Aug 13
Click for larger imageDionysius Rogers Art Direction: Don’t we have some rejected cover art for that last printing of Stranger in a Strange Land? Where there’s a burning, lightning-struck monster in the middle of it for some reason?
Published 1977
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August 13th, 2018 at 10:24 am
“I told you to keep the receipt!”
August 13th, 2018 at 10:49 am
Adam and Eve? Looks more like Adam’s traded in Eve for a younger model. So maybe Adam and Melania. (She looks more like Ivanka but let’s not go there.) BTW, does anyone know what
Trump looks like with a beard?
August 13th, 2018 at 12:53 pm
This is clear evidence that women are half a step ahead of men on the evolutionary journey.
August 13th, 2018 at 3:56 pm
Bad nudist BBQ is better than no nudist BBQ at all.
August 13th, 2018 at 4:36 pm
Bearded guy: “Don’t worry, all that heat is just natural variability. Or a trick to decrease our competitiveness.”
August 13th, 2018 at 4:54 pm
That’s no Garden of Eden. A mushroom?! Other than that – perfect rendering of the Bible!
August 13th, 2018 at 6:04 pm
Adam and Eve cosplayers chat up a giant, evil neuron. In a lake. Outside a giant crystal castle. Ignoring the fact that a deity is attempting to smite the evil neuron, which unfortunately does nothing.
August 13th, 2018 at 6:37 pm
So is this what’s behind Emerald City? Poppies out front and psychedelic Biblical allegories in the back?
August 14th, 2018 at 12:51 am
Now we’re in the future, we can agree “frighteningly intelligent” is less frightening than “frighteningly unintelligent”.
August 14th, 2018 at 1:59 am
Melania of Oz is holding a ‘shroom. I guess that explains the entire cover.
Except nothing explains the Presence of the giant neuron/rip in the fabric of space and time/lightning attractor.
I don’t believe anything having to do with this cover is “frighteningly intelligent”.
@LL (5): hee!
@Yoss: Yep, it’s even trippier than we thought. sings “Existential Blues
August 14th, 2018 at 1:44 pm
“Help me fold this up and get it back in the van.”
August 14th, 2018 at 9:55 pm
Not a presence I want to sense.
August 15th, 2018 at 1:53 am
@B’mancer: I think “on the van”.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if these two also had groovy psychedelic art on the inside walls of their van, lit by a lava lamp and over the appropriately-named shag carpeting.
August 16th, 2018 at 4:43 am
The giant space neuron was of two minds on whether or not to destroy the world, but the true division was in Its heart.
August 20th, 2018 at 6:12 pm
@BM #14…. Good show sir!
August 20th, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Things I learned from this cover: Women get crystals, men get wood.
September 28th, 2020 at 9:22 am
“We secretly switched the artist’s regular coffee with Folgers LSD Crystals. Let’s watch!”
June 15th, 2022 at 7:39 pm
Some covers, like this one, I think, “Whaaaaa?” and then I scroll down to learn from the masters of scifi cover interpretation.
It’s kinda hard to get into the sense of foreboding when “The Presence” is written in translucent hot pink letters… and if that’s what everyone sees when they’re tripping on shrooms at the Banff hot springs, um, no thanks.