What are tomorrow’s alternatives? Next Thursday? A fortnight from Monday? The 37th of June? (I’m assuming this is a guidebook for the confused time-traveller.) No doubt the stories are worthwhile but based on the title the book got the cover it deserved.
“We asked you for a cover fit for a collection of stories from some of the greatest minds in SF, and you give us a woman sitting in a giant frog. How do you intend to fix this disaster?”
‘… I could make the woman’s nipples visible?’
“GENIUS! I’ll see you get a (modest) bonus!”
Few people know today, that the Great Videogame Crash of 1983 wasn’t caused by the “E.T.” cartridge fiasco, but in fact by the almost forgotten “Frogger Exxxtreme” – the game Konami didn’t want you to see…
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June 29th, 2020 at 10:24 am
Froggy went a-courtin’…
June 29th, 2020 at 10:50 am
“As our new Empress, your regalia will be the giant frog hat.”
“And…?”
“Just the frog hat.”
June 29th, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Android dreaming of alternative space sheep.
June 29th, 2020 at 4:06 pm
Only the intro’s by Frank Herbert (who never met an amphibian he didn’t like) so which story’s got the Bufo-slash?
June 29th, 2020 at 4:50 pm
I’m not liking some of the alternatives, already…
June 29th, 2020 at 5:31 pm
She started out innocently kissing the frog to see if he turned into a prince.
Then the situation got out of hand.
June 29th, 2020 at 10:16 pm
I think both creatures on this cover, whatever they are, need some attitude readjustment lessons.
June 29th, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Grant Wood’s “American Frogthic.”
June 30th, 2020 at 12:53 am
Jellie Bellie™ really shouldn’t ask the public what new flavors they want.
June 30th, 2020 at 1:08 am
What are tomorrow’s alternatives? Next Thursday? A fortnight from Monday? The 37th of June? (I’m assuming this is a guidebook for the confused time-traveller.) No doubt the stories are worthwhile but based on the title the book got the cover it deserved.
June 30th, 2020 at 2:21 am
I wonder if it’s a horny toad.
June 30th, 2020 at 2:38 am
Today is the tomorrow this book was looking towards.
Yet even with a worldwide pandemic, ecological problems, failure of leadership, looming recession…
I’m glad this isn’t the alternative!
I was going to start @-ing people for a hearty GSS, but as it turns out, everyone deserves it. Exceptionally witty, especially for a Monday.
So GSS to all!
June 30th, 2020 at 12:20 pm
“We asked you for a cover fit for a collection of stories from some of the greatest minds in SF, and you give us a woman sitting in a giant frog. How do you intend to fix this disaster?”
‘… I could make the woman’s nipples visible?’
“GENIUS! I’ll see you get a (modest) bonus!”
July 5th, 2020 at 5:41 pm
This is not what is meant by the word “toadstool.”
September 22nd, 2021 at 1:18 pm
Few people know today, that the Great Videogame Crash of 1983 wasn’t caused by the “E.T.” cartridge fiasco, but in fact by the almost forgotten “Frogger Exxxtreme” – the game Konami didn’t want you to see…