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[Cover artist: unknown, possibly in hiding].
You might remember this from here.
Published 1972
(Average: 5.53 out of 10)
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Stevie T Comments: I have no words, except maybe “what the….”
[Cover artist: unknown, possibly in hiding].
You might remember this from here.
Published 1972
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April 14th, 2020 at 10:41 am
One helluva sneeze went into ruining this cover.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:56 pm
All his life, Salvador Dali pretended that he had never, ever painted an SF book cover. That dark secret died with him…
April 14th, 2020 at 1:47 pm
I hope their skill level with weaponized LP’s is better than that shown in ‘Shaun of the Dead”.
April 14th, 2020 at 4:36 pm
Soldier of fortune isn’t a good career choice for a loser.
April 14th, 2020 at 5:06 pm
On the other hand, this works as a symbolic representation of the “plotting” in some of his later novels.
April 14th, 2020 at 5:35 pm
The artist was told to depict a record fart.
April 14th, 2020 at 10:14 pm
@A.R. Yngve: “Welcome to planet Dali. Here’s your complementary giant mustache. The stilt-legged elephant stand is down the corridor, past the anthropomorphic gift shop”
April 15th, 2020 at 4:55 am
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse than the previous cover for this book, the truth of GSS is borne out: the covers can ALWAYS get worse.
“Piling up random objects atop a female torso” must be a course at UAI.
@Bruce: Presumably one can buy half-melted watches in the gift shop?
And Laumer was really never the same after his stroke.
April 15th, 2020 at 6:48 am
Laumer was so desperate to make the NYT Best Seller list, he asked the cover artist to work in a subtle product placement.
April 15th, 2020 at 6:59 am
@GSS ex-noob: I was thinking of adding that, but decided I had strung the gag on long enough. 🙂
I don’t blame Laumer for continuing to write and sympathetic editors continuing to buy – an SF writer has gotta eat – but his post-stroke efforts really haven’t been to the benefit of his reputation.
I don’t much enjoy surrealism as a form of SF cover art – I’ll take Frank Paul, lumpy-looking human characters and all, over Richard Powers and every one of his hairy, spiky blobs.
April 15th, 2020 at 11:01 am
Seventies SF covers: Where bad surrealists go to a fish.
April 16th, 2020 at 1:12 am
@Bruce: thanks for leaving the obvious punch line for me.
I never liked covers like this either. Very off-putting. People with no feet and anatomical issues are preferred to stuff like this.