Feb 03
Click for full imageJosh Comments: Yeah, there’s definitely nothing homoerotic about this one.
Published 1983
Top reads – “A big concept, brilliantly worked out… Manseed is vintage Jack Williamson and you won’t be able to find better than that!” Frederik Pohl
(Average: 8.50 out of 10)
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February 3rd, 2011 at 9:25 am
no comment
February 3rd, 2011 at 9:55 am
This cover proves that even an old established author can reach an entirely new audience, with the right marketing.
(Now, about that umpteenth re-release of Starship Troopers… )
February 3rd, 2011 at 10:29 am
“Ahhh there goes Frank. He’s got the most expensive urine catheter money can buy.”
February 3rd, 2011 at 10:36 am
I didn’t think they gave out Oscars for that kind of material, but if they did, here’s your statuette, boys!
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Difficult trying to not look closely but still decide if the musculature is as messed-up as it appears.
February 3rd, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Is that the Silver Surfer’s cousin, the FABULOUS Golden Boarder?
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Is this the Space Wayfarer Bilbabalba-Bullet?
Everything about this is just so … I’m not even sure what it is, but it’s very good at being that.
What’s up with the umbilical attachment to the nose cone?
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:46 pm
A golden man riding a golden phallus toward a giant blue orb under the word “manseed”…why even BOTHER to comment?
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:57 pm
NGpm: I think that is a catheter.
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Cover art recycled from the lesser-known novel COSMIC COLOSTOMY BAG, by Thorvald Crapman.
February 3rd, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Atlas, putting the weight of the Earth to one side for a moment, and appreciating a quiet moment of repose.
February 3rd, 2011 at 8:51 pm
@David H: I preferred to think of it the other way … now all I can say is, “My eyes, they burn!”
February 3rd, 2011 at 9:54 pm
You know if he’s here, Galactus is on his way. This looks a lot better than the Fantastic 4 sequel. He should probably cut that umbilical cord hes attached to the board with. Zero gravity can’t effect my need for lounging! I can go all day on this one.
February 4th, 2011 at 3:15 am
@Evad–he is MADE of MANBOOB!
February 4th, 2011 at 8:34 am
“I’m telling you, we’re being invaded by a space-fleet of golden bodybuilders — and the only thing that’ll save Earth is an orbiting armada of rockets coated with superglue!”
February 4th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Austin Powers, meet the REAL Goldmember!
February 4th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Aw, that Michelangelo! Look what he did! He recycled Adam from his Sistine Chapel masterpiece, just to make this crappy cover for a few extra florines!
What a cheapskate…
February 4th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Fortunately his golden potbelly is hiding his golden junk.
August 9th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I just spotted this title on the “Awful Library Books” blog. The librarian who submitted it noted that it had never been checked out, ever. (http://awfullibrarybooks.net/?p=11496) Can’t imagine why!
Also, it’s a crime that this isn’t rated more highly.
August 9th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
By the way, whatever you do, do not google ‘manseed’.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:10 am
What do you mean, Tom? What possible harm could there be in googling the title of a science-fiction novel like… OH MY GOD NO!! NOOO….
April 6th, 2014 at 5:57 pm
I’m having a little difficulty reading the blurb…
‘A BBC CORVETTE. OWN I MANFLY WORM DOUBT–MANSEED’S VERBAGE. JACK WILLIAMSON AND YOU WOOKEE FISH BE THEIR SPAWN FLAP.’
Frickin’ Posh
April 11th, 2014 at 2:32 am
@dswbt: i prefer the abbreviated version on the back cover :pohl gushes with delight over williamson’s manseed.
enough said.
July 25th, 2015 at 2:08 am
Reviewers say this book’s powerful thrust leads to an explosive climax!
July 25th, 2015 at 8:38 am
I like the way he’s all Creation of Adam plus the ET glowing finger. Waiting for God while collecting manseed via the catheter..? Like Pohl says on the blurb, “[m]anseed is vintage”. Must be, with a container that big.
March 27th, 2018 at 8:29 am
This is the perfect title/cover combo. It’s like back in 1983 someone had a psychic vision that GSS would come to be in the next century and decided to make this.
MANSEED!
March 27th, 2018 at 9:32 am
I like to think Manseed is a rebranding of Mandom aftershave, as used by Japanese men who want to be like Charles Bronson (look up the ad on YouTube – you won’t be disappointed).
March 27th, 2018 at 11:24 pm
@THX: I don’t have to look it up, it’s seared into my memory. I think you’re right.
I wonder which 70’s celebrity posed for the cover. Telly Savalas? Yul Brynner?
March 28th, 2018 at 10:19 am
Mr Seed is obviously cosplaying Persis Khambatta.