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Click for full imageMichelle G Comments: Why did you think a giant bubble would sell books?
Editor: Shut up! That’s why!
Published 1979
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(Average: 7.24 out of 10)
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Michelle G Comments: Why did you think a giant bubble would sell books?
Editor: Shut up! That’s why!
Published 1979
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August 20th, 2013 at 9:57 am
Looks like she’s about to pop his bubble, if ya know what I mean!!!
*nudge nudge, wink wink*
August 20th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Space harlots don’t age very gracefully. All that radiation really ravages their good looks.
August 20th, 2013 at 11:12 am
“Good God, woman, how much more zorbing can you force me to do?!”
August 20th, 2013 at 11:14 am
Yay, Larry Niven’s back with his STAR WARS-logo font.
But ewwww, nasty cleavage. Where’s the sheep when you need it?
August 20th, 2013 at 11:22 am
Glenn Close’s head and Twiggy’s body.
August 20th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Mattel’s man in space, Major Matt Mason, was an inspiration to Sci-Fi cover artists everywhere.
http://www.majormattmason.net/6345.htm
August 20th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Sarah Brightman ought really to think twice before redoing her old material.
Sadly, many of the ludicrous features here are plot-points, but not the orange Captain Zep zig-zag on his back-pack.
August 20th, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Judging by the red slash marks, it looks like she’s been whipping that bubble with the rod in her hand. I don’t even want to contemplate what “plot points” these images may correspond to.
August 20th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
What exactly is that facial hair thing on spacesuit boy?
August 20th, 2013 at 7:05 pm
Niven? Niven? Where the hell is James White? I told Sector General I needed a tiny gynecologist with a tiny inner-space vehicle. I mean, godamit! It’s not like I asked for some “Fantastic Voyage” micro-sub.
August 20th, 2013 at 8:29 pm
I am not sure if its the bubble that has our hero so frightened or the prospect of snu-snu with Hooty McBoobity.
I am digging the rich corinthian leather interior on bubble-bike.
August 20th, 2013 at 9:28 pm
[EPIC TEXT CRAWL, ACCOMPANIED BY FANFARES]
LARRY NIVEN
Episode IV: A New Dope
It is a time of silly wear (the 70s).
Striking from a small hidden office,
a desperate band of book editors have successfully
attacked the empire of SF with idiotic covers.
But the reading public is secretly amassing a powerful FAN FORCE which,
when reaching critical mass, spell certain doom
for the editors’ rebellion…
August 20th, 2013 at 10:59 pm
I also think we have another forearm/perspective issue. Don’t they cover anatomy in Bad Sci-Fi Cover Art class anymore?
August 21st, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Obviously a low spec model bubble spaceship. Doesn’t even have a cup holder.
August 21st, 2013 at 7:37 pm
This new remake of “The Wizard of Oz” is weird… (“Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”)
August 22nd, 2013 at 6:03 am
I wanted to read this book, but it ran out of time.
August 26th, 2013 at 9:03 am
“Hello, I’d like to buy some dilithium crystals…”
“Sorry love, we’re all out of dilithium, new shipment coming next week.”
“Okay, how about a load of quantum chips?”
“Fresh out. Sorry.”
“Oh, I’ll just wait here for a new shipment then…”
“Sorry, you can’t wait here, we’re out of time.”
August 27th, 2013 at 9:12 am
Why is everyone so certain that the individual on the ground is male? I see no defining characteristics one way or another. Bad hair and a horrible outfit could
go either way considering the time frame of publication. Considering as well the fact that Star Wars had come out two years prior and, well, that is an awfully cheesy ‘spacesuit’. Topped only by the canal navigational beacon helmet upon the ground tbere.
Ghastly woman versus androgynous space git? Unless it includes a cassette tape soundtrack by David Bowie I’ll just be moving on to the O section on the shelves.
August 27th, 2013 at 9:47 am
Fëar – in line with my thinking. Space suited person on the ground is actually Bubble Witch from the past. Dissonance sends her writhing to the floor in psychic agony.
August 28th, 2013 at 5:24 am
@FöM—I’d say “male” because, judging from the haircut, I think it might be Ken Burns.
August 28th, 2013 at 8:42 pm
“Shut up! That’s why!” The answer to so many questions.
In French: “Tais toi! C’est pourquoi!”
In German: “Halt den mund! Das ist warum!”
Alternative translations and other languages welcome.
August 29th, 2013 at 1:22 am
@DC:
In Cristabel: ‘Manalacor! Of Veltakin!’
August 29th, 2013 at 2:49 am
“Yawl shudda hayl up. Zwai.” East Texan.
August 29th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
“Bek dicht! Daarom!” Dutch.
“Awel ge maakt een graptjen, zenne!” Flemish.
August 29th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Zitto! Ecco perché!—Italian
¡Cállate! ¡Por eso!—Spanish
Gid oudda hea I’ll show youse why!—Brooklyn
August 30th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Potući Äemo se, batalit’ chu te, glavanyo!
August 31st, 2013 at 1:36 am
Tarra Khash–Hrossak!–Lumleyz
September 3rd, 2013 at 2:58 am
I’d contribute, but I fear my linguistic abilities are sadly below par.
Look, did they have actual Star Wars novels yet in 1979? Maybe Niven’s publishers were hoping for obsessed Warsies to buy his books by mistake. (Come to think of it, could *that* explain the “Weirdstone†cover?)
July 30th, 2014 at 10:20 pm
Clarifying 18-21, that is a gentleman space traveller cowering before a time traveling crone. I’ll skip the part about Uranus being the key to man’s destiny.
August 1st, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Personally, if I was him I’d stick around for a week or so and get an education. By the looks of the universe, everything has gone to hell; and it it would sure beat sitting around eating space-food sticks and watching re-runs of Benny Hill.
The mental scars would take some healing, but space is deep. Just ask Hawkwind.
December 21st, 2014 at 1:39 am
If you all bothered to actually read the story before commenting on this artwork, you’d find that Peter Andrew Jones did a great job in being faithful to Larry Niven’s plot points.
You are free to hate the art, and you are also free to show your ignorance…
It’s a great story and covers 3 million years of human stupidity and decadence and what really will likely become of civilization in regards to it’s downfall.
Just my 2 cents… ( yeah, I know… Inflation)
August 25th, 2015 at 1:26 am
That man’s clearly scared and confused because he’s just been unexpectedly teleported into a bad surrealist painting.
February 23rd, 2016 at 12:09 am
‘Mrs. Doubtfire, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?’