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Frank Comments: I’ll bet there were Others ready to help grab those!
Published 1979
(Average: 6.95 out of 10)
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June 11th, 2012 at 9:32 am
Thanks! That tie looks so nice on Lewis!
June 11th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Good to see C.S. being put to good use, and I congratulate you on the tie illusion. Genius!
“What he sought lay beyond human reach – but there were others ready to help him…” It doesn’t look THAT far out of reach; he just needs to step forward a little. And is a horse really going to be much help?
There’s almost a TING! going on there. Almost.
An OVERTURE by David Gerrold? Who knew he wrote musical scores as well as tribble scripts?
Tag correction: it’s Diane DUANE (not duNane).
June 11th, 2012 at 10:52 am
You can see right up groping hunk’s frock.
Surely, in the name of humanity, that should also be Lewis’d?
June 11th, 2012 at 10:55 am
That font used to be on a candy wrapper. Until it rethought its life and put all that behind it.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
@Smith: Is that a hunk with a foreshortening problem, or is that Malcolm Dixon with pectorals?
What kind of a name is THC DOOP, INTD ARL anyway?
June 11th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Answered my own question today. THC DOOP, INTD ARL is an anagram for:
DOLPHIN TORT CAD
HORN ADDICT PLOT
PILCHARD DON TOT
CHORDAL DOT PINT
CHARD DOLT POINT
RANCID DOTH PLOT
IT DOTH LAND CROP
POND DITTO LARCH
LATCH TORPID DON
CATNIP DOTH LORD
DROP HOLD INTACT
CAN’T HOLD TRIPOD
ACTOR, ODD PLINTH
HARD TOP COLD TIN
TIDAL NOTCH DROP
ADOPT TORN CHILD
TOAD CORD PLINTH
ODD PLIANT TORCH
And finally,
DITCH PROTON LAD
Maybe that’s the guy in the lower right corner! Proton Lad!
June 11th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
The fellow in the lower right is a dead ringer for porn star Evan Stone.
June 11th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
The suggestive placement of the sword. The ominous and euphemistic name “The Door Into Fire.” This is clearly a safe sex cautionary tale aimed at the male fantasy crowd. The protagonist striving, reaching for the seemingly unattainable — unaware of associated risks. And can there be any doubt the flaming horse represents venereal disease?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
To me (ever since I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC), a horse is just a centaur with a horse’s head.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Thanks for saying all the things I’ve thought myself, and more. 🙂 — D.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
How many fantasy covers has that Cosmic Cape appeared in?
June 11th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
“When I said put the horse out, I meant put the horse out!”
June 12th, 2012 at 2:34 am
@Dead Stuff: Malcolm Dixon? Crikey that is obscure! I’d have gone with Kenny Baker or Warwick Davis but Malcolm Dixon is just ubergeeky! Good Show, Sir!
June 12th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
This is another one of those really-good-books-with-a-really-atrocious-cover.
I think it was her first novel. It was nominated twice for a Campbell Award for best new writer of SF (I think I had better throw in some disclosure and say that makes me fond of it because the same thing happened to my husband’s first novel).
July 17th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Jazz hands!
February 1st, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Ridley Scott later stole this idea for his original Alien movie!
In an effort to avoid copyright infringment, he replaced the disembodied head of Patrick Stewart bursting forth from naked blue chick with a baby xenomorph and Siegfriend and his flaming horse with a space crew.
January 5th, 2017 at 1:40 am
This predates the “author in comments” tag, I guess.
Note that when left to her own devices, the author put a completely non-lurid cover on it:
http://ebooksdirect.co/collections/our-inventory/products/the-door-into-fire
April 4th, 2017 at 10:39 am
Editor to Artist: “Nope — not suggestive enough for our knuckle-brained audience. They won’t get the hint. Please add trains entering tunnels, factory pistons going back and forth, a phallic rocket launch, rose petals, and whatnot.”
Artist: “You’re gonna have to make the cover bigger to squeeze in all that.”
Editor: “All right… let’s go with this image then.”
August 14th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
C.S. Lewis! What a lovely tie you have on! Everybody’s reaching for it, so you can tell it’s quality!
August 29th, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Blog review. There are many other possibilities for more interesting covers.
https://superstardrifter.com/2019/10/04/spfbo-review-the-door-into-fire-by-diane-duane/
The ’85 cover. Here be lurider.
https://www.biblio.com/book/door-fire-diane-duane/d/1371380027?aid=frg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6pfBkcTs-QIV0siUCR3TDAWXEAQYAyABEgIeW_D_BwE
August 29th, 2022 at 6:44 pm
At what point did the fluffy sheep replace C. S. Lewis? I was really confused.
August 29th, 2022 at 7:55 pm
@Rags (16): that’s ‘Life Force’ by Tobe Hooper, except that bit was in a helicopter.
I don’t remember Freddie Starr being in it, though.
August 29th, 2022 at 9:16 pm
The Magic of the Blue Flame is annoyed at Cloak Dude for anthropomorphizing _and_ objectifying it. “Not cool, bro!” says the magical flaming pony.
August 29th, 2022 at 10:46 pm
@Tracy: It was before my time. I like Space Sheep better.
August 30th, 2022 at 7:43 am
Space Sheep is the best! Even though s/he looks goofy in a tie.