Oct 18
Click for full imageTerry’s Art Direction: You see, nothing says ‘saving the universe from a 30,000 year descent into barbarism’ like a floating dead brain and two eyeballs. Oh, and be sure to lace it with lightning, and oh yeah it is a space story so put stars and stuff behind it.
Published 1983 (maybe)
Still not exactly sure who the publisher is.
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October 18th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Foundation’s Edge.
I think that it may be Granada – assuming that the metadata on Goodreads is correct anyway.
Great days, though; I’m sure that’s the same cover as the edition I borrowed from Cumbernauld Library.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Thanks Richard!
Still not sure, it looks to be either Granada or Grafton. Fantasy Fiction has that book under Grafton.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/edition/?isbn=0246120126
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0246120126/ref=nosim/authordatabase
Obscure versions! I’m loving it! Thanks for your help!
October 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
I just can’t get the futurama episodes about the space brains out of my head now.
October 18th, 2010 at 10:12 am
I had so many of this vintage Asimov titles. I especially like the way they use up all the capital letters on ‘ISAAC’ and have none left for the surname.
October 18th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Spacebrain looks a bit Starship Enterprise to me. Cloaking device fail.
Doubleday 1982? (Cumbernauld Library)
http://encore.oslri.net/iii/encore/record/C|Rb1050338|Sfoundation%27s+edge|P0%2C3|Orightresult|X5?lang=eng&suite=pearl
October 18th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
This is your brain on Asimov.
October 18th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
For me it’s the eyes, “All bow down before the great and mighty hypno-brain!”
October 19th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
If there was some serious thought behind this cover art design, it probably went like this:
“People who read Foundation books think that they are super-brainy, super-clever people. So let’s pander to that audience by showing them their own imaginary super-duper brains…”
October 20th, 2010 at 12:08 am
What? Can’t you remember the plot twist where Second Foundationers are revealed to be floating brains? If the Seldon Plan is threatened, they shoot the threat down with their deadly lightning. Then Kimball Kinnison comes and kills them all with his deadly hedge-trimmer, because genocide is a happy thing that everyone likes to do (see e.g. Langford, D., _Fun With Senseless Violence_ for detailed citations).
(Hence the title. They seem to have typoed, though, and left the ‘H’ off.)
October 20th, 2010 at 8:54 am
I used to own a hardcover edition of this, with that exact cover. Couldn’t get rid of it quick enough…
It can’t be a brain, because it appears to be spherical. I think it’s a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, left too near a radiator.
November 16th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Looks like an illustration of the classic orb song…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Huge_Ever_Growing_Pulsating_Brain_That_Rules_from_the_Centre_of_the_Ultraworld
February 24th, 2011 at 10:07 am
The plan to save Disney’s brain hit a snag, when someone accidentally dropped a toaster in the vat.
March 1st, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Nothing says scary like eyes akimbo
February 26th, 2014 at 11:21 am
Welcome to the show. Tonight, we’ll be making Electric Brains in Tomato Sauce with Capitalisation Salad.
November 29th, 2017 at 4:12 pm
“Capitalization Salad” made me laugh.