Nov 01
Good Show Sir Comments: Das Boobie
Published 1970
(Average: 7.67 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Das Boobie
Published 1970
(Average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading...
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November 1st, 2023 at 9:51 am
My O-Level German from way back tells me that the title means ‘Changelings’. Maybe German children are told that if they wander off and go to sleep, they will be replaced by bad Alan Aldrich knock-offs.
UPDATE: ISFDB says this is ‘The Silkie’. So that’s a seal passing un-noticed in the Hebrides.
November 1st, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Nein liken.
November 1st, 2023 at 1:11 pm
If you have Die Veränderlichen I suggest some bleach and a good large brush. The same technique may work for the memory of this cover but I wouldn’t bet on it.
November 1st, 2023 at 3:22 pm
Der Unsinn. Es gefällt mir nicht.
November 1st, 2023 at 4:40 pm
That hat looks a little uncomfortable.
So at SF cover art school you have to choose which body parts you want to major in? Took the foot class then dropped out? So many questions…
November 1st, 2023 at 4:57 pm
That crack AI wiz Google Translate™ gives “The Changeables” for Die Veränderlichen so this must be another ad for Space Depends™ which, it appears, she’s in some need of. Also in need of ankle transplants.
November 1st, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Will Devo manage to escape from this terrible cover in their little rocket? Stay tuned!
November 1st, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Der WTF is more like it.
Another in the “Throw rockets and weird shit on the cover, it’s sci fi. Don’t forget the boobs. Never mind if it’s nothing to do with the text.”
Why is the whatever that is she has for a head bleeding onto the book or tray attached to her boobs? Possibly attached by suction cups.
I’ve read the synopsis of “The Changeling”, and… this ain’t it.
@Bruce, BC, Francis: GSS!
November 1st, 2023 at 10:22 pm
The 1970s were a pretty productive era for bad SF covers, really. ’twas the era of Viskubic, among others… https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?tag=gary-viskupic
Some publishers were pretty consistently second and occasionally third rate when it came to their cover choices: see, Doubleday
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?8
November 2nd, 2023 at 11:10 pm
@Bruce: And let’s not forget, Doubleday owned SFBC, from which so many of our honorees have come, like your first link.
A version of GSS in the 80s-90s would have had plenty of those on.