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Frank Comments: My reaction was “It’s a trap!” In the interest of repeating the experiment, today I showed this book to another volunteer in our organization and asked her “Male or female?” She got different answers for different sides of the neck line too. I think she found this somewhat distressing.
Published 1971
August 8th, 2012 at 9:38 am
It’s a terrible cover even without your transphobia to go with it.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Whatever, she’s FABULOUS.
Also, talk about your strategically placed ferns.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
My first thought was “Cher”.
August 8th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
The body says woman. The face says Leonard Nimoy.
August 8th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
The problem isn’t the sex of the face’s owner so much as that the woman has a headless body and someone else is looking over her right shoulder to see where her bonce has gone. The head went so fast it left the green wig in mid-air, to fall on her bodiless chum’s head at a peculiar angle. Or maybe his head arrived out of nowhere and knocked hers flying, in a sort of shop-dummy marbles game. And what’s with her luminous shoe?
August 8th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
@CBrachyrhynchos. My thought exactly. A missing sketch from the Sonny & Cher Show, maybe?
August 8th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Dana International? No, Dana Intergalactic!
August 8th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
That poor N in starsongs is going to be crushed into an I.
August 8th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
@Jami that was good. Gave me quite a chuckle.
August 8th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Moonferns? Shouldn’t those be behind her? err him?
August 9th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Looks kind of like a paintover from before the era of Photoshop. I wish I could find a better photo; that would tell one way or another.
August 9th, 2012 at 6:39 am
Also, you would do better to speculate about how many pieces this cover-dweller was patched together from, rather than her sex or gender.
August 10th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Does blue foliage grow FROM her crotch? Kinda heavy on the symbolism, or what?
August 25th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Agreed, Lilacsigil, Tat Wood & J.O.A.T.! I’d be happy about having a trans/ intersexed person on the cover (Very Silverberg). But the cover is just terrible. I can’t tell if it’s strategically placed foliage, part of the being, or just a close and personal friend.
In any case, I love Silverberg, so I will hunt it down & read it anyway.
February 4th, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Butter Face!!
August 25th, 2015 at 2:52 am
Maybe a drag queen in a green wig? Could be, for all I know.
August 4th, 2017 at 11:27 am
The Ting! just below the chin almost makes it look like someone’s cut in a priest’s face and collar…admittedly, that doesn’t explain the eye shadow.
August 4th, 2017 at 12:06 pm
Hey, look, it’s Hogar, before xe got into body-building and Viking cosplay.
August 4th, 2017 at 12:26 pm
In an alternative universe Nimoy was called on to do the fan dance scene from Star Trek V.
August 4th, 2017 at 1:17 pm
I think we’ve found the perfect blind date for Sos the Rope.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sos_the_rope.JPG
August 4th, 2017 at 4:15 pm
Post updated with enhanced cover image. Nice shoes.
August 4th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
I think the artist is using the fern to cover up that fact that the right leg has serious anatomy issues. Either that or the fern is hiding some cool attribute, like a mech-warrior leg with a tank tread for a foot.
August 4th, 2017 at 4:54 pm
Is that you Ann Coulter? The shadows are hiding your Adam’s Apple.
August 4th, 2017 at 4:56 pm
Tonight on Between Two Ferns . . .
On second thought you don’t want to see this.
August 4th, 2017 at 6:11 pm
Anyone else notice that her left foot is morphing into an uncomfortable high-heeled shoe?
August 4th, 2017 at 6:58 pm
Without presuming genders, gender roles or lifestyle choices, I’m pretty sure this person is a ho bag.
August 4th, 2017 at 8:07 pm
@dswbt26 which is not necessarily a bad thing
August 5th, 2017 at 12:53 am
@JP: just sayin’.
August 6th, 2017 at 8:23 am
@Anna T: maybe the flower thingy is now starting to grow up xir other leg. The “shoe” is the same color and sort of the same shape.
Don’t stand still too long, cover ho bag! You’ll get stuck there in one place, trapped by the vines!