@Jonathan Oliver: I think only you see the head as Capaldi’s. It certainly doesn’t look like him to me.
So, man’s head in an open-fronted box with a naked Asian woman rising behind him, hovering in a field in front of a singularity and some moons.
If the above description has nothing to do with the book’s plot, I will in no way be surprised, as the cover artist seems to have been tripping on acid.
A: First, you must build ways between the stars — several light years long. Then you simply add toll booths at each end, and — voila! — you have conquered the starways.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:22 am
Somewhere Bill O’Reilly is pissed off and contemplating a lawsuit.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:47 am
The Demu had conquered armpit hair, but could they keep a head boxed?
April 25th, 2017 at 11:51 am
The ‘boob tube’ indeed!
April 25th, 2017 at 11:52 am
If you had told me ‘Here’s a still from the video where Björk shoot spheres out of her armpits’ I would have believed you in a heartbeat.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:55 am
Don’t you love that cover? Used bookstores don’t. By which I mean, they wouldn’t buy it back. Not the store in Alpine I bought it from, not anybody. I begged the owner of Cosmic Squire Books and Records in Wichita to take it off my hands and he wouldn’t have it, even for free.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:57 am
Make someone happy with a phone call. And keep an Earthling caged. Possibly in a red telephone box.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:58 am
Who wouldn’t love a book about a woman who can shoot Peter Capaldi’s head from her crotch?
April 25th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
Cage a Man? Or Cage, The Man.
April 25th, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Looks more fun than Whack-a-Mole
April 25th, 2017 at 2:21 pm
Demu? Is his name Drod Dhull?
April 25th, 2017 at 2:58 pm
The Demu had conquered the stairways, but could they keep an elevator caged?
—A novel by F.M. Busboy
April 25th, 2017 at 3:49 pm
Behind every great man’s disembodied head is a great woman from the waist up with perfectly shaved arm hair.
April 25th, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Actually, the man is the republican party, protecting women’s bodies from themselves.
April 25th, 2017 at 4:43 pm
Dammit DSWBT, I followed your link and now I know the Demu couldn’t keep an Earthling caged. Talk about spoilers.
April 25th, 2017 at 5:20 pm
@Francis: DSWBT had linked the review, but could he keep the ending spoilered? 😉
April 25th, 2017 at 5:51 pm
@Jonathan Oliver: I think only you see the head as Capaldi’s. It certainly doesn’t look like him to me.
So, man’s head in an open-fronted box with a naked Asian woman rising behind him, hovering in a field in front of a singularity and some moons.
If the above description has nothing to do with the book’s plot, I will in no way be surprised, as the cover artist seems to have been tripping on acid.
April 25th, 2017 at 6:21 pm
She aged well, he not so much…
April 25th, 2017 at 6:28 pm
@DSWBT – Before you even ask, I’m not creating a “dude-in-a-box-hiding-a-dames-knockers” tag.
Unless you can find a third example …
April 25th, 2017 at 6:34 pm
Head-in-square: I WILL KILL YOU!
April 25th, 2017 at 6:42 pm
@TW: I’m earnestly hoping you don’t have to.
April 25th, 2017 at 7:31 pm
Art direction: ‘What’s a demu?’
‘Don’t know. Must be like an emu.’
‘So, shall I paint eggs around a bird?’
‘Spot on.’
April 25th, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Q: How exactly do you “conquer the starways”?
A: First, you must build ways between the stars — several light years long. Then you simply add toll booths at each end, and — voila! — you have conquered the starways.
April 26th, 2017 at 1:30 am
Wow.
I’ve only ever seen this with the big standing lobster alien on the cover, which is much better.
This makes no sense unless the artist thought the title was “Cage A Man’s Head, But Let a Topless Asian Woman Escape”.
But, eh, 1974, LSD, mistakes were made.
@B’mancer (8): I did an image search to find the cover I’d seen, and sure enough, a book with a close-up of that Cage showed up.