Note the “mystical pyramid crystal” in Simak’s name.
Yeah, everyone knows Clifford D. Simak was into pyramids and crystals… all SF writers are crazy about that New Age stuff! Trust the editor of Mandarin Books!
@ARY: I was “meh” on comment #4 till I noticed the hair, and upgraded to LOL. As to #5, I so agree on the mystic crystal pyramid prism. Not only does it look stupid, Simak was as far from that sort of person as could be.
@Anna T: Chris Moore couldn’t decide whether to paint an eye or a mouth, so he combined them.
@B’mancer: GSS! I don’t recall any eyeball-cueball humanoid aliens in Simak’s writings, so why are they on the covers?
“Day five on Earth: I begin to suspect the locals don’t like the look of my sideburns.”
@Anna T.: you need to read more Lovecraft-inspired stuff then.
@GSS ex-noob: I suspect it’s supposed to be the alien from “A Death in the House” (note the glowy magic Amulet of Happyness) which as a plant-being probably doesn’t need a mouth.
(And the aliens – well, one set of them – in that story do look like bowling balls: they just combine with mannequins or something to mimic the human form).
September 17th, 2019 at 9:24 am
Gort looks different without the makeup.
September 17th, 2019 at 12:51 pm
Space Oddity isn’t the worst song to have stuck in your head all day.
September 17th, 2019 at 12:52 pm
“Greetings, Earthling. I am Testes, from the star system of Nad-Hed.”
September 17th, 2019 at 1:58 pm
Note the “mystical pyramid crystal” in Simak’s name.
Yeah, everyone knows Clifford D. Simak was into pyramids and crystals… all SF writers are crazy about that New Age stuff! Trust the editor of Mandarin Books!
September 17th, 2019 at 2:28 pm
Which came first, Asimov’s sideburns or this guy’s sideburns?
September 17th, 2019 at 4:42 pm
I never wondered if an eye could look like both an eye and a mouth before today.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Hairy eye-balls? Do. Not. Want.
September 17th, 2019 at 7:22 pm
It’s this guy, without his disguise.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:35 pm
This being can literally watch what it eats.
@ARY: I was “meh” on comment #4 till I noticed the hair, and upgraded to LOL. As to #5, I so agree on the mystic crystal pyramid prism. Not only does it look stupid, Simak was as far from that sort of person as could be.
@Anna T: Chris Moore couldn’t decide whether to paint an eye or a mouth, so he combined them.
@B’mancer: GSS! I don’t recall any eyeball-cueball humanoid aliens in Simak’s writings, so why are they on the covers?
Also, look what’s on sale today in self-publishing land:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VFHH2N1
September 17th, 2019 at 11:23 pm
“Day five on Earth: I begin to suspect the locals don’t like the look of my sideburns.”
@Anna T.: you need to read more Lovecraft-inspired stuff then.
@GSS ex-noob: I suspect it’s supposed to be the alien from “A Death in the House” (note the glowy magic Amulet of Happyness) which as a plant-being probably doesn’t need a mouth.
(And the aliens – well, one set of them – in that story do look like bowling balls: they just combine with mannequins or something to mimic the human form).
September 18th, 2019 at 12:52 am
@GSSxN – Awesome. I’m making that guy my avatar. And I’m lobbying Tag Wizard to put that cover in the next Honourable Mentions!
September 18th, 2019 at 1:45 am
@Bibliomancer—That college sounds like the one I attended.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:13 am
That’ not his mouth or his eye. This alien guy is talking out his ass.
September 18th, 2019 at 7:53 am
It has something of a “70s Lothario” look about it, with the big chest amulet and sideburns: I could almost imagine it’s holding a joint in that hand.
September 18th, 2019 at 1:01 pm
@Bruce: Depending on whether that’s an eye or a mouth, would a joint be any use to it? – or him? (sideburns, medallion – surely it has to be a him)
September 18th, 2019 at 4:42 pm
@Bruce A Munro: Well maybe I will then.
September 20th, 2019 at 6:06 am
@B’mancer of the new avatar: happy to be of service.
It took 2 guys to write that. Are you going to work on becoming a wolfman warlock too?
September 25th, 2019 at 12:04 am
Looking at this cover again – and sideways – I think I see a third alternative to “eye or mouth”.
Maybe in spite of the shirtless, medallion wearing look this isn’t a male alien, and they might not be sideburns.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:08 am
Looking at this cover again – and sideways – I think I see a third alternative to “eye or mouth”.
Maybe in spite of the shirtless, medallion-wearing 70’s look this isn’t a male alien.
October 1st, 2019 at 3:20 pm
“I know you are all looking at my pimples.”
October 11th, 2021 at 3:12 am
“There’s something very off about this planet.”