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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: Two-fer Tuesday? Sounds like another great Bibliomancer idea. So here are two covers he sent in years ago that I never got around to posting.
Published 1961, 1971
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May 17th, 2016 at 1:32 pm
OHHH so it’s 6 stories by Heinlein?
Wonder how many he wrote for the 3 x infinity book….
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=6418
I tried to do the sum but it broke my calculator…
May 17th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
It’s a two-fer so it’s 2 x 6 x H
I don’t think making a book title look like algebra will help sales.
May 17th, 2016 at 1:39 pm
‘Dad? How did you meet Mum for the first time?’
‘Well, I was clipping through a plane in my thong, and she was fleeing a huge griffin thing in nothing but her lingerie…it just sort of happened.’
May 17th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag’ involved six shocking penetrations…good night, people!
May 17th, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Top: 4 x Photobomb.
Bottom: The only penetration is apparently a finger down the throat.
May 17th, 2016 at 3:28 pm
These stories, though not these covers, bring back fond memories. “And He Built a Crooked House” was my adolescent introduction to four-dimensional
cubes. If these covers were 4-D, maybe they wouldn’t look so bad, or maybe they’d look worse.
May 17th, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Cover 1: So, we have a blue guy phasing through walls, a woman in a pink swimsuit fleeing from a giant bird-dinosaur thing, and all of this being watched by a man in a trenchcoat and fedora, with an unnerving grin on his face, wielding a revolver. These elements seem to have come from at least three, maybe four, different wild book covers. Well, given that its an anthology, I guess that is some kind of excuse . . .
@DSWBT: I don’t think blue guy is wearing a thong.
Cover 2: This edition gives us a short man in goggles, a big green coat and a top hat with a lamp mounted on it, carrying a radio, fleeing in a cloud of yellow smoke from an unseen entity holding a giant eye in appendages resembling human arms. This anthology was originally called “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag” – I wonder if he’s green coat guy?
May 17th, 2016 at 7:15 pm
Blue dude pierces page
Lass flees ball-and-socket truss,
Griffin and Trotsky
Hatted hexapod
Holds up weeping jaundiced eye
Radio shock jock
May 17th, 2016 at 7:57 pm
@Anna T.: The green-coated malfeasant’s The Bird, as in ‘The Bird Is Cruel’. This is obviously the Ralph Bakshi animated Hoag, ‘Fritz the Bird’. Made in 3D, hence his odd gestures.
May 17th, 2016 at 9:19 pm
6H is a pencil so hard it will likely tear any paper it writes upon.
May 17th, 2016 at 9:21 pm
Back cover ’71. That’s a lot of S words. I think one is missing.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-niEWnRdIYdE/VF_ks8-z_LI/AAAAAAAADII/3Ehy6sYwtVM/s1600/hx6top.jpg
May 17th, 2016 at 10:42 pm
@ fred: the six words on the back can be rearranged to spell:
HOTTEST WATTAGE? WHY, A RAD KALE NINJA!
May 18th, 2016 at 4:58 am
SIX STRANGE SHOCKING SOULS IN SEARCH OF PENETRATIONS INTO THE UNKNOWN SALVATION SIX!
May 18th, 2016 at 6:35 am
Six strange penetrations? I’ve seen enough anime to know where this is going.
May 19th, 2016 at 11:07 am
Hmm. In the case of the latter cover, Jonathan Hoag’s unpleasant profession is quite clear – he’s obviously a paparazzo. Having captured his desired sizzling pics of some starlet with either that rather poorly-concealed camera in his hat, or the one in his radio, he is now in the process of making his escape. He should have realised that that getup he’s wearing is hardly low-key for a day at the beach. Consequently, the starlet in question spotted him (no doubt with the invaluable help of her giant detachable eye) and is in hot pursuit. I wonder what he caught her doing?
May 19th, 2016 at 3:48 pm
What does it say about me that I love the bottom cover?
That said, this book does seem to be cursed to have ridiculous covers. Must be that craptastic title.
May 20th, 2016 at 2:29 am
@DSWBT #3 – Can we have more of that story? And, while you’re at it, could you explain the new version of triangular LodeRunner in the background?
Meanwhile I’ll have to try out this book “6 stories by X H Heinlein.”
May 26th, 2016 at 9:07 pm
I always pour a can of 6XH into the engine during winter! Makes it run so much smoother on cold days.