Jul 01
Click for larger imageJonathan Art Direction: What’s this? I told you the giant ant needs to be wearing a top hat. We’ll have to fix it with typography.
Tag Wizard Comments: Jonathan also helpfully forwards the note on the copyright page: ‘The Large Ant’ originally published as ‘The Big Ant’
Published 1961
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July 1st, 2019 at 10:06 am
Ant mocapped by Tom Cruise.
July 1st, 2019 at 10:46 am
*Ant produces magnifying glass* “Now the tables are turned!”
July 1st, 2019 at 2:21 pm
Step aside hacks. Let a “master writer” show you how to write science fiction!
July 1st, 2019 at 3:54 pm
The Big AntNo
The Large AntNo
The Gi-Ant
Perfection
“Susie, get Asylum on the phone immediately.”
July 1st, 2019 at 4:13 pm
What kind of picnic could these humans be spoiling?
(And, for 1961, a giant insect is about as Daringly Original and Wildly Imaginative as flying saucers. Or Martians opening a shop on 5th Avenue.)
July 1st, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Pathetic human. Your arms too short, and too few in number, to box with Ant.
July 1st, 2019 at 4:55 pm
Wait a minute—is this Science Fiction or F-antasy?
July 1st, 2019 at 5:16 pm
I assume the ant either wants to invite the humans to tea, or have them with the tea.
July 1st, 2019 at 5:48 pm
“Mr Fast, Asylum just got back to me. They’ve already finished The Gi-ant and they want the script for Gi-ant 2: Giant Vs Biguana* on their desk by Friday.
*Apparently biguanas are a thing, in Florida. I blame Florida Man.
July 1st, 2019 at 6:14 pm
That moment when you’re taking trash about a giant ant, and you realize he’s standing right behind you.
July 1st, 2019 at 6:45 pm
“I wrote ‘Spartacus.'”
“No, I wrote ‘Spartacus!'”
“I wrote ‘Spartacus!'”
July 2nd, 2019 at 1:10 am
Looks like the artist just took the title of one of the short stories – “The Large Ant” – and _ran_ with it.
(Ironically – and those who have read the story will understand why – things probably would have worked out better for humanity if the ant had actually been that big).
July 2nd, 2019 at 4:43 am
@Tor M—GSS! 😉
July 2nd, 2019 at 5:24 am
Evidently, judging from the numbers in the corner, this is one-half of Mr. Fast’s talent on display. And he never heard of the square-cube law. But neither did any of the hacks who’d done all the giant insect movies that filled cinemas in the years before this book.
The artist certainly passed “Big Bug” class at UAI — that’s a very detailed, realistic (except for size) ant. Can’t say the same for the people.
@THX, Francis, BC, Tor: GSS!
February 28th, 2020 at 11:54 am
Howard Fast’s
ANTACUS
February 29th, 2020 at 11:54 pm
@A.R. Yngve:
No, I am Antacus!
Come off it, you’re not even an arthropod.
September 16th, 2020 at 11:31 pm
This is a rare depiction of publishers consulting with the blurb ant . Three go in, only 2 come back.