Nov 09
Click for larger imageBibliomancer Comments: Surrender Earth to its enemy? What a great plan! Why didn’t I think of that?!‽
Published 1966
(Average: 7.25 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Surrender Earth to its enemy? What a great plan! Why didn’t I think of that?!‽
Published 1966
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November 9th, 2017 at 10:45 am
There’s no cause for alarm, they’re actually from Dyno-rod.
November 9th, 2017 at 10:56 am
North Korean rocket general and his Muppet® bodyguards.
November 9th, 2017 at 11:12 am
Giant mutant kiwi batmen, Batman!
1966 was a strange year, folks.
November 9th, 2017 at 12:12 pm
I shall probably regret asking, but…does this need the Sir Mix-a-Lot tag?
November 9th, 2017 at 1:19 pm
“Ok Earthman, surrender that fabulous dinner jacket! It will go perfectly with my boots.”
(Why is the guy in the back wearing boots?)
November 9th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Yet another spaceman wearing jodhpurs. This is officially a thing now.
Trump ignites ‘The Official Presidential Uniform’ kerfuffle.
The alien in the foreground looks serious. John Wick/Liam Neeson ‘Taken’ serious.
Unsafe steep w/o handrails ladder on a spaceship.
Spaceship gonna topple over to the left.
November 9th, 2017 at 2:02 pm
You’d think that a place named Solaria (Solaris?) would be sufficiently warm that its lifeforms wouldn’t evolve such a thick insulating layer of fur, feathers, or whatever, but here we are.
November 9th, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Is that an eldritch Palmer, perchance?
November 9th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Is a spherical spaceship really the most practical design for spherical people?
November 9th, 2017 at 3:10 pm
So, since the aliens are apparently a mutant kiwifruit-bat hybrid, were they accidentally created by New Zealanders?
November 9th, 2017 at 3:33 pm
Could Palmer trust the Solarians’ plan of covering Earth in Wiffle balls?
November 9th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
It’s called ‘Solaria’ because the sun’s only thirty feet away. Check the shadows if you don’t believe me.
November 9th, 2017 at 4:06 pm
The Earthman looks like he got his jacket from Frederick’s of Hollywood, his Jodhpurs from the Raj Surplus Store, and his hat from the North Korean army, home of the biggest military hats in the galaxy!
November 9th, 2017 at 4:36 pm
@Anna T.
Have you seen Peter Jackson’s early work?
November 9th, 2017 at 5:16 pm
I would love to see what thier chairs and beds look like.
November 9th, 2017 at 6:22 pm
They’re actually something the ship’s cat coughed up and were put to good use.
November 9th, 2017 at 6:27 pm
I’d like to pinpoint the exact date when this type of “cover spaceship” design fell out of fashion. (It has to be later than ’66, which in itself is remarkable.)
November 9th, 2017 at 9:21 pm
Not having read the book the jump from today’s cover to this version is perplexing.
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/5/59/THSLRNSDWB1973.jpg
November 10th, 2017 at 12:32 am
I just read the Wikipedia entry for the book, and now the blurb doesn’t seem as nonsensical. Also, the human character’s costume is supposed to be ridiculous. “This is a comic-opera military uniform festooned with gold braid, ribbons and medals. Palmer feels ridiculous, especially compared to the Solarians, who have dressed in costumes of uniform black with only a sunburst emblem on the left breast.”
@fred: the cover above seems to represent the contents much more closely.
November 10th, 2017 at 1:39 am
Looks like the Solarians also designed their own robots.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Cosmic_Computer.jpg
November 10th, 2017 at 2:31 am
Those Solarians will never fit their fat round asses into that tiny rocket ship.
November 10th, 2017 at 9:10 am
@fred: “jodhpurs” needs to be a tag. We do see them entirely too often on the older works. Although certainly not on the cover you found.
So, are the two humans(?) right next to the rocket (hope it doesn’t fire the main engine) the Solarians, being in simple black with an emblem?
Then who, pray tell, are the armed kiwi/bat things? The enemy mentioned in the blurb, I guess.
No explanation for the giant wiffle balls of doom.
November 12th, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Planet of the ambulatory kooshballs!
November 13th, 2017 at 1:08 am
Killer Kooshballs In SPAAAAAAAAACE!
(Also, that might be Mulder and Scully standing by the rocket.)
November 14th, 2017 at 4:10 pm
I trust the Solarians implicitly!
November 16th, 2017 at 2:40 am
@fred: your alternative cover brings new meaning to the term “control-top hose”.