May 11
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Mark E’s Art Direction: We need to get more women reading science fiction. How about we put a picture of a naked women with a snake on the cover. Oh – and make sure the angle leaves NOTHING to the imagination.
Published 1979
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May 11th, 2016 at 10:42 am
As a Whitesnake album cover, this might actually kinda work. As a sci-fi book cover… not so much.
May 11th, 2016 at 10:47 am
“No, I shan’t trust in you.”
May 11th, 2016 at 11:28 am
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC = TAINT CHEATS FLIGHT
May 11th, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Putting the ‘¿Que?’ in Quetzalcoatl
May 11th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
“HA! You weren’t expecting sky-snake, were you!!”
May 11th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Really close examination under high magnification reveals some troubling anatomical detail that, after careful scrutiny and, ah, ah, even more close examination leads me to conclude that—the dragon’s wings are aerodynamically unstable.
May 11th, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Wonder what last weeks Sigmund Freud would make of this cover.
May 11th, 2016 at 3:19 pm
Really close examination under high magnification reveals some troubling anatomical detail that, after careful scrutiny and, ah, ah, even more close examination leads me to conclude that …
… there is a tangle of two pair of wings. Thus, apparently, our starkers lady is an angel.
May 11th, 2016 at 4:08 pm
I remember my mum borrowing it. I think she may even have read it on the bus. The Seventies were a different time.
May 11th, 2016 at 5:07 pm
@Bibliomancer—but if you are correct, good sir, it would mean that the angel was not a “lady” at all, since angels have no gender. Perhaps it is a baseball player (playing for, who else, the Angels?), and so that is a a stylish, fur-trimmed athletic cup down there. Maybe it just requires even closer inspection under even higher magnification.
May 11th, 2016 at 5:10 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Angels have no gender? Hmm. Perhaps a defrocked Victoria’s Secret model then?
May 11th, 2016 at 5:32 pm
@Tat: Out of respect for a GSS colleague, I’ll refrain from making a ‘your mum during The Seventies’ joke. 😉
May 11th, 2016 at 5:35 pm
@B’Mancer—yes, that must be it. They have both wings and fur, I hear.
May 11th, 2016 at 5:54 pm
@DSWBT: Your second comment is a thing of beauty. I will remember it and laugh at inappropriate moments.
@Tag Wizard: I’m disappointed in you, sir. I fully expected a “WTF” tag. I did not find one.
May 11th, 2016 at 5:59 pm
Cover artists were not a friend to poor Alfred were they.
May 11th, 2016 at 7:09 pm
So are they dancing as in to “trip the light fantastic”? Either way someone is tripping, most likely the artist who, at some point, thought this was a good idea.
May 11th, 2016 at 11:18 pm
Do Daily Mail Paparazzi Dream of Flying Snakes?
May 12th, 2016 at 1:54 am
@Anna T. – WTF? Sorry. I was temporarily left speechless.
May 12th, 2016 at 4:15 am
@DSWBT #4 – Nice one. Only I don’t see Quetzalcoatl as much as I see….EVIL CADUCEUS. This poor women has been kidnapped from a hospital.
May 12th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
I know that cover… I had a collection of erotic Scifi short stories once with that… Apparently, it’s quite a popular image…
May 13th, 2016 at 10:18 pm
‘So, how is the experiment with putting wings on snakes of different masses going along? How are they flying?’
‘The light? Fantastic. The heavy? Need a bit of help aloft.’
May 14th, 2016 at 4:23 am
It seems this novel has been forgotten in the mists of history – a wikisearch only reveals the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name.
June 3rd, 2018 at 6:26 am
Searching didn’t reveal WTF this WTF cover was doing on this (or any other) book, but I did find out that it was a collection of Bester’s short stories. Pretty sure naked babes and flying snakes weren’t in any of them. At least not any I ever read. Most of his stuff was published before you were allowed to have naked women in SF anyway.