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Click for larger imageChauncy comments: “Thrilling non-stop sci-fi action!” — Field and Stream
Published 1980
(Average: 5.45 out of 10)
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Chauncy comments: “Thrilling non-stop sci-fi action!” — Field and Stream
Published 1980
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August 24th, 2020 at 9:57 am
It takes more than one person from Porlock to throw Izaak Walton off his game.
August 24th, 2020 at 11:13 am
The only way this could be less exciting is if he was smoking a pipe.
August 24th, 2020 at 1:03 pm
“This cover had me hooked!” — the fish
August 24th, 2020 at 2:16 pm
They reused the cover from “Trout Fishing in America.”
August 24th, 2020 at 2:49 pm
Italian cover for people who would like a maid in peril over a fly fisherman.
https://picclick.it/SIMAK-Clifford-D-I-VISITATORI-Urania-n-363001154645.html#&gid=1&pid=1
August 24th, 2020 at 3:07 pm
That’s not pubic hair? So why does it look like pubic hair?
August 24th, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Wow. Imagine it’s 1980 and you forgot to send back the Science Fiction Book Club monthly selection card and THIS arrives in the mail.
August 24th, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Originally an illustration for Field & Stream, this cover was deemed too boring for that publication, and was thus dumped on the SciFi market.
August 24th, 2020 at 5:38 pm
@Francis B—Wait until he tries to finish that cast and sees what he’s hooked on the backswing. Then there’ll be some action on this cover!
August 24th, 2020 at 6:32 pm
They all mocked him for bringing his fly rod on a 4 year interstellar journey, but who’s laughing now? Clearly not our protagonist. Fly fishing is serious business.
August 24th, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Ugh, Here’s my 10 minute Photoshop version:
https://www.deviantart.com/daard23/art/Visitors-853049317
August 25th, 2020 at 12:43 am
But he does enjoy heart healthy food.
August 25th, 2020 at 1:30 am
@Raoul: I would have a) been used to SFBC covers b) known enough about Simak to know that most of his books are set in the rural Midwest and been unsurprised to see this c) resolved to send the damn card in next time because this is a short book I already read in Analog.
Also if you sent enough books Return to Sender unopened back to them, they eventually quit making you send the card in!
(The black oblong is The Visitor. It abducts the dude but no probing.)
@Tag: At least you got a new tag out of this one. Do any of our previous years’ worth depict “fishing”?
August 26th, 2020 at 5:04 pm
By the standards of the terrible covers Simak used to get, this is at least vaguely appropriate.
When I read his stuff, I usually have a voice in my head a bit like JR Hartley.
August 26th, 2020 at 7:21 pm
@Tat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKinNby3BsQ
September 16th, 2020 at 10:01 am
Strangely enough, the “Science Fiction Fishing” sub-genre never took off.