May 22
Click for larger imageLillie Awesome Art Direction: Give me a little man, with a giant bird grafted to his head, and out of the giant bird’s head, I want a man’s head if human heads were shaped like potatoes, but upside down, and sitting inside that, I want a man, but with a bird’s head, and maybe make it look like the bird-headed man is shooting a bird out of his hand, which should also be holding a torch. Throw a bunch of rainbow people in a birth control pillbox in the background — it’s very high concept. We’re going to have to skimp on printing costs because we went over budget persuading Heinlein and Asimov to appear together, so don’t break your neck painting detail. Now, what say we make this a five martini lunch?
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May 22nd, 2018 at 10:50 am
Falcon Hell.
May 22nd, 2018 at 2:18 pm
One of these birds has had an unfortunate accident. Gr-oss!
May 22nd, 2018 at 2:42 pm
I think the lazy bastards just quickly re-purposed a rejected Zelazny ‘Creatures of Light and Darkness’ cover so they could get to lunch.
May 22nd, 2018 at 4:03 pm
There better be a science fiction version of the “The Maltese Falcon” in there.
May 22nd, 2018 at 4:34 pm
Ah, good old Mamie Van Doren, branching out into sci-fi when the glamour roles dried up.
May 22nd, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Messrs Cassill, Elliott and Van Doren had something to show their mums at least – ‘look, ma, I’m in a list with people you’ve heard of!’
So three proud mothers put this cover over the mantelpiece.
May 22nd, 2018 at 5:39 pm
THX: Mark, not Mamie. In the interests of science I looked at Mamie van D’s Wikipedia entry. Now I need brain bleach, and I cannot unsee the photo at the top of the article.
Incidentally, the Heinlein story is “All You Zombies”, which has been referred to here quite a few times.
May 22nd, 2018 at 6:38 pm
I’m not sure what Egyptian mythology on acid has to do with this anthology at all.
May 22nd, 2018 at 10:22 pm
That bird center left is like, “I don’t see why I should have to dust these names everyday.”
May 22nd, 2018 at 10:34 pm
Erm. This imagery is very Egyptian, but I bet none of the stories are.
@fred: Maybe Zelazny said “Hell no, you can’t put that on my book.”
May 23rd, 2018 at 9:46 am
@Ll #7: Yeah, I know, but any excuse to mention Mamie, she’s great. She did make SF movies, too…
May 23rd, 2018 at 11:22 pm
@THX: Of all the Mamies, she’s the most entertaining.
May 26th, 2018 at 4:02 pm
This looks like just about any “head shop” window display in Amsterdam.
May 27th, 2018 at 5:57 am
Looking at those authors, I am wondering how much therapy it took Robert Mills to get over the experience of editing a book with that many egos in it.