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Click for full imageKristen Comments: Sorry about the poor quality of the shot…in any case, it looks like the designer decided to throw something from EVERY short story in this collection onto the cover. At least I hope so, because if there were also armed dinosaurs, fighter jets, and authors working on home computers on board the Titanic, history books have been holding out on us.
Published 1988
Wow!
Many thanks to Kristen!
(Average: 8.82 out of 10)
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October 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am
Bloody hell finally, a disastrous masterpiece that this site is known for!
October 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
Somebody should make a Titanic-movie out of that cover.
I’d go see it!
October 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am
Elderly Burt Reynolds in the foreground: I salute you!
October 21st, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Everything about this cover screams…. genius!
Please let the dinosaur be remote controlled! I want one!
October 21st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
@Weirdmage: agreed, if James Cameron had made THIS movie it would have been head and shoulders over that Leo DiCaprio disaster!
Key Quote: “I’m king of the AAAAAUUUUUGH!” *gets eaten by a t-rex*
October 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
No, that’s Papa Hemmingway and his trusty computer “Bessie”!
October 21st, 2010 at 7:16 pm
And the band played “Nearer My Allosaurus To Thee”…
October 21st, 2010 at 10:08 pm
‘And the band played “Nearer My Allosaurus To Theeâ€â€¦‘
Wins the thread!
October 28th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
You had me at “Dance Band on the Titanic”!
March 17th, 2014 at 1:51 am
A quick look at a better copy of the cover http://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/8302-dance-band-on-the-titanic reveals fresh wonders: a miniature Mississippi riverboat (bottom left) and Papa Hemingway’s keyboard is giving off more light than the screen. It’s also too big to be a conventional type-pad so maybe he’s writing in Pinyin. And pressing trousers with it.
And, let’s face it, in the event of gun-totin’ dinosaurs, Bret Maverick, a bent FI-II, Mitterand having a go at the trumpet and a sky that looks like a volcano’s going off out of shot, my trousers would need laundering.