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Click for full imageAdam Comments: We have everything you could want with this cover. Giant space-squids, intense aborigonies, rocket ships and WWI German soldiers. Everything, that is, except a clock.
Published 1972
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June 15th, 2011 at 8:51 am
Yeah, but clocks are sooo linear time.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:09 am
No clock, eh? That’s the sequel you’re thinking of: THE BIG TIMEPIECE.
When this edition was published, they HAD to put a giant squid on the cover, otherwise people would have expected this to be about an Esther Rantzen TV series featuring Sheena Easton. (Yes, I AM showing my age!)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Time_%28TV_series%29]
June 15th, 2011 at 9:09 am
Nice hat! Love the octopus look you’ve got going on there.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:11 am
PS: I can’t quite figure out whether that guy is wearing a spacehelmet or a crocheted shawl. And what IS he doing with his gloved hand?
June 15th, 2011 at 9:48 am
A change war being the kind of war that is set off when you go to break a twenty and all they have are ones.
June 15th, 2011 at 9:57 am
@Phil: They might not have put Sheena on the cover, but they did put Fanny Craddock on there, scowling away. This whole cover screams “What is a bramble?”
June 15th, 2011 at 10:09 am
“Change War”? Are they fighting over petty amounts of money?
June 15th, 2011 at 11:11 am
“Famous saga of the blurb copy war that devastated the language!”
June 15th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Someone get that Colorform off of my book cover!
June 15th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
So they fought a war over re-useable cloth diapers vs disposable Pampers? (guy with symbolic cloth headgear)?
Or tv remotes vs having to get up and do it at the tv? (gloved hand w/apparatus)?
Or the attempt to remove yellow from traffic lights? (colored circles)
Or stopping politicians from using a favorite campaign theme? (snake)
June 15th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Everyone likes a good tentacle caress….
June 16th, 2011 at 12:32 am
Never realised the Thompson Twins fought for the Kaiser first time around.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
If you look into a mirror and chant “BAD BOOK COVERS” three times, this cover will pop out and attempt to kill you.
June 15th, 2014 at 10:33 pm
‘Famous saga of the Change War that devastated the Universe!’. Given that a Change War is one where they go back in time and prevent their opponents from happening, I’d like to know how you can have one that doesn’t devatastate the universe. Unless they have really insignificant antagonists, such as Sheena Easton or Fanny Cradock, it’s going to cause a dent in history. Why else would you bother with temporal-anomaly combat in the first place? And if you win, do you remember having fought? If not, how can it be a ‘famous’ saga?
In fact, as victory is a literal non-event, how can there be a saga of any kind?