Jun 08
Click for full imageJessie Comments: The marks to the left of the floating cat head are my fault – they’re scratches from when i was ripping off the $1 used book price tag.
Published 1978
I think the scratches are the least of this covers problems!
Many thanks to Jessie!
(Average: 6.37 out of 10)
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June 8th, 2010 at 9:37 am
It’s a human with a cat head and a tail! (This is called a ‘cat’ by many artists who have never seen any nonhuman mammals before.)
June 8th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Cat people! Fantastic.
At least the man is wearing a loincloth. The cat women is just walking around that place in the buff. Maybe the guy is saying:
“Hey, show them your money makers and maybe they’ll stop and give us a lift.”
June 8th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I think one of the best parts is that the recommendation is from the author of THE FEMALE MAN. There’s no way that could have been a good cover, either…
June 8th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I’ve got nothing. This is fully awesome. It may be Frank Frazetta.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
‘unusually ingenious scenery’ …hark, the sound of barrel bottoms being scraped.
Really, it is good! There are some great trees in it!
June 8th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
God-Cat figure: “I can has a snuggie?”
June 8th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I reckon it’s Boris Val-Jell-o.
June 8th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Seems to be Boris Vallejo, actually. Awesome!
June 8th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Looks like that was the ole Vallejo! Nice spot!
June 8th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I came across your website courtesy of Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. While I am not a sci-fi fan, I am a connoiseur of mondo bizarro, and your site always brightens my day!
Seeing today’s cover immediately reminded me of Omaha the Cat Dancer. I thought all the good sirs and madams would be interested.
June 8th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Imagine the size and odour of the cat-deity’s litterbox…
June 8th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Must not… ogle… catwoman’s bottom…
June 8th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
By Sky-Cat’s command!
June 8th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Behold!
June 8th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
…with the surname Felice? Now, that’s just a little too apropos.
June 9th, 2010 at 12:33 am
I don’t quite see the ‘man’ bit of the title there. Perhaps ‘The Slightly More Female Female’?
June 9th, 2010 at 2:22 am
When she coughs up her hairball, I wonder if it is composed of the pubes of that guy.
June 9th, 2010 at 3:02 am
This must have been a difficult one for Boris – the tail made the usual chainmail panties impossible…
And the cat-deity must have had some BAD tuna. Distinctly green about the gills.
(And a note to our friendly tag writer: despite the SciFi topic, the publisher’s actually POCKET Books.)
June 9th, 2010 at 8:50 am
@Don Hillard – Good spot! My excuse is that it was tagged before my morning coffee! And the crease kinda covers the P 🙂
June 9th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
“Purr-doz has spoken!”
June 9th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I stand corrected! I believe Boris more than Frank. Dang my backwater art schoolin’
June 10th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Sexy cat lady, hunky shirtless man, strange planet = Avatar.
June 14th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
[Charlton Heston voice] “A planet where cats evolved from men?? It’s a MADHOUSE!! A MADHOUSE!!”
June 18th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Ceiling cat demands your loyalty.
December 20th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
“You maniacs! You blew it all up! You finally used the Cat-Bomb! Damn you all to hell!”
May 8th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
just started to read this, based on this page… um horrible story, but will continue to see if there is cat on cat humanoid sex in it.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
That cat god is wearing an awful lot of makeup. Its eyes (and eyebrows) are genuinely creepy.
June 29th, 2015 at 11:13 pm
I always read SF for the scenery.
August 27th, 2015 at 1:26 am
This is just so ludicrous I can’t help but laugh. I mean . . . where are they? Ancient Egypt? Giant cat heads floating in midair? Vallejo’s outdone himself for sheer nonsensicality of this image.
November 18th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Thank goodness we were spared the misery of the blurb!
November 18th, 2016 at 12:57 pm
I’m picturing the live nude model standing around the studio all day, wearing cat ears and a tail, while Boris Vallejo painted this masterpiece.
November 18th, 2016 at 1:42 pm
GODSFIRE Boris, demand new cover edition!
Today’s sci-fi headline . . .
November 18th, 2016 at 1:45 pm
@BC:GODMAN sets GODSFIRE near Topeka, THE GODS LOOK DOWN on his behaviour and now THE GODS HATE KANSAS.
Is there no depth to which these gods will not sink, I ask you?
November 18th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
@DSWBT—Apparently not.
November 18th, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Somehow natural selection determined that the cat’s head and tail are better attributes for survival than the running, jumping, hunting parts. .
November 18th, 2016 at 3:00 pm
@BC: pish posh, everyone knows God Lives Underwater.
November 18th, 2016 at 4:53 pm
All Hail Bastet-Ra, Cat-Lord!
. . . in all seriousness, has anyone else considered how confused that human guy must be? Is the spaceship there to pick him up, or what?
November 18th, 2016 at 5:17 pm
The fighter jet just ruins the whole funky ambiance of the cover. Catbirds maybe, but not jets.
November 18th, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Looks like someone Fritz the Cat would be banging.
November 18th, 2016 at 8:36 pm
Weirdly sexualised anthropomorphic cats on a cheap sci-fi novel cover? And it’s not by Fritz Leiber?
Something something humanoid cats something something Red Dwarf reference.
November 18th, 2016 at 8:43 pm
@Vyrmis: how about…
‘I hope they pull over soon…I haven’t permed my leg hairs in a week!’
‘You perm your leg hairs?’
‘Only as an aid to the natural curl.’
November 23rd, 2016 at 7:59 am
@Vyrmis. Where have you been, my friend? Cat-people are an essential sci-fi ingredient!