May 31
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Tat Wood Comments: I can’t come up with anything more damning than the blurb (crummy punctuation and all):
Post-Holocaust Paris is a pretty seedy stand-in for the original, but what can you expect when the government’s main aim is Orgasm Prevention, and when the national hero is wandering around in Nowhen…
But things are changing! Rumor hs it that the Timetraveler is coming back. In a few months. At which point, Time itself will come to an end…
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • damsel • evil doctor • font problems • glow • people in bottles • Philip José Farmer • swingin' medallion • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
May 30
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GSS ex-noob Comments: Tank menaces toddler with a big gun turret! Of course the toddler has a gun too, we’re BAEN. Nah, the fonts don’t matter.
[I took your suggestion, Ms Xnob, and replaced your original with a shiny new internet grab. — T. Wizard]
Published 2004

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bear-wielding • big gun • David Mattingly • evil children • font problems • John Ringo • Linda Evans • tank
May 28
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Tom Noir Comments: If cats could read the story you wrote about them, they still wouldn’t.
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Ann Meisel • Cats! • Fritz Leiber • Gardner Dozois • Jack Dann • magic • sky-eyes • Stephen King • Ursula K. Le Guin
May 23
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Tor Mented Comments: First off, stop swinging the sword. The artist didn’t bother to put in a target for you to hit. Second, bad fake Frazetta is worse than no Frazetta at all.
Published 1968

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • dude • Faux-nan • font problems • Jeff Jones • L. Sprague De Camp • long haired men • muscles • Pyramid Books
May 22
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Lillie Awesome Art Direction: Give me a little man, with a giant bird grafted to his head, and out of the giant bird’s head, I want a man’s head if human heads were shaped like potatoes, but upside down, and sitting inside that, I want a man, but with a bird’s head, and maybe make it look like the bird-headed man is shooting a bird out of his hand, which should also be holding a torch. Throw a bunch of rainbow people in a birth control pillbox in the background — it’s very high concept. We’re going to have to skimp on printing costs because we went over budget persuading Heinlein and Asimov to appear together, so don’t break your neck painting detail. Now, what say we make this a five martini lunch?
Published 1970

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • Anthony Boucher • Avram Davidson • bird • bird hairdo • bird people • Damon Knight • detachable head • George P. Elliott • Howard Fast • Isaac Asimov • James Blish • John Collier • Mark Van Doren • Paperback Library • people with animals for heads • Poul Anderson • R.V. Cassill • Ray Bradbury • Robert A. Heinlein • Robert P. Mills • Theodore Sturgeon • Unknown Artist Institute • Walter M. Miller Jr • WTF
May 21
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Raoul Comments: “Just wanted to let you know I’m in the Olympic torch relay! Now I’ll wall you back up.”
Published 1988

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Tagged with: chains • Edgar Allan Poe • font problems • fool • Halloween • mask • Paul Jennis • puffy shirt • skulls a-poppin' • Tor Books • torch • trilby hat
May 17
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Tom Noir Comments: More like the Hair Salons of Isher – and bitch, you look fabulous!!!
Published 1977

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • blow dryer gun • dead eyes • dude • Haircut 100 • handguns • Norman Adams • Pocket Books • space
May 16
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Tat Wood Comments: A gentle, lyrical book set on a world that’s like late 19th Century Cornwall. Obviously.
Published 1975

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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • hairy • Josh Kirby • Michael G. Coney • monster • strange creature • WTF
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