Feb 25
Click for full imageArt Direction: Look Moorcock’s covers are always strange. It’s like previous publishers took a handful of amphetamines before putting them to market. All we need is a big 80’s girls head floating in lots of clouds and some people on horses riding into war. No one will suspect any type of solvent abuse… well… until they read the thing!
Published 1987
(Average: 5.59 out of 10)
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February 25th, 2011 at 10:29 am
No wonder those guys are all running away, I’d be scared too.
February 25th, 2011 at 10:55 am
I think she’s saying “HAARRRYY!!!!” Better hope she hits a power line or we’re all doomed.
February 25th, 2011 at 11:45 am
The Giant Baby Cloud Head on the left is about to bite her on the cheek. Look out, Enormous Floaty Head Lady!
February 25th, 2011 at 11:46 am
THZ: “I think she’s saying “HAARRRYY!!!!—
I think she’s saying “DINSDALE!â€
February 25th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
“A Jerry Cornelius, amongst others, novel”.
Alternate blurbs:
– Some Anonymous Horseman, amongst others, novel
A Sky High Woman, amongst others, novel
A Very Confused Editor, amongst others, novel
February 25th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
They’re riding into Tommy Chong’s backyard! *cough* *cough*
February 25th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
You know when you’ve been Entropy Tangoed.
I see they spelled MOORCOCK with an infinity symbol.
Sometimes an airship is just a cigar.
February 25th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
There should be a tag for ‘floating head’. Admin?
February 25th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Subtitle of just about every Moorcock novel once he started doing Jerry Cornelius: “Dude, I Just Scored The Most AWESOME Shit!”
February 25th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Other books in the “Jerry Cornelius Amongst Others” series:
– HEAT DEATH SALSA
– DECAY LAMBADA
– LET’S ZUMBA AT THE END OF TIME
February 25th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
All the SF I’ve read, I never realized that Tango would the dance of the future. o_0
February 27th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
The Entropy Tango is a somewhat unknown dance unlike the Alien Tango, and the last is more popular by 0.35 stars. But The Entropy Tango is a much more complex number that can display experience and perfected execution.
February 27th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Re: Last Comment
Reportedly, said dance was very popular at The End Of Time, although depending on who was dancing it at the time, the results were variable…
For example, Jerek Carnelian, & Lady Christina, The Eternal Concubine were very good dancers, while Mongrove by contrast, danced said tango like he had 2 left feet (though in many instances, this was indeed literal, as he frequently attached 2 left feet to the ends of his legs…).
The most noted dancer was Lord Shark, or rather his army of automata were, as many times, he entertained (although somewhat reluctantly, one might say), guests at his infrequent parties, with a display of synchronised tangoing involving several hundred duelling automata…
February 28th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Unknown artist? I reckon its Fred Gambino. Thats his palette, those are his clouds.
April 12th, 2024 at 2:18 pm
I see one of the others is Oswald Bastable and his lighter than air phallic symbol..
April 12th, 2024 at 5:32 pm
@Green (if you’re still there): clearly you ought to have watched German 60s TV Space Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evx-1CtRlek
@everyone still here: honestly, thirteen years and nobody suggested this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqm-s6h8l1I
April 12th, 2024 at 6:36 pm
And here we see the giant floating head in its mature form, preparing to suck the hydrogen out of its natural prey, the dirigible. A cavalry platoon has taken a defensive position, threatening it with popping.
@Tat Wood: nice find! Although I’d imagine the Entropy Tango would have rather more alcohol in it.
April 13th, 2024 at 5:44 pm
“A Jerry Cornelius, amongst others, novel.”
Good to know a book has more than one character in it. Poor sod might get lonely otherwise.
April 14th, 2024 at 1:36 am
@Cornelius: “The Lord of the Rings: A Frodo, amongst others, trilogy”
April 15th, 2024 at 1:21 am
You can practically hear the artist snickering at “Moorcock” as he paints the zeppelin.
@Tat: See comment #7. Also, a German friend of mine (of a much later vintage) is amused by that show and tolerates the graybeards at cons banging on about it. Seeing as how when she was born, there had already been stars trekking, and in her early years, stars warring.
Couples dancing under a fishbowl? It’s Future Prom, with the obligatory “Enchantment Under The Sea” theme!
ISTM it would have been easier to ask the extras to do some dance known at the time, simplified, rather than make up weird dorky angular movements which probably distracted the viewers back then. Stranger than The Frug. Maybe they could have done The Swim, extending the theme.