Jul 08
Tom Noir Comments: They’ve gone to extraordinary lengths here to make sure nothing on this cover makes any sense. I wonder if it as drawn with the same yellow highlighter that the author used to get high while he was writing the book?
Published 1976
July 8th, 2015 at 9:33 am
It totally belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!
July 8th, 2015 at 9:33 am
“I said ‘Dominicans‘!”
July 8th, 2015 at 11:08 am
Bernie Clifton’s scrubbing up well.
July 8th, 2015 at 11:17 am
@Tom Noir. Next time just take the damn picture and stop being artsy with those Instagram filters!
July 8th, 2015 at 11:49 am
http://www.sfreviews.net/minikins.html
“My breasts have been likened to the Apples of Love. Observe the red of the nipples.” And I thought there might have been more than a little artistic license occurring here. Silly me.
July 8th, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Ostrich: ‘Just a little further, just a little bit further. Then we’ve arrived. Then I can get her off. OFF OF MY BACK SIDE. Ah, no, stay focused. Keep calm. Just a little further.’
July 8th, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Wolverhampton’s changed a bit since I was last there.
July 8th, 2015 at 4:53 pm
There’s a tragic lack of the JUST SO MUCH YELLOW tag here, given that this cover seems to be basically the epitome of yellowness…
July 8th, 2015 at 4:54 pm
If she lives long enough, her horns will grow so long that they dig into her cerebral cortex. Good show, sir!
July 8th, 2015 at 7:09 pm
God, I could lose myself for hours in those deep, lustrous eyes.
I’m talking, of course, about the ostrich. Where was I? Oh yes. I propose a new tag: nonsense titles. Would also apply to “Tarra Khash – Hrossak!” among others.
July 8th, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Sequel to “The Minikins of Marmelade”
July 9th, 2015 at 4:29 am
All I can think of is how painful it is on the crotch to sit in that metal saddle…
July 9th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
@Scott B: I think a more generic tag of “chromatic unbalance” would be of greater use.
July 9th, 2015 at 5:24 pm
More candidates for the ‘nonsense title’ tag:
Swell Foop, Trullon – Alastor 2262, Rork!, and Manalacor of Veltakin, which for all I know could be a sequel to this book.
August 2nd, 2015 at 9:18 pm
If it were transliterated as ‘The Minikins of Llam’, it would make an excellent title for a novel set in a Welsh mining town. Perhaps a class-and-clan feud, in the style of The Mill on the Floss or Lorna Doone…both of which would qualify for Tom’s title tag.
August 24th, 2015 at 11:18 pm
Has anyone else taken notice of the fact that this woman’s breasts are floundering across her chest like she’s just stuffed them down her dress? As an owner of breasts, I can assure you they aren’t generally positioned like that.
As an aside, if you must ride into battle on an ostrich, a tight white nightgown is not what I would choose to wear . . .
November 26th, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Man Burneth Swan-Tots
Fist a minimonkey, H.