Mar 10
Click for full imageArt Direction: A giant circular brain, with eyes I might add, in some sort of… drill vice! There’s no way it could look like a giant eyed cookie or strange bondage moon face. Right?
Published 1979
(Average: 8.77 out of 10)
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March 10th, 2011 at 9:51 am
Roger Hargreaves encountered difficulties when he tried to branch-out his ‘Mr Men’ stories into the adult market.
March 10th, 2011 at 9:55 am
I, for one, welcome our new porridge overlords.
March 10th, 2011 at 9:57 am
George Melies must be turning in his grave (http://electricityandlust.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/george-melies.jpg)
…along with the presumably late Groff Conklin.
March 10th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Oh my. This was an excellent anthology. I remember reading and rereading it. I read a lot of anthologies around then, however, and they’ve all turned into one great amorphous collection in my memory, so I’m not sure what was in it now. It included “Unit,” I’m fairly sure, but I’m vague beyond that. I think it was novellas rather than short stories.
The thing about the ‘seventies in particular was that publishers would routinely put bizarre covers on their SFF and, because everybody did it, it wasn’t a big deal. I did think at the time that it was fair enough that the brain sphere looked so surprised under the circumstances.
March 10th, 2011 at 11:28 am
So.. depiction of a future fascist government forcing your brain to be, like the man?
OR… the actual brain of all sci-fi writers…
March 10th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
JLH:
This is a good opportunity to flag up the excellent Contento Index to SF Anthologies. Here’s the entry for this book, but the whole site is worth exploring if it helps resolves that “great amorphous collection” in your mind!
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t27.htm#A608
March 10th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
With that screw going through his brain, I don’t think it’s possible he has even one more tomorrow.
March 10th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
DESTROY THE CORE
March 10th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
[in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice]
“Screew yuuu Braain!!”
March 10th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Wait! That isn’t a brain! Its a deformed unicorn!
March 10th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Looks like Heston Blumenthal has gone too far this time! “It comes in this special holder and you eat it with this special drill…”
March 11th, 2011 at 11:23 am
THEY SAVED PETER KING’S BRAIN
(And Regretted It)
March 11th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
OK, sorry, I apologize for my previous comment — of course Peter King (R) has no brain.
March 12th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I thought it was a sentient crumpet at first glance….hmmm.. that would be a good name for a band…
March 31st, 2013 at 8:39 pm
-( 8>)
June 3rd, 2016 at 9:54 am
Where’s John Agar wielding an axe when you need him?
June 3rd, 2016 at 11:14 am
Trying to read the blurb…
‘Five oily satyrs flo the vortex gun of spit and liver’
June 3rd, 2016 at 12:08 pm
The Empire’s cunning camouflage for their new Death Star.
June 3rd, 2016 at 12:51 pm
The more I stare at it the more I’m convinced that Mr Coverbrain is one of those images made up entirely of naked women. I can’t quite place the nipples yet but better put space on standby.
June 3rd, 2016 at 1:51 pm
The OOglies episode that got the show cancelled.
June 3rd, 2016 at 2:15 pm
@Francis, Tat: perhaps this is from the ‘Rubber’s Got Talent’ sketch.
June 3rd, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Really, I am so tired of these “man bun” top-knot hairdo things.
June 3rd, 2016 at 5:59 pm
The “cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie” vibes are strong with this cover.
June 4th, 2016 at 3:06 am
While one might make arguments about nothing being impossible except contradiction…I really hope meeting this brain disk is not one of the possible things that I might encounter tomorrow.
June 4th, 2016 at 5:30 pm
This is why you mustn’t swallow chewing-gum.
June 6th, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Pizza Face!
September 26th, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Not 100% certain, but that wild cover illustration is by the late English artist John Holmes (not the porn actor). Holmes created many bizarre images during his professional career. His most prolific decade was the 1970s, where his works were published on everything from H.P. Lovecraft novels to rock albums like Uriah Heep.
December 12th, 2021 at 7:26 pm
Now we know what a zombie’s nightmare looks like.
December 13th, 2021 at 4:21 am
“When you gaze into the brain, the brain also stares back at you with WTF are there eyeballs inside the brain for?!”
December 13th, 2021 at 4:33 pm
“Most futuristic brain-entities get to comfortably float inside a jar in a bath of nutrient fluid, but I just get jammed on top of a drill vice. I’m justifiably upset.”