Oct 21
Chris D Comments: I quite like this cover. As far as following the plot, I suppose that the vacuum tube with the face in is meant to be one of the computers with a human brain. I also like that it was probably completed in just under a half hour.
Published 1967
October 21st, 2015 at 8:47 am
I remember this from an episode of Mr Benn.
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October 21st, 2015 at 8:54 am
I actually really like this too. But I remembered someone saying a long time ago why not post some covers I like… SO there… years after the fact… I have won! (Truth is I really like all the covers though!)
There’s just something really nice about the old Penguin covers. I have a few of them on my shelf just for their particular cover greatness!
October 21st, 2015 at 9:20 am
They’re wearing spacesuits because… they’re in a vacuum tube. Seems legit.
October 21st, 2015 at 9:53 am
Does Easter Island know about this?
October 21st, 2015 at 11:55 am
Five legs, all on one side of the body. HOW DOES THAT BEAST WALK ABOUT?
Mind…blown…
October 21st, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Proof positive of time travel. The Face of Boe went from future Dr Who to a Penguin paperback cover in the past or vice versa.
October 21st, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Don’t let it fall on me while I’m having my picture taken.
October 21st, 2015 at 1:58 pm
@fred: well, it is Back to the Future Day.
October 21st, 2015 at 2:22 pm
I’m sorry that’s not a cat person in that valve. Then I could use my cathode pun.
October 21st, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Tiny as they are, I don’t see how the spacemen can fit through that even tinier door.
October 21st, 2015 at 2:41 pm
And what’s with that little jaunty hand-on-hip thing?
“Ha, he’s wondering why he’s having trouble breathing. Looks like I’ve got the only oxygen pack!”
October 21st, 2015 at 3:01 pm
The important thing is to cause lots of eye strain to potential book buyers trying to make out the title.
October 21st, 2015 at 3:40 pm
@Bibliomancer: the big ball of wool under the valve (‘tube’ for yanks) indicates that they were expecting feline visitors.
October 21st, 2015 at 5:17 pm
@fred: I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but the Face of Boe is orange. That’s probably just an impersonator.
A bad one.
October 21st, 2015 at 6:27 pm
He may not be handsome, but his transistor is pretty cute!
I’ll get me coat.
October 21st, 2015 at 6:33 pm
@Anna T: That was Boe after five billion years. Maybe this is before his jar got a sunbed.
October 21st, 2015 at 9:40 pm
@all Boe face color fanatics: Cool blue is the new/old orange.
October 21st, 2015 at 11:54 pm
It’s white and gold.
October 22nd, 2015 at 12:27 am
@B. Chiclitz: He’s a little teapot short and stout.
October 22nd, 2015 at 8:12 am
Deleted scene from YELLOW SUBMARINE: Ringo and Paul visit the Giant Brando to learn how to defeat the Blue Meanies.
October 22nd, 2015 at 8:20 am
There’s an urban legend that opticians bought loads of these covers with “blurred” fonts to put in their waiting rooms. They sold many more glasses to customers that way.
October 23rd, 2015 at 11:40 am
Instant Video: Dio
H.B. Rank-Ferret
December 21st, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Destination: Bargain Bin
February 19th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
“How to get ahead in navigation”
April 16th, 2016 at 10:19 pm
‘Ladeez and Gentlemen, your attention pleeze. Thank you for choosing to fly on Herbert Airlinezz. We regret to inform you that boarding for flight 46, with service to Void, haz been delayed. We expect to begin boarding in another forty-five minitz. Thank you for your continued pashuntz, pleeze remain in the boarding area.’
Blue Head Dude: ‘…’
November 3rd, 2017 at 10:59 pm
But where does the four-sixths of a flightless waterfowl come in?
November 4th, 2017 at 12:57 am
@GSS ex-python: If anyone doesn’t know the answer, they get hurled off the Bridge of Death.
November 5th, 2017 at 2:57 am
@DSWBT: Am now picturing this illustration walking off the book and into a landscape featuring Victorian cut-outs.
Alternatively, the penguin could have electric tentacles and be in the Sahara.