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Click for full imageJanet’s Art Direction: Okay, fine, you’re an “artist”… you can paint your own cover.
Published 1991
(Average: 7.49 out of 10)
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Janet’s Art Direction: Okay, fine, you’re an “artist”… you can paint your own cover.
Published 1991
(Average: 7.49 out of 10)Loading...
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January 6th, 2012 at 11:47 am
Gah! It’s sort of … Henri Rousseau meets a souvenir plate of Arizona meets Zaphod Beeblebrox.
January 6th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
That makes me think of Bill and Ted!
January 6th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Chicks dig guys with two heads. He’s also rocking a book, so the girls know he’s the sensitive type, and a loin cloth, the better to show off his manly thicket of chest hair.
WATCH OUT LADIES.
January 6th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Looking at the author’s website, this cover isn’t by her – her sketches are much more convincing, really rather good in fact, and her style entirely different. The ISFDB says the artist is Gerald Luxton.
The other books in the series have a different cover artist – I wonder why . . .
January 6th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
And today’s word is “dicephalous”. Meaning possessing two heads, not meaning possessing legs too short, missus.
January 6th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Looks like the moon has been colonized by Percival Lowells’ Martians. And which direction is the light supposed to be coming from? The shading looks impossible.
January 6th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Watch out, Moonfall! Put on your hard hats!
Is that a syringe sticking into the back of the thigh of old two-face? That could explain his sedate-ness.
January 7th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Something about the layout makes “Heather Spears” look like “Heathers Pears”.
January 8th, 2012 at 10:59 am
Here, in a nutshell, is the Catch-22 of SF publishing:
The books must contain the most amazing visions and settings… but if you show them on the cover, the slightest misjudgment will make said visions and settings seem pathetic.
January 10th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Ah, good old Moonfall! Lead-singer (pictured): Mark E. Moonsmith.
January 18th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
It looks like one dude coming out of another, like he’s shedding skin or something…
February 29th, 2012 at 3:19 am
Little known fact: the Sea of Tranquility was once filled with Mountain Dew.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
You know, he looks less to me like a guy with two heads then a guy doing a double-take.
“The moon’s doing WHAT?”
June 10th, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Is her butt pregnant?
July 23rd, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Loved this song.
“Let the Moon Fall!
As it crumbles
I will stand tall
My boyfriend has two heads”
July 24th, 2015 at 11:03 am
That moon is falling!
November 2nd, 2018 at 12:23 pm
“Hey that’s funny. On the cover of my book I’ve only got one head, and she has two bums.”
November 2nd, 2018 at 1:41 pm
Have no fear, Martin Landau is on the moon and will do something about this.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:50 pm
Hey! This guy’s a fakIr.
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:04 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Cheeky comment. So that makes three moons on the cover.
November 2nd, 2018 at 5:40 pm
@Raoul: Well, you know me—always making with the cracks. So I guess the title should be Moonfull.
November 2nd, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Ray Milland and Rosey Grier never had this problem.
November 2nd, 2018 at 6:00 pm
The next Star Wars movie…The Deathstar comes and blows up another desert-type planet.
November 2nd, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Well, six years on and it sadly is RIP Mark E. Moonsmith… 🙁
November 2nd, 2018 at 11:18 pm
Zaphod looks pretty damn calm for someone who’s about to be wiped out when the Moon Falls. Is he/they doing the “cool guys don’t look at explosions” thing to impress the girl? Depending on how long it takes to fall, that might not matter. If it’s happening quick, go ahead and stare at it, dude.
@THX: Like Ray and Rosie, this guy appears to be of two different races. Or at least half of him never gets a suntan.
@fred: If Landau’s in charge, the moon will go in the opposite direction. Wonder if the sequel was titled “Moon Exit”.
@Tag: Does she deserve the Sir Mix tag?
June 29th, 2024 at 1:23 pm
Moon-*fail!*
Yes I came up with that all by myself 🤪
I am amazed no one did it before me.
June 29th, 2024 at 6:37 pm
I don’t hold out much hope for this relationship: she wanted to go watch the Moonfall and he’s so unable to pretend interest that he brought along a book.
(They’ll probably be fine: that’s got to be a pretty small Moon, given that it appears to be in _front_ of the clouds. Maybe it’s only a paper moon.)
June 30th, 2024 at 1:23 am
@JJ: Good job! 12 years in and no one got that before.
@Bruce: I agree. She’s grabbing his shoulder like “See?” and he’s turned his back to the moon and whatever’s happening with/on it. One head’s brought a book, and the other’s gazing out… over a cardboard desert?
Perhaps this is all merely a stage play and the sky/city/pink fields/cloned trees are only painted on the backdrop, with said paper moon being operated from the catwalks. The head in front obviously isn’t off-script yet and will be getting a stern talking-to from the director.
Heather S. Pears probably deserved better.