Dec 01
Click for full imageGreengerg’s Art Direction: Elephants have the natural ability to survive in the vacuum of space. No? Well, draw it that anyway, bub.
Published 1985
Many thanks to Greengerg!
(Average: 5.85 out of 10)
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Greengerg’s Art Direction: Elephants have the natural ability to survive in the vacuum of space. No? Well, draw it that anyway, bub.
Published 1985
Many thanks to Greengerg!
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December 1st, 2010 at 9:02 am
I bet the whale and the petunia are just behind the elephant…I like it! 🙂
December 1st, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to… the milky way?
This cover is amazing. In public transport just imagine the respect you would earn for reading this. One would need to have an unlit pipe in his/her mouth too!
December 1st, 2010 at 12:09 pm
– Ah, the proverbial elephant in the room. (Said elephant being Robert A. Heinlein… in a Spider Robinson book. Get it?)
December 1st, 2010 at 3:21 pm
The exciting 35th book in the increasingly unreasonably named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy: So Long and Thanks for all the Peanuts.
December 1st, 2010 at 3:26 pm
I don’t usually get wrapped up in the fonts, but that one’s a doozy. It’s almost unreadable. It’s like al-Qaida got hold of Bauhaus and twisted it to their own evil ends.
December 1st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
The “Star Wars” opening crawl would read something like this:
——————
The Search For The New Heinlein, Part XXVII: MELANCHOLY ELEPHANTS
It is a dark time for the Galaxy of Heinlein Wannabes and Heinlein Fans.
For the longest time, they have searched far and wide for a new writer who
would be like Robert Heinlein: Creative, through-provoking, original — but
exactly like Heinlein, so they won’t have to be surprised or challenged.
Now, a new contender enters the Galaxy and the fans hold their breath:
Can this be their promised savior? The new would-be-Heinlein approaches…
December 1st, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Where can I get the elephant trunk font?
December 1st, 2010 at 9:57 pm
The Discworld turtle better back up – man overboard!
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 am
“The elephant drive is going to go critical! Quick jettison it!”
December 15th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
In space, no one can hear you trumpet.
December 15th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I’m trying to think of a cover that would make sense for a story about the effects of overreaching copyright/patent terms. Perhaps a library, its doors chained shut, its contents visibly crumbling… it would be a lot more *depressing* than this cover, but then that’s the story for you.
However it would require the artist to actually read the story, which is obviously an intolerable constraint on artistic freedom.
December 15th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
that elephant looks more sleepy than melancholy
December 20th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I don’t think this book sold well in India.
March 21st, 2013 at 12:52 am
“Didn’t Spider Robinson play guitar in the old Toots Sweet band? Guess I’m going back to Harlem:
Johnny…
Harry…
Johnny..
March 22nd, 2013 at 7:58 pm
“…I’d Nominate Spider Robinson as the New Robert Heinlein.”
Having read both authors, I’d have to agree with that statement.
Just not in a good way.
January 27th, 2014 at 8:00 am
Ba-Da-Bum, Stevie!
😉
April 21st, 2015 at 10:58 pm
Working title: Infinite Sadness Castle.
August 14th, 2015 at 7:02 pm
In space, no one can find the pet elephant you accidentally killed.
November 13th, 2016 at 1:11 pm
In his teen years, Dumbo got into much harder substances than watered-down champagne. Pink planets replaced pink elephants.
November 14th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Remember space travellers, An Elephant is for life, not just for space Christmas!