Aug 02
Click for full imageKelly Comments: Considering that later editions have an absolutely gorgeous cover by Michael Whelan, I’m always a bit horrified to see the travesty on my own copy of the book. It looks like a poster for some kind of low-budget 70s bondage. My poor eyes!
Muttley Comments: Did you see a mouse? I’m sure there’s a mouse in here. Gonna blow that mouse away . . .
Published 1981
Thanks to Kelly and Muttley who both sent this in!
(Average: 8.29 out of 10)
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August 2nd, 2011 at 9:07 am
Holy buttocks, Batman! That’s one hell of a bubble butt.
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:39 am
Even if this cover is bringing up the rear, it’ll still hit a bum note and be the butt of jokes. I could get to the bottom of this, but I can’t be arsed.
August 2nd, 2011 at 1:05 pm
“Sometimes I wonder, why do we even wear clothes at all.”
August 2nd, 2011 at 2:47 pm
She’s looking for her contact lens, just to confirm that Captain Bacofoil’s crotch-bulge really is that embarrassingly small.
And she’s come prepared to make a day of it, judging by the kebab strapped to her leg.
August 2nd, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Just another night at the Swedish bondage club!
I do wonder what the wires on that guy’s wrists plug into, and whether that suspended contraption the woman is seated in is in fact a fetish-themed baby mobile.
August 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 pm
I can’t help but feel that the fact that no one has their eyes open says all that needs to be said.
August 2nd, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I had no idea that Sir Mix-a-Lot once worked as an art director.
August 2nd, 2011 at 7:09 pm
The good ole string cuff. I haven’t seen THAT in a while.
August 2nd, 2011 at 8:53 pm
All glory to the Hypnobutt!
August 3rd, 2011 at 8:54 am
The guard appears to have his eyes open. He’s looking out the corner of his eyes at the queen, resenting her for forcing him to wear such embarrassing clothes — how the hell is he supposed to protect anybody running around in nothing but his tight tighty foilies, male fetish boots, a stainless-steel dickie, bondage bracelets, and an art student’s interpretation of the retard helmet.
August 3rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Gluteal Show Sir.
August 9th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
If Mistress Badonkadonk and the Snowqueen can’t get a rise out of him, I think He’s kinda sorta Gay
August 10th, 2011 at 11:08 am
The same artist also made a similar butt-wielding cover for THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. It looked really weird with the Russian brothers mooning the reader…
August 18th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Butt-Woman: Well you see sir, the reason your wife’s hover-car is not working properly is because the oil hasn’t been changed in months. The oil indicator is on showing that the oil is very low.
Man: Honey, did you not see the light?
Wife: Ummm….I thought that the indicator light would change to a different colour to tell me that I should now change the oil…
September 14th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
You have to admit, the girl really does have a great ass.
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:57 pm
LOL!! I had no idea that this cover existed. I love Joan Vinge’s books and own both the old and new cover additions but this…. is horrible!
The artist must have gotten some bad information about the story or probably never read it. Thank goodness for Michael Whelan.
September 29th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
I was a fan of the original cover by Leo & Diane Dillon, myself.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zSMH6b5dlrg/S9kRvibSUDI/AAAAAAAAAOE/diAlrkCZIX4/s1600/1980+dial+press.jpg
Michael Whelan’s is lovely, too.
June 19th, 2013 at 2:17 am
‘I love a girl with a gun in her hand and a party on her mind.’
If you know where that comes from, please tell me! It’s stuck in my head and I can’t remember where it came from. I HATE THAT!!
June 19th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Now, let’s give this cover a second chance. It expresses so much.
Like for instance, BLEARRRGH, UUURGHH and YEEEECHH.
June 19th, 2013 at 11:40 am
‘Is she still in the bubble bath?’
February 12th, 2014 at 2:20 am
If you are going to trash the artist get the correct artist before trashing him or her, this cover was not painted by Michael Whelan the signature on the cover tells me it was painted by Peter Jones, that said it’s kind of funny to see some of our worst covers being trashed especially my own, Paul Youll proud to be represented here with a few crappy covers of his own!
May 29th, 2014 at 10:32 pm
Is this the book ‘Frozen’ is based on?
June 1st, 2014 at 9:46 pm
Is it truly true? Can we post again?
June 3rd, 2014 at 2:35 pm
Her marvellous bottom is in direct contrast with his sad little slug.
August 12th, 2016 at 12:57 pm
This girl sure gets around.
August 12th, 2016 at 1:06 pm
Lady Gaga videos become the founding texts of a future civilization.
August 12th, 2016 at 1:37 pm
I notice the absence of snow on the cover.
August 12th, 2016 at 1:57 pm
@DSWBT – Yeah, but we get three queens!
August 12th, 2016 at 2:16 pm
A different kind of snow.
August 12th, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Snowoueen must be a future version of Halloween only kinkier.
August 12th, 2016 at 3:13 pm
I got this edition when it came out and found the cover slightly less embarrassing than the contents. Now I look at it again and wonder: are the lumps on the edge of the magenta trapezeoid thing pine-cones used as a decorative fringe on a rug or people milling about at the edge of a piazza? Or maybe they’re shrubs at the edge of an oddly-coloured lawn.
If the horizontal lines are equidistant it’s a rug, in which case the Queen must be really hard up if she can’t get a new one with all the pommels/ tassles/ whatever intact..
August 12th, 2016 at 3:55 pm
It adds pleasure when one learns that the woman protagonist’s name is Moon.
August 12th, 2016 at 3:56 pm
“I’m just going to stand here like a statue until you let me wear the red spiked heel space boots. They go so much better with my outfit than yours!”
August 12th, 2016 at 4:58 pm
This cover deserves to be embiggened and wrap-arounded.
August 12th, 2016 at 8:14 pm
@B’Mancer—wrap arounded link ne marche. More’s the pity. Embiggened link provides quite an eyeful, and explains Glutonia’s line-of-sight more clearly. Thanks.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:04 am
“Bow down and twerk before the Snow Queen!”
December 14th, 2023 at 10:38 pm
Man, that’s some shiny red floor there.
Either that, or he’s wearing those drywall/painter stilts.