Lord Kelviin’s almost rght: as I recall it, the plot’s about gene-pools and herd immunity. Sort of like ‘The DNA Cowboys’ but with rustlers.
But it’s late 70s Penguin, so Adrian’s got his air-brush out and wrapped everyone in tinfoil. That might even be what the couple on the cover are doing with those odd tattoo-guns. I’d like to know quite how the holding that pose. (She doesn’t care: she thinks she’s on a Roxy Music album cover).
Why’s he got a bubble helmet (attn: TagW) and she doesn’t?
They can’t be in outer space, even though the background seems to imply it, but since neither one is wearing a space suit and proper helmet. So are they just in a zero-g disco, doing the floating Hustle and shaking their booty in Funky Town?
What gives with his wrappings? At least this is a rare instance where the man has more skin showing and stupider clothing than the woman.
August 3rd, 2022 at 11:10 am
The last days of space disco.
August 3rd, 2022 at 1:47 pm
Lord Kelviin’s almost rght: as I recall it, the plot’s about gene-pools and herd immunity. Sort of like ‘The DNA Cowboys’ but with rustlers.
But it’s late 70s Penguin, so Adrian’s got his air-brush out and wrapped everyone in tinfoil. That might even be what the couple on the cover are doing with those odd tattoo-guns. I’d like to know quite how the holding that pose. (She doesn’t care: she thinks she’s on a Roxy Music album cover).
August 3rd, 2022 at 3:19 pm
Fun Fact: This novel is available as a Public Domain audiobook (legally!) on Librivox.org:
https://librivox.org/search-the-sky-by-frederik-pohl/
SEARCH THE SKY is fun 1950s satire, by the authors of THE SPACE MERCHANTS.
August 3rd, 2022 at 3:20 pm
Now THAT cover is how you sell vaccination to skeptics.
August 3rd, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Let’s not search the sky tonight, I have a headache.
August 3rd, 2022 at 9:24 pm
That would have been a good look for Merlin/Morgana in ‘Excalibur’ 1981.
August 4th, 2022 at 12:16 am
Her punchbowl is a lot nicer than his, and fits better too.
August 4th, 2022 at 1:23 am
Why’s he got a bubble helmet (attn: TagW) and she doesn’t?
They can’t be in outer space, even though the background seems to imply it, but since neither one is wearing a space suit and proper helmet. So are they just in a zero-g disco, doing the floating Hustle and shaking their booty in Funky Town?
What gives with his wrappings? At least this is a rare instance where the man has more skin showing and stupider clothing than the woman.
August 4th, 2022 at 1:56 am
I judge thee, book, by thy (thine?) cover,
I would buy thee (used, of course) and read thee in public.
Amen.
It’s groovy and super shiny. The only thing it could be possibly be missing is a shiny silver VW Bug shaped space shuttle.
August 4th, 2022 at 12:30 pm
That may well be Sarah Brightman on the right, but I don’t think that’s Andrew Lloyd-Webber on the left.
August 4th, 2022 at 2:28 pm
I know it was the 7os, but there’s an unusual amount of man-underboob going there.
August 4th, 2022 at 8:40 pm
@Emster: this shot is cropped pretty closely, so I’m figuring there’s a shuttle/bug just past the frame. Maybe that’s it behind all the legs.
@FB: It’s like he didn’t have enough money for a full shiny suit like hers, and had to use a lot of remnants/scraps/
August 10th, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Call me old-fashioned, but kneecaps and face ought to point in the same direction. A prima facie case for Anatomcal Issues.
August 10th, 2022 at 11:39 pm
@Tat W: A bad case of displaced kneecaps – probably why he needs to wear silver disco knee supports.