Jan 27
Click for full imageRachel J’s Art Direction: All right, this cover practically designs itself. Think “teleportation”, “futuristic detectives” and “shapeshifting alien saboteurs hiding out on the Moon”. I’ll leave the details up to you…
Published 1966
(Average: 6.83 out of 10)
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:29 am
The phrase “Will this do?” must have cropped up during the design of this one. There are bathroom books showing more dedication to the craft.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:31 am
The last thing that a crook sees before The Phantom punches him in the face with his skull-ring.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Mo-om! Dad took the clay sculpture I made in kindergarten and used it for a book cover!
January 27th, 2012 at 10:33 am
Alternate title:
TWO of The Colors of Darkness
January 27th, 2012 at 11:08 am
In case you were wondering: no, the… whatever that thing on the cover is… does not appear in the book in any shape or form.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Terrible meaningless title. Slightly amusing name “Biggle”.
Cover art which looks like a melted margarine tub with a child’s drawing of a robot on it.
It’s just perfect!
January 27th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
It looks like they photographed a child’s toy (and not a fun one) through an ice cube.
If you’re going to have abstract art on the cover it should actually relate to the book’s content. As a distant second-best it should be unremarkable and meaningless. It should not look like something utterly unrelated having an entirely different conversation.
January 27th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
The proud father and almost famous sci-fi cover artist looked on in horror as his 5 year old held up the artwork… realizing he must have submitted her artwork for that latest book by Lloyd Biggle Jr b mistake and somehow here she was showing off his art in show-and-tell…
Artist fades into oblivion. Daughter becomes famous.
January 27th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Which Doctor Who/Cybermen Xmas special is that from?
January 27th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
it looks like anyone who’s ever seen this book in person has punched it. just got angry at the meaninglessness of the cover and punched it as hard as s/he could.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
My God…it’s Goatse’s playgroup snapshot!
January 27th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Sort for looks like it should be embossed. That’s about all that could save it. Someone paid four whole shillings for that!
January 28th, 2012 at 1:27 am
Which Doctor Who/Cybermen Xmas special is that from?
The one with the robots made out of margarine tubs.
January 28th, 2012 at 2:04 am
Not surprisingly, the iSlime never made it past the prototype stage.
January 28th, 2012 at 11:50 am
See, this cover shows why self-“published” writers can’t possibly meet the high professional standards of established publishing conglomerates.
January 29th, 2012 at 4:26 am
It looks as if the design was carved from a Halls Mentho-Lyptus cough drop.
February 1st, 2012 at 8:09 pm
This cover makes me very angry!