Jun 04
Sarah’s Art Direction: Look, I know it’s 4:30 on a Friday, but surely you can come up with something.
Tag Wizard: The whole GSS staff is away on a team-building seminar this week. Trust falls and all that. Enjoy a GSS Retrospective until we return!
June 4th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Gah! Scary floating head!
It’s like that time I took those mushrooms, Portobello I believe… but then after dinner I watched a 70’s psychedelic movie.
June 4th, 2010 at 11:04 am
I don’t know, i think i like this one.
I’m definately intrigued as to why a lizardman wearing a 1900’s suit is riding a Penny-farthing bicycle through the set of a western movie.
June 4th, 2010 at 11:42 am
After the American channel AMC released the rights to The Prisoner, the only buyer was the economically challenged lizardoid people of planet Gleebanx.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Sometimes a Sleestak just wants to enjoy a nice Sunday ride, is that so wrong?
June 4th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Only two colours – an ink-saving measure, or a colour-blind designer?
Riding a penny farthing isn’t easy at the best of times.
June 4th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
One of the moons is a head!
June 5th, 2010 at 12:26 am
This book needs a bilious colour scheme like a lizard needs a bicyc… hang on…
June 5th, 2010 at 7:08 am
Call me strange if you want, but I think this cover really works! I’d pick it up and give it a read.
June 5th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
The text says, “A galactic newshound takes on a freaked-out planet.” Doesn’t say who wins, though. Clearly, it’s not the readers.
June 5th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Nice cover…
Alternate book titles:
– IT’S NOT EASY SEEING GREEN
– ON A BICYCLE MADE FOR ONE
– FANTASTIC VOYAGE INTO DAVID ICKE’S BRAIN
;-P
June 6th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Yea I do rather like this one. I would definitely buy it.
Though I am pretty sure riding any thin wheel based transport through that type of terrain would be mighty difficult!
June 6th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Unless you’re a SPACE FROG!
June 6th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
That’s no frog… that’s a… well… that thing from star trek.
http://www.newanimal.org/gorn_star_trek.jpg
June 7th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
I actually rather like this one. And I’m no amphibiphile.
June 9th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Minor Rule 3 infraction here: like pretty much all of Ron Goulart’s SF (at least the stuff he writes under his own name – see the TekWar entry earlier), it’s a comedy/parody.
Even so, this cover looks like it’s TRYING to be serious. Therefore, Good Show Sir!
November 30th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
It’s like Frog and Toad gone horribly, horribly wrong.
January 14th, 2016 at 9:43 pm
What H. L. Mencken would see when he went on a bender.
June 6th, 2022 at 12:14 pm
Perhaps Roddy Piper’s finest hour.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/mediaviewer/rm3032101888/
June 6th, 2022 at 4:18 pm
What happen when you park your penny-farthing illegally?
You get toad.
June 6th, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Gary Oldman immediately regretted signing on for ‘Zardoz II’
June 6th, 2022 at 11:53 pm
Little too much partying for the Platty Jubes, GSS lads, requiring a rerun? You know you can’t drink as much as that family. Is this cover representative of what you saw when you first awoke?
@fred: Good find and so apropos, though I’d argue Roddy’s finest hour was “They Live”. If only for the bubble gum line.
@Tor: groan!