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Click for full imageHex Comments: There’s really not much I can say about this one, except that _someone_ in the design process for this book was taking the piss.
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Hex Comments: There’s really not much I can say about this one, except that _someone_ in the design process for this book was taking the piss.
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May 24th, 2010 at 9:39 am
That brea – I mean, planet – the PLANET on the left is kind of smushy for something presumably made of rock.
May 24th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Snort
May 24th, 2010 at 9:54 am
It’s the deleted ending from the 1968 Planet of the Apes film ! “Damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
May 24th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Cover art by Benny Hill.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:52 am
The literalism somehow makes “planet swapping” an activity on a par with marbles or Panini stickers. “Hey, you’ve got a spare Mars-like desert planet. I’ve got a double of a terraformed human-habitable world. Meet you behind the bike sheds at break time.”
Possibly Mike Meyers was inspired by this cover for the nude scenes in Austin Powers.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Hahaha GOOD SHOW SIR whoever made that
May 24th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
(Using my best Shatner voice)
Oh. I have. A loverly.
Bunch.
Of Coco. Nuts.
Big ones. Smallones!!
May 24th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I used to have a girlfriend who’d do that. Be as cold as ice. *cymbal crash* I know what you were thinking you dirty minded people.
I’m here all week.
May 24th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Those are planets? They’re a bit small, AA planet size? I mean that dude on the left is standing on one that he is nearly taller than.
The artist is a genius. Seriously. Good show sir.
@James, theres definately a air of future school boys swaping football stickers. I’ll swap you Tony Adams prime and Gary Neville for your Eric Cantona planet?
(in my reality, they’ll run out of names for planets and name them after 90’s celebrities. Don’t go to the water planet of Barrymore, it’s a trap)
May 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Maybe it’s me, but those men in the picture don’t seem nearly in a big enough panic. I mean, there is a giant head of a hermaphrodite made of ice right there! That’s some freaky shit…
May 24th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I’ve supplied the deleted word bubbles for the little guys in the foreground:
“Hey giant ice head!”
“Wassup massive ice lady!”
“Ice hair!”
May 24th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
e.lee wins the thread.
May 24th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
See also _Goddess in Granite_ by Robert F. Young, the plot of which involves someone mountain-climbing up a giant land formation in the precise shape of a lady in the altogether, and going into rhapsodies over her. (Personally I prefer women to be more alive and not weigh several billion tons.)
ISFDB tells me that they were written at about the same time (_The World Swappers_ was 1959, _Goddess in Granite_ was 1957). Maybe there was something in the air? It *was* just before the sixties, after all.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Boobies! Keeping abreast of the situation. A little tit for tat. OK, I’ll stop.
May 25th, 2010 at 2:20 am
It is just me or do those hands seem a little awkwardly positioned and a bit too masculine to belong to the ice lady? This begs a question: who has the courage to cop a feel of the planet breasts?
May 25th, 2010 at 3:57 am
Nice globes.
May 25th, 2010 at 8:14 am
“Swapping” is not what is happening to those planets. I think this book may actually be Brunner’s lost masterpiece, “The Planet Fondlers”.
May 25th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Incidentally, I think THIS should have been the cover to “The Shape of Sex to Come.”
May 26th, 2010 at 8:28 am
I think this Rolling Stone cover featuring Janet Jackson was inspired by THE WORLD SWAPPERS:
http://s11.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/e/i/eit8wyqnt6scie86.jpg
May 26th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Old ice lady with a flaky skin.
What’s not to like?
May 27th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Re: Planet Swapping
This sounds like a Monty Python sketch written by Douglas Adams…
Complainant:”This Planet Earth is dead…,
Shopkeeper: “No, it”s merely tired & shagged out after a long geologic era, Wonderful blue Oceans, though….”.
November 6th, 2015 at 1:45 am
On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin allowed two subcritical uranium spheres to come into contact, briefly generating a supercritical pulse of neutrons and a bright blue nude woman.
In the aftermath, J. Robert Oppenheimer remarked, ‘Now I am become Hubba Hubba Hubba, the Swapper of Worlds.’
November 9th, 2015 at 6:41 am
I can’t help seeing the ice-woman as Fanny Cradock.
November 10th, 2015 at 6:12 pm
They saw an incredibly dumb book cover and became…
THE FOREHEAD SLAPPERS
September 29th, 2017 at 11:53 am
I like that the White Walkers are diversifying, but I’m not sure about their criteria.
September 29th, 2017 at 1:31 pm
You do not want to fall through that ice.
September 29th, 2017 at 1:32 pm
That little smudge on the right edge actually looks like one of the strolling spacemen. I think he is trying to levitate himself off of this cover.
September 29th, 2017 at 2:10 pm
It’s like that Sopranos ep where Tony is road tripping his daughter checking out private colleges in Maine and comes across the mob informant in witness protection. He couldn’t draw lips either.
September 29th, 2017 at 2:18 pm
“World Swappers? … That’s a bit much for us. We thought your ad said “wife swappers” …
September 29th, 2017 at 3:07 pm
She ought to know spiked hair went out with the 90s.
September 29th, 2017 at 3:09 pm
Reminds me of Austin Powers.
Yeah, Baby!
September 29th, 2017 at 9:03 pm
The girl on the cover of Brunner
Had boobs that were half of a bummer
The left* looked like Mars
All arid and scarred
But the right one was Earthlike, and funner.
*as seen from the reader’s perspective
September 30th, 2017 at 9:50 am
A story about a world were people worship a giant ice sculpture of Kellyanne Conway. Must be, wait for it, alternative history.
September 30th, 2017 at 12:57 pm
@FB that explains it. Those must be Trump’s little hands. *shudders*
September 30th, 2017 at 3:31 pm
That flying wing looks a bit like the slice-shaped spacecraft from Earthgrip. Also, it’s going to clear her coif by maybe a handspan.