The right foot might pass muster, but the left has some serious gnarly toe issues. He also seems to have made the mistake of trying to relieve an itch on his side. Poor fella, it’s no wonder he’s so bad at 3-D checkers.
His “package” is a little too detailed. Plus it’s almost at dead-center so your eye goes right there.
But overall this cover is not that bad. I can’t see why, however, they didn’t move it down by a half-inch to give the word Chaos some breathing room without it being hidden behind the planet.
At first I was thinking : Yul Brynner. But that would have made this cover awesome. And it isn’t. Then, with the WEF in fricken Davos just concluded, I realized: Lloyd Blankfein. “I don’t own just this planet – I own the whole goddam Solar System, you punks! Watch me play marbles with Mars and Venus, peons!”
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April 21st, 2021 at 2:44 pm
Has there ever been an edition of this book published without a dreadful cover?
April 21st, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Perfectly captures my own mental image of what a concert featuring The Orb must be like.
April 21st, 2021 at 3:03 pm
Why is he showing us a large cabbage?
April 21st, 2021 at 3:50 pm
I can say with 100% certainty he wasn’t a COVID tp hoarder.
April 21st, 2021 at 3:57 pm
Who wants to play a game of 3-D Chinese Checkers with galaxy brain here?
April 21st, 2021 at 4:17 pm
Lloyd Bochner takes a break from guest-starring in 1970s TV shows to relax and try out his new RonCo Spinning Ball Nail File.
April 21st, 2021 at 4:21 pm
You ain’t never had a friend like me.
April 21st, 2021 at 4:44 pm
Just because he’s raised an eyebrow doesn’t mean he can get away with spending all day lounging in his underwear.
April 21st, 2021 at 7:06 pm
The right foot might pass muster, but the left has some serious gnarly toe issues. He also seems to have made the mistake of trying to relieve an itch on his side. Poor fella, it’s no wonder he’s so bad at 3-D checkers.
April 21st, 2021 at 10:03 pm
(Topical joke we’ll need to look up in a month)
Are those Dyson Spheres?
April 21st, 2021 at 10:28 pm
@THX 1139: you’d be surprised what some people have been getting up to during the quarantine.
April 22nd, 2021 at 1:35 am
@Max: no, and ISFDB shows at least one more that could be here.
@fred: Only in his tighty-blackies, uncut fingernails, and eating cabbage (cf. @MakkaPakka)? I don’t want to imagine what he smells like!
@BC: However, his right ankle/lower leg makes up for it. Mine didn’t bend at that angle even when it was broken!
@Tat: I had to look it up now!
April 22nd, 2021 at 6:23 pm
His “package” is a little too detailed. Plus it’s almost at dead-center so your eye goes right there.
But overall this cover is not that bad. I can’t see why, however, they didn’t move it down by a half-inch to give the word Chaos some breathing room without it being hidden behind the planet.
April 22nd, 2021 at 10:00 pm
@Tracy: and it’s even more emphasized by the incongruous abdominal lines.
You’re right in that they should have put the title higher. Just a smidge would do. The checkerboard pattern on the very bottom is extraneous.
May 18th, 2021 at 5:29 pm
If the book is re-released today, the chessboard imagery has to go. It is so last century!
In today’s more sophisticated world, the symbol for “intellectual games” isn’t chess, but…
…emojis?
On second thoughts, a cover where a sinister-looking figure manipulates emojis might seem a bit daft.
May 19th, 2021 at 4:20 am
@ARY: Maybe it could be replaced with Candy Crush? Match 3 planets in a row?
May 19th, 2021 at 4:49 am
Emojis are the symbol for intellectual games? News to me. (Excuse me for a sec. There are some kids on the lawn and that cane won’t shake itself).
June 1st, 2022 at 3:28 am
At first I was thinking : Yul Brynner. But that would have made this cover awesome. And it isn’t. Then, with the WEF in fricken Davos just concluded, I realized: Lloyd Blankfein. “I don’t own just this planet – I own the whole goddam Solar System, you punks! Watch me play marbles with Mars and Venus, peons!”