Dec 15
Click for full imageLibraryman comments: This cover has it all!
- Large centipede monster: check
- Flying Manta Rays: check
- Improbable mouths: check
- Pink foliage: check
- Big head Charles Bronson babysitting two “special” people : You better believe a check!
Published 1985 (maybe)
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December 15th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Scrollover stole my gag! Damn you, scrollover!
What are those blobs growing round the edge of the top half of the cover? Button mushrooms? Tiny apples? Carbuncles?
December 15th, 2010 at 9:27 am
They’re mold! The editor left the book in a moist place… oh, we can’t have nice things!
December 15th, 2010 at 9:28 am
OMNIVORE: The Rush Limbaugh Story.
December 15th, 2010 at 9:36 am
“Well… looks like I grew this moustache for nothing…”
Actually I am saying it, I love this cover.
And taking it to a nerd level further. Anyone who’s played Half Life. I seem to remember all those things in the XEN levels.
December 15th, 2010 at 10:53 am
But which one of them will prove to be…..
the OMNIVORE
December 15th, 2010 at 11:32 am
“Three explorers discover a strange alien ecosystem – that carries the seed of Gordon Ramsay’s destruction:
CHEFIVORE”
December 15th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Justin, I think it’s that neon blue ball cactus in the middle of the background. There’s no other reason to put it in a place that naturally draws the eye. That must be the Omnivore.
December 15th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
“This is your brain on FOX News. Any questions?”
December 15th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
“Welcome to Fantasy Island… FOR REAL.”
December 15th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
The expressions are so wrong. It’s as though they’re trying to find the luggage carousels in an airport. If I were being menaced by a strange creature’s head and behind at the same time, I would express something other than measured nonchalance.
December 15th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Additional. I wondered why the caretaker was holding his gun in such a strange way. Then I realized, it looks like it’s made of glass.
December 15th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Next time Dave Langford complains about SF not being taken seriously, I’ll shove that cover in his face and say: “THAT is why SF is not being taken seriously.”
And then Dave will never complain again.
December 15th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
WTF – no WTF tag for this?
December 15th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Evad – Good point! There is now!
December 15th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
The whole Bronson thing’s got a hold of me … can’t stop laughing.
I just picture Special No. 1 saying, “Can I go play with spores, can I, can I can I?”
Then Bronson says, “No dice!”
December 15th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
More like “Fantastic Voyage” in Rush Limbaugh’s stomach!
December 15th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Shouldn’t that be called Horror rather than SF?
😉
December 15th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
hey, the Earth carries plenty enough seeds of its own destruction, thankyouverymuch
December 15th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
But seriously, this scene is no more different than ANY Friday night in downtown Moscow.
December 15th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Must … resist … urge … to … identify … font
December 15th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I think they are going to need a bigger gun.
December 16th, 2010 at 3:53 am
I’m pretty sure that’s Omnivore Sans.
July 6th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I actually own and have read this book, its very strange. :/ It’s about a ecosystem primarily made up of sophisticated molds. Everything about the animals/fauna has been thought out based on the likely evolutionary paths.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:16 am
Look out red-shirt! 1979 James Doohan in beige sweater-jacket civvies will not save you with his phase rifle.