“Gol-durn it, I’ve told you space babies to stay out of my back 40! Now git and take yer luminous star-stuff with you, or I’ll warm your ass with with my atomic squirrelin’ rifle!”
Gotta agree with @Francis Boyle: that is one B-horror movie murky cover.
@THX: Good point. “Here’s a bunch of stories… we couldn’t be bothered to get decent cover art. But hey, 101! Such a deal! You’re bound to like one or two of them!”
November 12th, 2020 at 9:40 am
With 101 stories to fill, the baby’s one of the authors, right?
November 12th, 2020 at 11:27 am
Thanos would like this cover. The words are symmetrically balanced. Glad I wasn’t the poor bastard who had to figure that one out.
November 12th, 2020 at 11:56 am
Twist: all the stories are about uses for a dead cat: in space.
November 12th, 2020 at 2:34 pm
One of the stories must be “Goodnight Moon”.
November 12th, 2020 at 2:35 pm
The Elmer Fudd origin story we’ve all been waiting for these long years.
November 12th, 2020 at 2:55 pm
It’s an alternate movie poster for ‘Children of Men’.
November 12th, 2020 at 3:42 pm
So that’s where they come from.
November 12th, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Isn’t Waugh-Waugh the noise the baby makes?
November 12th, 2020 at 7:33 pm
Murky murk, indeed. Nothing says “Science Fiction” like baby-shit brown.
November 12th, 2020 at 9:37 pm
“Got ‘I’m! I just love doin’ me some possum huntin’ at night with this new laser scope gun sight. Never misses . . . oh, er . . . uh, oh, oh shit.”
November 13th, 2020 at 1:46 am
Full list.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?296802+f
November 13th, 2020 at 2:17 am
Inspired by previous posts:
“Gol-durn it, I’ve told you space babies to stay out of my back 40! Now git and take yer luminous star-stuff with you, or I’ll warm your ass with with my atomic squirrelin’ rifle!”
Gotta agree with @Francis Boyle: that is one B-horror movie murky cover.
November 14th, 2020 at 4:22 am
A whole bunch of reprints, with a guy in a pith helmet going after the Starchild from 2001, who has you-know-what all over the cover.
Yeah, that doesn’t scream “great sci fi” to me either.
November 14th, 2020 at 12:06 pm
@GSS xn: To be fair, the cover doesn’t say they’re great sci-fi stories, it just says there’s 101 of them.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:00 am
@THX: Good point. “Here’s a bunch of stories… we couldn’t be bothered to get decent cover art. But hey, 101! Such a deal! You’re bound to like one or two of them!”
November 15th, 2020 at 12:50 am
“One more than Asimov’s collection!”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666584.100_Great_Science_Fiction_Short_Short_Stories
June 2nd, 2021 at 8:00 am
I feel like I need a torch to see this cover. It’s so dark!
October 18th, 2021 at 9:47 am
Edited by A Bunch of People, with Art Direction by Some Weird Hillbilly.