Apr 11
Ryan comments: The cover of “Fool’s Run” was so shiny that I took it into the bathroom and tried to photograph it in the dark. No luck, it was either almost unviewable because it was too shiny, or else it was eclipsed by the darkness; there was no middle ground.
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Published 1988
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April 11th, 2023 at 11:38 am
It’s like the whole cover is under attack from one of those shimmery energy beings from early Trek.
April 11th, 2023 at 12:06 pm
Searches for reflecto-porn and finds window blinds.
(although a shimmery Ryan is crammed to the left)
April 11th, 2023 at 12:21 pm
Fwl’s Run. Is it Welsh?
April 11th, 2023 at 1:47 pm
No matter how he tried, Putin couldn’t get people to vote for Russia’s Eurovision entries any more.
April 11th, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Her name is Queen of Hearts. Inconceivable!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Run
April 11th, 2023 at 3:34 pm
Among physicians, the word “Embossitis” means eye damage caused by excessively shiny covers.
April 11th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
@Blue, Ryan: On IMDB, Ryan would be listed as “Crew or Equipment Visible.”
April 11th, 2023 at 5:06 pm
@Tor Mented: I think you meant, “Increasingly Frustrated Crew or Equipment Visible.” @#$% holographic cover!
April 11th, 2023 at 5:46 pm
I like how her Hammer pants flow into the shiny cover.
April 11th, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Her family never really approved of her running away from the Marines to join the circus.
April 11th, 2023 at 7:38 pm
@bruce this could be a multiverse thing like in Rick and Morty
April 11th, 2023 at 8:38 pm
“Fool’s Running Suit” – it probably went unnoticed with all the big hair, shoulder pads, headbands and brightly coloured silliness that passed for fashion in the mid-80’s. And if this book was aimed at YA of that era, ’nuff said.
@Ryan: Between embossiness and overhead lighting, taking a sharp picture of a potential GSS cover, then quietly reshelving it without notice, is a talent in and of itself…
April 11th, 2023 at 8:57 pm
I would like to inquire about her yellow face (her hands are OK) and her fashion sense.
Maybe in THE FUTURE (echo), the Fashion Police are heavily-armed, and that’s who she’s running away from. Foolishly.
The OO look like a pair of weirdly shaped eyes. Surveillance for the Fashion Police?
@FB: Or possibly covered in loose plastic wrap.
@Tor: Heh and GSS.
@The Blue: It’s so shiny and weird it almost can’t be photographed. Ryan shows up almost as well as the cover items!
@Ryan: Thank you for your patience.
April 11th, 2023 at 9:11 pm
@Emster (12)—Don’t forget the puffy sleeves. They make this cover what it is, whatever it is.
@Tor M—another GSS for thee 😉
April 12th, 2023 at 2:10 am
Fools Run When A Good Man Goes To War?
April 12th, 2023 at 4:27 am
It kinda looks like she’s been stretch-wrapped to the cover and is tearing her way out of it….
April 12th, 2023 at 10:38 pm
@Hammy: Which I guess is why the gun-toting humanoid isn’t shooting? Because s/he/it/they know she can’t get through it, and doesn’t want to break the seal?
It reminds me of the clear plastic covers that get put onto library paperbacks. Those are thick. Maybe that’s what the putative wrap is made of.
It’s not much better when non-shiny. Could be worse, though — could be drowned fairy bum on the beach as seen before. Or even this artwork could be on a worse cover:
https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/9/9a/FLSRUN1988.jpg
(even for Michael Whelan, feet are hard to draw?)