Feb 18
Click for full imageChristal Comments: This is what happens when you let your artist take Acid and then read Lewis Carroll.
Published 1969
Ending the week with more… romantic… literature!
Many thanks to Christal!
(Average: 7.09 out of 10)
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(9.26 out of 10)
February 18th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Wow. Just — wow.
February 18th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Transports me back…Crystal Tipps & Alistair…Magpie…The Goodies…
Lucky that beach towel blew across the woman’s body, otherwise it may have necessary to deploy the modesty sheep.
February 18th, 2011 at 10:49 am
So this is what a migraine looks like.
February 18th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I’m sorry but that is a fantastic cover. Except for the smoke cat.
February 18th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
A good week for improbable animals perching on the shoulder’s of women.
February 18th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Adult fantasy…. published in 1969…. hehehehe 69 dude!
February 18th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Despite the contributions of Lin Carter, Poul Anderson and L. Sprague–three authors I admire deeply–I can’t help but feel that the quotes on the back are rather backhanded compliments. Maybe it’s their milquetoast endorsements. “Civilised rather than heroic” and “every casual piece of conversation” don’t…
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…does Kitty have horns?
February 18th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
AND IN HEAVEN’S NAME, WHY IS THAT WOMAN’S ARM IN A CORKSCREW?
I think I need a whisky.
February 18th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Hey man, that cover is far out! Groovy! What a trip! (etc.)
February 18th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
It shows its age, for sure, but I kind of like this cover.
February 19th, 2011 at 5:35 am
Somewhere in the distance, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is play
February 19th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I bought this book. I think I must have been about two or three.
March 10th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I would buy this in a second just for the cover. Wow.
April 14th, 2012 at 2:49 am
Egad. It’s like the stuff on the walls of the commune that lived downstairs from my grandpa.
May 16th, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Forty years ahead of its time, the cover anticipates bacon as apparel.
July 28th, 2015 at 10:31 am
So, does The Blue Star Fletcher Pratt beat Star King Jack Vance?
July 28th, 2015 at 11:08 am
No, Star *King* Jack Vance obviously beats The Blue Star Fletcher Pratt *and* Starfinder Robert F. Young. I mean… duh!
April 7th, 2017 at 4:05 am
This is a good cover, except the typeface is really hurting it.
June 27th, 2018 at 3:43 am
I just noticed that there’s no artist named. ISFDB gives it as Ron Walotsky, and I think that’s his signature just at the crest of the hill at lower right.
June 27th, 2018 at 8:44 pm
@L-L: A quick Image Search indeed turns this up as one of his, titled “Gate of Faces”. Well-spotted!
Looks like another in the endless series of “repurposed psychedelic art randomly put on SF covers”.