Oct 22
Ryan Comments: I don’t think that the blurb writer understands how time works. And the illustrator has some interesting ideas about what occurs underwater.
Tag Wizard: And that brings Ryan Week to an end here at GSS. Thanks for the mother lode of covers.
Published 1975
October 22nd, 2020 at 9:01 am
“I’d like to examine him, but I can’t see shit in this hood.”
October 22nd, 2020 at 10:00 am
#He’s not totally naked Jim!
October 22nd, 2020 at 2:12 pm
“Since we brought these tiny fishing rods, and he’s dead, would it be unethical to use him as bait?
October 22nd, 2020 at 2:44 pm
When you’re too macho to dress appropriately for your time-travel adventure.
October 22nd, 2020 at 4:03 pm
“Hurry up, Earl. it feels as though the canoe of Damocles were hovering over us.”
October 22nd, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Naked Primitives! In Y-Fronts!
October 23rd, 2020 at 3:15 am
“Naked primitives were dropping to Earth…”
It’s raining men, hallelujah?
October 23rd, 2020 at 6:58 am
If they’re so primitive, why do they have tailored undies on? In either past or future, wouldn’t loincloths be more expected? Are they coming from the far future of maybe 1978?
What in the name of Aurignacian Man did Darrell Sweet think made sense about the top and bottom halves of the cover vis a vis each other?
At first I thought the object lying next to the bottom primitive was a rubber chicken.
Couldn’t the blurb have just said “Naked (mostly) primitives were dropping to earth from a savage future”? It’s not like SF readers weren’t already familiar with both time travel and post-apocalyptic barbarians at this point.
I attended many cons with Bob Tucker (“smooooth!”), and he didn’t deserve this cover or blurb.
@Bruce: Amen.
October 23rd, 2020 at 11:49 am
He won’t need an iron if he’s naked anyway.
October 27th, 2020 at 2:54 pm
DID YOU KNOW that many blurb writers suffers from crippling dyslexia?
Give, and give generously, to the Editorial Dyslexia Fund, so that blurbs like these can be avoided.