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Click for full imageMichelle’s Art Direction: Ok, so I want a spaceman fighting a giant… a giant vagina!
Published 2010
Many thanks to Michelle!
(Average: 7.05 out of 10)
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Michelle’s Art Direction: Ok, so I want a spaceman fighting a giant… a giant vagina!
Published 2010
Many thanks to Michelle!
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October 5th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Well, they do have Piers Anthony on the lineup..
October 5th, 2010 at 10:16 am
It’s not really that bad. It just hurts my brain to think how the huge tentacle alien moves. Why can they always just float?
October 5th, 2010 at 10:41 am
#2: Presumably so they can present any credible threat to other, independently mobile species. Kind of like Nu Daleks.
October 5th, 2010 at 11:12 am
“Come to Beautiful Goxlan-8, and see the biggest aquarium in the galaxy!”
October 5th, 2010 at 11:13 am
“Before They Were Giants”… so all these writers are seven feet tall, then?
October 5th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
No, the punctuation is wrong. It should be:
Before, they were giants. Now, not so tall.
October 5th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
We can’t be silent before they were giants, and what’re we gonna do, unless they are?
In center, we have something else in the snow. And that on the left is Dr. Spock’s backup band.
October 5th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
This is not gonna help when trying to convince people that Science Fiction is not all about flying squids…
October 5th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
So this *isn’t* a sampler of They Might Be Giants’ early work? That’s a letdown…
October 5th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Do you suppose that space man spiff there needs to hold on tight just to keep from being thrown to the wolves?
All he needs in order to defeat that thing are sapphire bullets (of pure love).
October 5th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Is this a They Might Be Giants tribute act?
October 6th, 2010 at 1:01 am
Well you need something feminine on the front cover.
October 6th, 2010 at 6:43 am
The most unusual thing on this cover, space vagina aside, is that Cory Doctorow could be called a science fiction great.
October 6th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
@ Copelander:
Ouch! Zing!
October 7th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
“The most unusual thing on this cover, space vagina aside, is that Cory Doctorow could be called a science fiction great.”
Well, the editor of “Before They Were Giants” does seem to regard Piers Anthony and Cory Doctorow as equal talents. Either we assume the editor is correct (ouch!), or he isn’t (ouch! any which way you interpret it)…
November 29th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Seems like we got a cross between a space vagina and a tentacle monster.
So, sex and tentacle sex all wrapped up into one great package…
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 pm
MB: So when you scream, “go **** yourself, stupid space monster!!” well… it can.
December 2nd, 2013 at 6:11 pm
Was disappointed to learn that this wasn’t a They Might Be Giants retrospective.
December 2nd, 2013 at 6:38 pm
@ Tom Noir and everyone else who thought this: maybe it was? It could be like one of those 90s all-star tribute albums that always had Rev Horton Heat and Shonen Knife on them somewhere. But who’d do which song? Maybe it’s all covers of stuff from ‘Here Comes Science’ but off the top of my head (and I’ve not heard a lot of their stuff between ‘John Henry’ and ‘Nanobots’), maybe
Anthony: Spoiler Alert
Bear: Mammal (sorry)
Bova: Apollo XVIII
Doctorow: Hypnotist of Ladies
Gibson: Ana Ng
Haldeman: Black Ops
Mieville: Triangle Man
Niven: I Was a Snowball in Hell
Robinson: 1000 Years Old
Swanwick: Insect Hospital
And Many More: The ‘Fingertips’ Suite, one line each.
December 2nd, 2013 at 8:12 pm
@Tat: Flint: Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
December 9th, 2015 at 6:49 pm
Original title: ‘Back When They Were Virgins’.