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Oct 22

Ice and Iron

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On the shores of Gitche Gumee ...Click for larger image

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

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 5.80 out of 10)
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10 Responses to “Ice and Iron”

  1. THX 1139 Says:
    October 22nd, 2020 at 9:01 am

    “I’d like to examine him, but I can’t see shit in this hood.”

  2. fred Says:
    October 22nd, 2020 at 10:00 am

    #He’s not totally naked Jim!

  3. JuanPaul Says:
    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?

  4. Bruce A Munro Says:
    October 22nd, 2020 at 2:44 pm

    When you’re too macho to dress appropriately for your time-travel adventure.

  5. B. Chiclitz Says:
    October 22nd, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    “Hurry up, Earl. it feels as though the canoe of Damocles were hovering over us.”

  6. Francis Boyle Says:
    October 22nd, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    Naked Primitives! In Y-Fronts!

  7. Bruce A Munro Says:
    October 23rd, 2020 at 3:15 am

    “Naked primitives were dropping to Earth…”

    It’s raining men, hallelujah?

  8. GSS ex-noob Says:
    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.

  9. THX 1139 Says:
    October 23rd, 2020 at 11:49 am

    He won’t need an iron if he’s naked anyway.

  10. A. R. Yngve Says:
    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.

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