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Click for full imagePerry Comments: John & Marsha stared in horror as hate-criminals threw rocks at the Toilet Door People’s picnic.
Published 2000
(Average: 6.55 out of 10)
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Perry Comments: John & Marsha stared in horror as hate-criminals threw rocks at the Toilet Door People’s picnic.
Published 2000
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September 18th, 2015 at 10:54 am
Considering the public toilet theme, I’d be worried about exactly what those missiles were too.
September 18th, 2015 at 11:12 am
@THX 1138: “One of those books that haunts you for the rest of your life”
September 18th, 2015 at 11:55 am
@THX, anon: as God is my witness, I actually read the quote as attributed to the Sunday Turds. 🙁
September 18th, 2015 at 2:09 pm
What will Dr Who do first? Stop the meteor bombardment or deal with the invasion of the Restroom People?
September 18th, 2015 at 4:32 pm
every time it rains it rains
poop balls from heaven
oh, don’t you know each cloud contains
poop balls from heaven
those methane bombs are falling
all over town
make sure that your umbrella
ain’t upside down!
lookin’ for a package of
new toilet tissue
whoa, hope those nasty things above
will somehow miss you
and when you hear it thunder
that’s cosmic flatulence, see?
just those poop balls from heaven for—you—and—me . . . .
September 18th, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Like The Day of the Triffids covers? Here’s a bunch more:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?2139
Sadly, today’s post is not one of them.
September 18th, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Surely,that isn’t a real cover ? Its awful.
September 18th, 2015 at 5:41 pm
There IS a meteor shower in the book, but isn’t it mostly about killer plants? Where are those? The Toilet Horde probably killed them. Fear the Toilet Horde.
September 18th, 2015 at 5:50 pm
Life Hacks: fish a dozen copies of this book out of the Remaindered bin, and tear the covers off. Fashion your own camouflage trousers from them!
Or, just tear the covers off and put the books back.
September 18th, 2015 at 6:13 pm
This is apparently from 2010 but even Penguin’s cover-art site refuses to name the guilty party.
September 18th, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Also, wassup with the in the fog female Restroom Person on the right? Does being in the fog make her the Restroom Person version of a Star Trek Red Shirt, about to be devoured like the poor blind woman in the movie?
September 18th, 2015 at 9:06 pm
@fred: the penguin got ‘er, and ‘ees goin’ after that fellah next!
September 19th, 2015 at 12:45 am
@misterbob (7): oh this is absolutely a real book, and I’ve got it right in front of me. The back cover identifies the artist as Spencer Wilson (aka the publisher’s nephew?), who did covers for other Wyndham books in a similar style.
@Tat Wood (10): the Copyright page is strangely bereft of dates other than 1951 & 1954. From my recollection of purchasing this (new, not second-hand), your estimated 2010 publication date sounds about right.
Backstory: My wife was keen on buying a copy of Wyndham’s classic, and we deliberately went looking for it in a local retailer. Upon seeing this terrible cover, however, I actively tried talking her out of it, saying I was sure I could find a copy with a better cover somewhere. She went ahead anyway (I think she was in need of some airplane reading at the time), and in retrospect I’m kinda glad she did 🙂
September 19th, 2015 at 1:43 am
@misterbob (7): … and don’t call me Shirley.
September 19th, 2015 at 3:47 am
@Perry – Thanks. Artist added to tags. Publishing date is late 90’s/2000.
Here’s the whole gallery of Wyndham cover art. Feast your eyes:
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-wyndham-post-that-made-my-brain.html
September 19th, 2015 at 10:35 am
Butt-Head: Huh, huh, huh. Turds. Huh, huh.
September 20th, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Whoever made the cover was paid with ice cream and candy bars.
September 21st, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Triffids sounds like a medical condition.
October 24th, 2015 at 1:37 am
@AnnaT (8): ‘Fear the Toilet Horde’ sounds suspiciously like a Steven Moffat Repeated Meme™. Please don’t give him any ideas.
October 24th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
@Perry Armstrong: No, please SOMEONE give Oor Moffie a new idea. He’s been playing with the old one so long he’s broken it.
October 26th, 2015 at 3:16 am
@Tat: Be careful what you wish for (cue creepy children chanting):
“They will get you on the loo
They will get you when you poo
They will get you on the khazi
They’re the nightmare toilet Stasi
… Fear the Toilet Horde”