May 26
Scot’s Art Direction: For this one we’re going dystopian agony. So, nuclear explosion! And a prison wall with people falling from it to their deaths, but get this, the wall is also a screaming face! With an eyeball being stabbed by a needle! That’s the stuff.
Published 1979
May 26th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Hey, does it hurt? Can you feel this? Or this?
May 26th, 2011 at 9:54 am
I know just how he feels… I used to watch CSI: Miami.
May 26th, 2011 at 10:29 am
Is it better with, or without?
With?
Or without?
[Only makes sense if you’ve ever had your eyes tested.]
One gets a strangely warm and fuzzy feeling when a book one owns turns up on Good Show Sir.
May 26th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Never inject fast-acting hallucinogens into your eyeball unless you have a friend standing by to take the syringe away.
May 26th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Geez, you need a cream for that rash!
May 26th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
“With ideas sifted from the farts of Pink Floyd!”
May 26th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Looks like a failed “Fantastic Voyage” one sheet.
May 26th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
The new season of “Mythbusters” looks really intense!
May 26th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Is the book any good?
May 26th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Headache. Tense, nervous headache.
May 26th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Weirdly, it’s actually not a bad representation of the key moments in the book.
May 27th, 2011 at 7:53 am
Welcome to The Face. Please enjoy your time on the mouth-cleaning crew, and be sure to fill out all the forms so that in the event of your being eaten, bitten, maimed, wedged between teeth and then flossed out, spat out into the canyon, or accidentally horked up into the nasal cavity and lost forever, your family will not be able to sue us.
May 27th, 2011 at 7:55 am
Also, don’t let the warden catch you goofing off. You really don’t want to be transferred to the other end.
May 28th, 2011 at 2:53 am
Artist suffer from chronic hay-fever/allergies much?
May 28th, 2011 at 5:17 am
It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye…
May 29th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Odd how the author’s last name is more important than the title.
May 31st, 2011 at 9:14 am
Dalton H: Maybe the publisher was aiming for that hard-to-reach clerical segment of the market.
June 24th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
After losing an eye, the doctor gave him a choice between a fake eye, an eye-patch, or a window with bars…The window with bars had this mystique to it that this fellow just couldn’t resist…I think he regrets his decision.
January 15th, 2014 at 1:52 am
The thing of it is, exactly the same thing happened to my brother in 1980.
January 15th, 2014 at 7:08 pm
“Pan Science Fiction”—exactly what one feels compelled to do after seeing covers like this.
May 24th, 2019 at 5:06 am
The Unknown Artist is Geoff Taylor. http://www.geofftaylor-artist.com/galleries/cover-art/art/indoctrinaire
May 24th, 2019 at 6:05 am
Wanna know how I got these scars?
May 24th, 2019 at 6:41 am
@M. Dalliard—Interesting to learn there that the original artwork is “lost.”
May 24th, 2019 at 1:51 pm
All in all you’re just a trippy face in the wall.
May 24th, 2019 at 1:57 pm
It’s easier to get heaven into a rich man than to get a needle into the eye of a, no, hang on…
May 24th, 2019 at 1:58 pm
Gaaaahhh, everything hurts!
May 28th, 2019 at 12:33 pm
Ripe Christ! Stop her!
“I CAN DO IT, ERRIN!”
(Also: Dirt in cornea I / Irica on Tinder / Terrini on acid)
April 16th, 2022 at 8:23 pm
….annnnd *this* is why Dali’s early career as an ophthalmologist is seldom talked about.
August 22nd, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Wow.
And there was me thinking that the cover on the NEL Edition I have to hand was bad…
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1264395115i/2208886._UY630_SR1200,630_.jpg
August 22nd, 2022 at 2:18 pm
He is being deprogrammed from the cult of people who hate spinach enough to resort to nuclear weaponry.
August 22nd, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Pan Science Fiction really seemed to have cornered the market of covers that were well-executed, detailed, professional and utterly uninteresting.
I never looked at a Pan cover and thought, “Wow, I better buy this one!” Pan is the diametric opposite of Baen for me.
August 22nd, 2022 at 9:22 pm
@Ryan: They did seem to have a variety of styles over the years. I think this one isn’t too bad: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/799811215057278054/
August 22nd, 2022 at 11:20 pm
I hate the New Wave illustrator’s cliche of being edgy by having a detached eyeball with something piercing it, in this case a syringe, which is a cliche as well. I bet Mr. Taylor took inspiration from the movie art for Clockwork Orange.
That said, everything else is a New Wave illustration cliche, too! Except having the torso of a chesty bombshell emerged from the sinuses at the top of the nose. Now that’s original!
(The falling people look more like they’re doing parkour to me…)