds like a trick.
June 4th, 2013 at 3:52 pm
The cover art to font ratio is ridiculously high. I propose an ‘anti-Baen’ tag for this type of cover.
June 4th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Hah! My® brain movies are bigger and shinier than Harlan Ellison’s!
June 4th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
I guess this cover is explanation enough for why none of Ellison’s Steaming Pile of Bran Movies® ever made it to the screen, small or large.
@B’Mancer—wasn’t the title of this script originally “The Aspect Ratio from Hell”?
June 4th, 2013 at 6:27 pm
@B.Chiclitz — More like “Harlan Ellison’s Bowel Movies”, a.k.a. “I Have No Anus and I Must Scream”
Hey Harlan, how’s that “Last Dangerous Visions” book coming along? Should I pre-order it on Amazon?
June 4th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
My brain couldn’t accept that this cover was designed in 2012, so I was actually relived when I saw the date 1997 under Jill’s signature.
June 4th, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Oh man you are all getting sued!!! H.E. throws around lawsuits like monkeys throw poo poo. 🙂
June 4th, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Huh. Seems Edgeworks Abbey was founded by Ellison® and his wife to publish Ellison’s® old and new works. Which makes it likely Ellison® commissioned and/or approved this cover. So, I guess everyone has their bad days. Authors … publishers … established but now self-publishing authors … everyone. And people who actually work as art directors, and are good at it, are worth their weight in gold.
June 4th, 2013 at 8:37 pm
Looks like someone got the covers for the SF book and the Business Studies textbook mixed up.
June 4th, 2013 at 9:32 pm
“…relived…”
Sorry. Relieved.
June 4th, 2013 at 10:23 pm
@B. Chiclitz As it turns out, there’s a Hugo winner and WGA winner contained within this compilation.
The cover might not be to everyone’s taste, hence its presence here, but as Fred says, it’s an excellent counter-example of the Baen style!
We were fortunate enough to receive a visit from Mr Ellison a few years ago (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2650). In fact, the artist of our first Ellison cover also dropped in a couple of months back. Honorable times!
June 4th, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Mr Ellison may be currently the world’s angriest man, but I do love his writing, which can easily survive daft covers like this.
June 5th, 2013 at 5:17 am
@ HE fans. All points conceded. All in good fun. Recycling one’s own work has a long and honorable history. Anyway if you check my remark you will see it was directed to the registered trademark “Harlan Ellison®,” not to the actual human being; poking fun at a commodity isn’t the same as teasing a person.
June 5th, 2013 at 9:34 am
😀
June 5th, 2013 at 10:06 am
@ B. Chiclitz: Don’t worry, I’m not the world’s angriest man, Harlan is. GSS is a place to be deeply silly, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
June 5th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
@THX 1138—oh dude I am all about the “deeply silly.” Just ask my perpetually annoyed friends. Dada now and forever! Thanks for understanding.
June 5th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
The dark underbelly of Emerald City…
June 5th, 2013 at 9:20 pm
You mean he’s the Sub Of a Different Channel?
(OK, OK, that one was too clever for its own good.)
June 6th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
So that’s the crystal tits – where’s Alistair?
June 6th, 2013 at 8:23 pm
He’s so happy. He must be on crystal-meth 😛
June 8th, 2013 at 7:05 pm
I keep looking.
I keep seeing the same thing.
Disco porn.
Ewwww.
August 2nd, 2013 at 5:48 pm
and he’s chained to a cannon
August 2nd, 2013 at 6:00 pm
But of course he is. Cannon tag added.
September 28th, 2014 at 12:39 pm
A half-nude lady with a chain round her wrists and armour on her nips? Done before.
A half-nude gentleman with a chain round his wrists and the BBC on his nips? Good show, sir!
September 28th, 2014 at 2:14 pm
I…ummm….what is that? Or why is that?
Willing to accept the crystals and the gemstone vest and cannon. The douche-bag facial expression throws the whole thing off.
June 29th, 2018 at 8:49 am
Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the Apple watch didn’t turn out to be as ergonomic as Jony Ive intended.
June 29th, 2018 at 9:42 am
I think this would have been the tribute Harlan would have wanted.
June 29th, 2018 at 1:13 pm
Harlan probably has an anthology ready to go to print after his death. About all the possible things he could have done with his corpse and the future ramifications of each choice.
June 29th, 2018 at 7:33 pm
It looks like a cut scene from the Mike Nelson MST3K. Was it the bots or the mads that did this to him?
June 29th, 2018 at 8:02 pm
Could’a been worse… could’a been Prince Robot’s father, from Saga…
http://imagecomics.wikia.com/wiki/King_Robot_(Saga)
June 29th, 2018 at 10:36 pm
@JuanPaul: Well, the bots did tie him up for the “can’t we just get beyond Thunderdome” joke.
June 30th, 2018 at 1:11 am
@Tor I nearly cheered when they nailed that joke in the new series!
June 30th, 2018 at 7:48 am
Harlan did always enjoy making people laugh. And here we are.
June 30th, 2018 at 6:06 pm
@JuanPaul: What ep was that in the new series? My recall for the reboot isn’t nearly so encyclopedic. (Google translate: encyclopaedic.)