Jun 15
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Piccol78’s Art Direction: So there’s Rama in the title than you got to play it mystical; no wait; better! Indian stuff goes well with Psychedelia so make it more Grateful Death, a bit hypnotic but with monsters and some Random Escher stuff. Uh, Uh! Don’t forget to put in a Flying Vagina!
Published 1973 (maybe)
June 15th, 2012 at 9:34 am
Oh, how I miss Irwin Allen’s THE TIME TUNNEL (http://sharetv.org/images/the_time_tunnel-show.jpg)
And Alexei Sayle’s DRUNK IN TIME, for that matter (https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCrrxtza7bdBr8-Bmzyk5LGtdJUdKHu3HnQIXAtW0tXGetPzz6)
June 15th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Why does the Italian RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA have an appendix featuring B.C.?
June 15th, 2012 at 10:07 am
The Wizard of Id, too! I think this book cover needs retuning.
June 15th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
TECHNICALLY
Rendezvous with Rama DOES involve exploring the inside a of a huge, cylindrical ship with strange structures on the inside and robot bugs. I don’t remember a squiggly things or space vaginas, though.
June 15th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
@Phil:
URANIA is a long–running Italian science-fiction magazine which publishes complete novels. Of course, no magazine is complete without episodes of B.C. and The Wizard of Id…
June 15th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Also, I wonder if the art is by Karel Thole, who did great work in those days, much of it for Urania. If so, this is decidedly not one of his most inspired.
June 15th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Wow. 350 lire is like $0.23 today.
June 15th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Ha! The first thing I thought of when I looked at it was “that looks like girly parts.” How nice that I am not the only one who noticed…I was afraid there might be something wrong with me! 🙂
June 18th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Apparently the editors were into Ironic Juxtaposition.
“In this issue: Philip K. Dick’s THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH — plus Calvin & Hobbes!”
August 12th, 2015 at 12:03 am
“Frank Herbert’s DUNE is sci-fi’s Magnum Opus – also with Bill the Cat”
August 12th, 2015 at 12:51 am
@Perry Armstrong: Not that unusual when you remember that great chapter when Paul Atreides runs over Lionel Richie with a tank.