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Click for full imageDave Comments: Let’s see. We have a guy in a tree, with a sword, getting ready to lop of the head of a snake, with its head super-imposed against The Moon. Paging Dr. Freud!
Published 1983
Hey, I’ve seen that scene in the jungle book!!
Many thanks to Dave!
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July 7th, 2010 at 10:49 am
TRRRrrrruusstt in meeeeee
July 7th, 2010 at 11:05 am
A man who clearly loves his surname in really big ’80s style! That font is super special.
Also…don’t you just love a phantasmagoria, they are my favourite.
July 7th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Question: Did he go to a land of giant snakes or did he and his machete shrink?
July 7th, 2010 at 11:43 am
I have no issue with the illustration. We all know giant snakes exist. I googled it.
What the hell is a “midnight phantasmagoria of illusion and reality”?
July 7th, 2010 at 11:57 am
The 80’s font is amazing….
Are those considered adequate jungle boots? I always considered them to be just for riding.
July 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Also, this is a health and safety violation. All he’s hanging onto is the snake. When he kills it, isn’t he going to fall down?
July 7th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
“Also, this is a health and safety violation. All he’s hanging onto is the snake. When he kills it, isn’t he going to fall down?”
I don’t think that situation is covered by the statutes.
However, it certainly is a violation against common sense.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Don’t kill that snake! It’s clearly a holy snake! Just look at the size of its halo!
July 7th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
“Also, this is a health and safety violation. All he’s hanging onto is the snake. When he kills it, isn’t he going to fall down?â€
It’s ok. He’s only a foot off the ground.
July 7th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I’m serious about the question, yo.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Sophaloaf> well the moon does look pretty big so I guess he could be a tiny man!
Also if a snake was that large I am sure it took about an hour to wrap itself around him and drag him up that tree.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I’ve never heard of the “James Hugo Award”
July 7th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Awarded by one James Hugo during a live webcast from his parents’ basement. This year he awarded it to the ‘Avatar’ novelization, “Cause it like totally had that deleted scene with the giant snakes.”
July 8th, 2010 at 7:22 am
The good news is he’s got both arms free, so he should be able to produce the tiny sign that reads “Uh oh!” in the couple of seconds between killing the snake and falling to the ground.
July 8th, 2010 at 8:50 am
I bet the snake actually did snatch him off a horse. Just look at his nice shirt and hairdo! Good for him that he always keeps a sword hidden in the handle of his polo stick …
July 13th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
The sad thing is, this is probably a really bad cover on a really good book. I mean, it’s *Blish*, someone who appeared incapable of writing a bad story. I’d say he was also SF’s best critic ever, but John Clute would throttle me in polysyllables and Adam Roberts would get all sarcastic and Chip Delany would say something deep and comprehensible only to alien superintelligences and I’d have to back off and apologise profusely.
Perhaps I could just say that Blish was SF’s best critic ever who happens to be dead.
May 16th, 2015 at 10:12 pm
The Night Shapes, and a great constriction pains
My chest, as though of venom I had drunk
Or emptied some snake plasma to the drains
One minute past, and Hugo ‘wards had sunk;
‘Tis in the darkest part of planet not
But past and future clash in happiness;
And thou, moon-litten Dryad of the trees
In some strange Blish-recorded plot
Have grabbéd me, and shadows numberless
Hiss midnight phantoms, illusions and realities
With apologies to Keats…