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Clairepie Comments: There is a blue boobed lady on the front, that’s how you know it’s good Sci Fi!
Published 1977
(Average: 6.37 out of 10)
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Clairepie Comments: There is a blue boobed lady on the front, that’s how you know it’s good Sci Fi!
Published 1977
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July 31st, 2012 at 9:17 am
Is this the female equivalent of blue balls?
July 31st, 2012 at 12:53 pm
So is she dead? Or just really cold?
Either way that kid looks very unhappy about the whole situation.
July 31st, 2012 at 2:09 pm
The Queen of Hands Like Shovels and Janet Jackson Super Bowl Tributes.
July 31st, 2012 at 2:22 pm
That baby was what caught my attention (that and the space sheep). Very creepy stare.
July 31st, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Why does the baby look more realistic than the woman? I’m not even referring to the whole blue skin thing. Maybe it’s because the woman doesn’t have a forehead?
July 31st, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Sure it isn’t The Queen of Hair and Darkness?
July 31st, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Where’s CS Lewis? Bring back Lewis!
July 31st, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Apparently this was the artist’s audition for the Book of British Birds: he wanted to show he could do a bluetit.
I’ll get me coat…
July 31st, 2012 at 11:26 pm
I’m surprised no one said anything about Avatar….I guess that was SO..like…three years ago.
August 1st, 2012 at 11:16 am
@Sneaky Burrito: I think the baby looks more real and three-dimensional because the shadows and contrast are deeper. It’s ok on the blue lady’s hands but bad on her face, making it look flat.
I only notice this because it’s something I’m bad at in my own art…
August 1st, 2012 at 11:20 am
@Don. Shakes head.
August 1st, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Black-eyed baby is single-craniumedly carrying the weight of those jugs. No wonder it has Teh Evil Stare.
August 2nd, 2012 at 4:58 am
Story is something about settlers on an alien world with no life and a baby of theirs goes missing, causing them to suspect there might be life after all, ~woo-ooo-oooo!~ That has totally never been done before!
I guess the blue lady with the stars is supposed to represent the possible alien presence that takes human babies for No Good Reason (Especially since, as having evolved in two distant star systems, they probably can’t even eat them).
August 2nd, 2012 at 7:25 am
@Jerk of all Trades. I’ve read this, and it’s actually better than you think. (As I recall, anyway.)
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Careful, or the baby will drop into space, or rather out to space….err I mean down to space….oh forget it, don’t drop the baby!
August 13th, 2012 at 11:11 am
I didn’t realise Poul Anderson was a sci-fi writer in addition to being the acclaimed director of Mognolia and Thore Will Be Blood.
August 23rd, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Adding Dolly to the cover improves the art, somehow.
July 28th, 2015 at 12:01 pm
@Don: on a cover like this one, better a blue tit than a nuthatch.
Why does her medallion read ‘PLC’? Can you buy shares of this lady on the open market? If so, it might explain why so much of her has been snapped up.
July 28th, 2015 at 1:24 pm
@Dead Stuff. In my last comment it seems I forgot to confirm that yes, #13 is an accurate plot synopsis. I mean, how could it not be?
July 28th, 2015 at 3:14 pm
What accounts for the lady’s expression?
1. Being blue in the first place
2. Having a nipple exposed to the harsh conditions of deep space
3. Wearing a metal collar that must chafe, when you think of it
4. Left (her left) earring seems to have gotten dislodged and is now sticking into her forehead—quite painful I’ll bet
5. The kid just did a doo-doo
6. All of the above
July 29th, 2015 at 10:24 am
@B. Chiclitz: I think #3 accounts for #1.
August 27th, 2015 at 1:04 am
What’s wrong with Blue Alien Woman is that her arms are out of proportion. That’s what’s wrong. They look like they belong to someone else.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:49 pm
A HARNESSED KID, QUEER NONFAT
January 4th, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Wait a minute — Poul Anderson is an award-winning novella??