Aug 12
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Charles Comments: “You can have this Earth when you pry it from my cold undying hands.”
Published 1980
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anatomical issues • Clifford D. Simak • dude • glow • gravestones • H.R. Van Dongen
Apr 26
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Ryan Comments: After his third glass of whiskey, Cowboy Joe began to suspect his companion was a man dressed as a woman.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • damsel • dance fever • David Mattingly • drunkie • dude • floating head • Joe Clifford Faust
Feb 01
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Ryan’s Art Direction: “The story is called, ‘Rocket Jockey’, so draw some spaceships orbiting Jupiter along with a trash-compactor-carrying milkman wielding a plumber’s tool.”
Published 1982
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • David Mattingly • dude • keg • Lester Del Rey • monkey wrench • nerd • rocket
Jan 19
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Ryan Comments: Is the first of the stories about restraining a gigantic alien and performing multiple amputations, in space?
Published 1987
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • David Mattingly • font problems • James White • space cadets • space ship • strange creature • strapping outfit
Oct 22
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Ryan Comments: I don’t think that the blurb writer understands how time works. And the illustrator has some interesting ideas about what occurs underwater.
Tag Wizard: And that brings Ryan Week to an end here at GSS. Thanks for the mother lode of covers.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anorak • Ballantine Books • beard-wielding • boat people • Darrell K. Sweet • dudes • font problems • he's dead Jim • searchlights • underwater • Wilson Tucker
Sep 14
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JuanPaul comments: One of the most dangerous jobs in the universe: harvesting space caviar.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • bubbles • David Schleinkofer • evil children • Geary Gravel • hand fake • starkers • wired
Mar 26
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Ryan Comments: Linda preferred the Woz’s version of the iPad, but Steve Jobs sensed it required too much support infrastructure to be commercially successful.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • beard-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • font problems • James P. Hogan • once you see it • ridiculous hat • SCIENCE! • What's on TV?
Aug 20
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J Greely Comments: The sticker can’t be removed without tearing the cover, so we’ll never know how snug this Gray’s pants are. Probably for the best.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • aliens • Ballantine Books • dude • font problems • Gary Viskupic • I'm all tied up right now • Judy-Lynn del Rey • ray gun • SFBC • space ship • Stellar Science Fiction Stories Series • sticker shock • wraparound cover
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