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Click for full imageBilly Awesome Comments: Mescaline binge meets community college art exhibit.
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Billy Awesome Comments: Mescaline binge meets community college art exhibit.
Published 1970
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September 28th, 2016 at 11:04 am
Trust me, within the next two years “Commedia Dell’Arte” will be a new “identity” on American campuses — with “Harlequin Awareness Seminars”, “Celebrate Your Inner Harlequin” courses, “Pulchinella Safe Spaces” and whatnot…
September 28th, 2016 at 11:19 am
This is what happens when the robot comes too naked.
September 28th, 2016 at 11:50 am
Episode VIII: Disco Vader.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Cosmic engineers dress just as badly ad Earthly engineers.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Simak rode a horse to High School for four years, five miles each way. This fact may have possibly been Cosmically Engineered by Mr. Simak.
http://www.philsp.com/articles/images/Simak_Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_193906-RS_085_cropped.jpg
September 28th, 2016 at 1:54 pm
For those of you who missed Monday’s presidential debate, it will be replayed Wednesday afternoon, on a book cover.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:07 pm
It took a cosmic engineer to make them walk like men.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Forget about the “face in tree” meme, there’s a “face in groin” on this cover. Nnyyaahhh . . . .
September 28th, 2016 at 3:25 pm
About time we added a “people in bottles” tag.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Not so much engineering as architecture: Sr Richard Rogers’ ‘inside-out’ approach to skyscrapers applied to people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building
Poor Clifford! So many terrible covers (especially French).
September 28th, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Cthulhu hits the dance floor.
September 28th, 2016 at 6:07 pm
@Anna: you see a dance floor, I see intricately-planted row crops being vandalised by a giant.
September 28th, 2016 at 9:27 pm
@Bibliomancer – Sure, why not. Send me some links for tagging.
September 29th, 2016 at 1:02 am
@TW: Does A Tale of Two Clocks count?
September 29th, 2016 at 1:06 am
Also: Lethe
September 29th, 2016 at 1:20 am
A few minutes’ looking reveals a few more candidates
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=8814
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=6092
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=8746
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4153
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=141
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11639
and maybe
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3798 although the people are outside the bottle and it’s implied that the thing in it is a city.
September 29th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
She looks more like she’s just been beamed down from a flying saucer.
October 3rd, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Ooh, a novel with enough thrills for five sequels! (If I believe the tag line…) Do said sequels exist, or is there just a high enough thrill-quotient that one could write five sequels if one wanted to?
October 3rd, 2016 at 5:52 pm
@HappyBookworm: Clifford Simak had too much self-respect and imagination to bother with franchising himself, unless it was a short story that had the legs to become a book. Other writers have taken ideas from his works and built whole careers on them so I don’t doubt that five unofficial ‘sequels’ exist, just as his throwaway notion of a Time War (‘Time And Again’, based on stories he wrote c.1950) has been milked by everyone and his dog.
Third generation photocopies of ‘Cosmic Engineers’ have shown up on this very site, often by Jack L Chalker.
October 22nd, 2016 at 12:59 am
‘Sorry, no, not sequels. Seconds.’
–Amazing Stories
March 6th, 2022 at 5:20 am
Hm.
Do Cosmic Engineers stare at their feet when they talk to you, like Earth engineers do?
Q: How can you tell an extroverted engineer when you meet one?
A. He stares at *your* feet when he talks to you….
March 6th, 2022 at 6:11 am
@Hammy: can they see their feet in that helmet?
March 6th, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Is that a tree between your legs or are you just glad to see me?
March 6th, 2022 at 10:13 pm
I believe the submitter had it right all those years ago: mescaline is the only explanation for this cover.
@Hammy: Perhaps he’s thinking “Let’s see the girls ignore me in THIS outfit!” And, of course, they will.
That’s probably not an actual woman behind him, it’s a mint-in-box life-size action figure. Or else a smaller one floating beside him. Despite the artist’s heartfelt attempt at a vanishing point, the perspective is unclear.
March 7th, 2022 at 12:25 am
As @Bibliomancer said, women under glass – indeed, sometimes tiny women – is a fine old pulp SF trope [1], although I think this is the first time I’ve seen one in a bell jar.
(Warning: some NSFW-ness.)
https://www.pinterest.com/tbartistika/sci-fi-captive-women-under-glass/
May 22nd, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Speaking of Simak’s Time War, someone seems to have tripped from 1968 to 1977 and back again to bring us Sgt Darth Dr Pepper’s Lonely Bell Jar Band.
Also, this website may have other works by the artist:
https://monoskop.org/images/8/83/MacGregor_John_M_The_Discovery_of_the_Art_of_the_Insane.pdf
May 22nd, 2023 at 10:09 pm
@JJYoyo: GSS!