Nov 30
Click for larger imageRyan Comments: I don’t know about Circus World, more like Pepto-Bismol World.
Published 1981
(Average: 5.60 out of 10)
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Ryan Comments: I don’t know about Circus World, more like Pepto-Bismol World.
Published 1981
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November 30th, 2021 at 10:35 am
There’s Noah way this is a good idea.
November 30th, 2021 at 10:42 am
The cover artist was smart to hide the clown. Clowns are evil.
November 30th, 2021 at 1:42 pm
No matter where I click, I can’t remove these space sheep.
November 30th, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Sadly, Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI is currently closed for Covid. Though I have been by there before, and it doesn’t look much like the cover. And there are, indeed, clowns. So many clowns.
November 30th, 2021 at 3:10 pm
None more pink!
November 30th, 2021 at 6:18 pm
Warning: the real Baraboo is not this pink. No place on Earth is this pink.
November 30th, 2021 at 7:38 pm
Once again, looking at the treatment of circus animals through rose-tinted lenses.
November 30th, 2021 at 7:59 pm
They should have listened to the warning about the pink acid.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:08 pm
Ironically, the elephants are the one thing not pink here. So they can’t even cite ‘Dumbo’ as an inspiration.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Some interesting variant covers.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?3377
November 30th, 2021 at 9:33 pm
Sounds fun but they don’t tell you about the less glamorous part of the planet called “Manure World.”
November 30th, 2021 at 10:06 pm
I read this book in the 80s, and I don’t remember any planets being completely pink. Maybe in the future, people see pink planets instead of pink elephants?
@fred: It says a lot that this is the best cover the book ever had! At least it’s recognizably a circus with a spaceship (but thankfully no clowns depicted). Much better than the German edition with the art repurposed from an entirely different book.
December 1st, 2021 at 3:48 am
@A.R. Yngve: you’d better be ready to move your ship when the giant dung beetles come rolling their thousand ton manure balls.
Actually, clowns are much less scary in space. [1] Aliens just assume that’s their natural coloration and mode of dress, and if they act oddly, well, alien species.
[1] Well, to anyone _aside_ from humans.
December 15th, 2021 at 2:24 am
The German version just ganked the cover from Tanith Lee’s Day by Night for some reason.
December 15th, 2021 at 2:30 am
@Yamamanama: vagaries of international copyright law meant they didn’t have to pay for it?