Mar 09
Click for larger imageLord Kelvin Comments: Ack! My eyes!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1953
(Average: 6.91 out of 10)
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Lord Kelvin Comments: Ack! My eyes!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1953
(Average: 6.91 out of 10)Loading...
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March 9th, 2022 at 9:22 am
The Groucho Marx/Rita Hayworth slash fiction you never asked for.
March 9th, 2022 at 9:47 am
Worlds of the Well… maybe not.
March 9th, 2022 at 2:40 pm
“What’s that, Lassie? Rita Hayworth, Janus the two faced god, the entire Rapa Nui civilization, and a random nude sun bather are trapped down a well??”
March 9th, 2022 at 2:41 pm
Diaphanous tings.
Original pulp mag. Cover, interior art, synopsis/review. Looks like the Kuttner’s took the science of nucleur fission and whipped up a story.
https://schlock-value.com/2022/01/30/well-of-the-worlds/
March 9th, 2022 at 3:45 pm
I’m not sure whether Rita Hayworth is in possession of a magic wishbone, or whether she is just playing a really hot solo on the spoons.
March 9th, 2022 at 3:46 pm
@JuanPaul: GSS.
March 9th, 2022 at 4:21 pm
fred@4: Looks like they originally had a young (very, given it’s 1952, 18 years before she was born!) Winona Ryder cast in the original, plus someone who can actually draw.
March 9th, 2022 at 5:04 pm
This cover is the sort of disaster you’d expect when the UAI beginner class is given access to the oil pastels.
March 9th, 2022 at 8:37 pm
Hm. I don’t know about this one. Perhaps the original magazine cover was better:
https://schlockvalue.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/wp-1638747762219.jpg
March 9th, 2022 at 10:14 pm
@A.R.Y.—That magazine cover is really good! (Especially compared to the above.) Imagination, even a passable hot-sandaled foot, on display. Thanks for posting.
March 9th, 2022 at 11:28 pm
First off, I must do a “well, actually” (snerk) that CL Moore probably had a hand in this, since “Padgett” was usually both of them.
I think Lord Kelvin summed it up for all of us: ACK! MY EYES!
From what I can gather, the cover accurately represents the novel, which is even more frightening.
@JuanPaul: GSS!
@ARY: So this book originally had a pretty good cover and then it was all downhill from there.
March 31st, 2022 at 3:26 am
Publisher: We can’t call it “Wars of the Worlds”, we’ll get in trouble with the “War of the Worlds” gang. Why not call it “Well of the Worlds”? Kinda close, right?
Author: (sigh) Sure…