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!”