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Travelling Towards Epsilon

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I never turn down a warped blue man who's missing a crotch and wearing leggings.... wait... Click for full image

Art Direction: I don’t know how you did it when you worked for others but here at New English Library, we go out and get drunk. Then take LSD. Then run around the countryside for a good weekend continually engaging in any type of physical fulfillment we can find. Whatever you’ve drawn by the end we’ll shove on some cover.
Published 1978

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 7.17 out of 10)
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14 Responses to “Travelling Towards Epsilon”

  1. THX 1138 Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 am

    My dad had this book and I always thought the cover was really creepy… sort of like the astronaut is going through his own personal apocalypse. Actually, I still think it’s creepy. Brr!

  2. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:53 am

    When traveling towards Epsilon, it is an all-or-nothing proposition. That is, part of you can’t stay behind while the other part of you goes on.

    The only saving grace of this cover would be if it somehow related to one of the stories inside. But you would have to be Lovecraft or Lem to write something as horrid as that cover.

  3. Evad Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Invisible toilet bowls on transportation to Epsilon.

  4. A.R.Yngve Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Illustrating the featured story “Eraser”, no doubt.

  5. SI Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    I’ve figured it out… those are not his legs! Who’s he nicked them from? Eh?

  6. NGpm Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 5:30 am

    A tiger perhaps? Or two men posing as a tiger?

  7. A.R.Yngve Says:
    December 15th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    “Boss! The artist was coming over with the cover art for the new book… then he slipped and fell. The art fell into the gutter and was smeared! Deadline’s in two hours? What’ll we do?!”

    “It’s no use… we’ll go with the cover as it is.”

  8. A.R.Yngve Says:
    December 20th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    “Tonight on Oprah: Surrealism, and the artists who love it too much.”

  9. Tat Wood Says:
    April 11th, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    We name the guilty party: it was Joe Petagno, apparently, who painted this between grebo album covers.

  10. Tor Mented Says:
    November 17th, 2017 at 5:07 am

    Hey! Close the door! ‘Ocupado,’ pal!

  11. fred Says:
    January 28th, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    Mr. E. from Tau Ceti out for a Sunday jaunt.

  12. B. Chiclitz Says:
    January 28th, 2022 at 6:55 pm

    Bighanditis? Not to mention Big-BM-itis . . . .

  13. GSS ex-noob Says:
    January 28th, 2022 at 10:57 pm

    So, don’t use the facilities when you’re on the way to Epsilon, lest you disintegrate. Got it.

    Think I’ll just stay home.

  14. Bruce A Munro Says:
    January 29th, 2022 at 12:50 am

    “I knew I shouldn’t have eaten those Dark Matter brownies!”

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