Dec 17
Frank Comments: Good thing that fern was handy, else the publisher would have had to get really blatant with that maple leaf. All the electronic equipment out among the foliage is worrisome too. I’ve seen what happens when that sort of thing is left in a damp environment and it’s not good for continued operation.
Published 1972
December 17th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Are Adam and Eve about to be crushed by the falling brain, Monty Python descending foot style?
December 17th, 2012 at 11:07 am
“in the manner of”?
As for the handy fern, well, that butterfly might have been even worse than any maple leaf…
December 17th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Ah, the seventies: when men were men, women were women, and giant brains were giant brains.
December 17th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
“The one place you choose to make love… and it has to be full of giant animals, computers and a floating brain! Shesssh.”
December 17th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
“In the manner of 2001 and Andromeda Strain — just as interminably slow, self-important and sterile!”
December 17th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
‘Well, we told two different artists that they could design the cover. What should we do now?’
December 17th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
In the future, your home stereo system will be artfully concealed behind flower-butterfly-nude-brain wallpaper.
December 17th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
That is a palm, not a fern. Where her five daughters are, I don’t know
December 17th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
I’m glad to see brains are still a turn on for some girls.
December 18th, 2012 at 1:10 am
Fifty shades of grey matter…intellectual sado-masochism. Just say the safe word if your brain begins to hurt from all the potential scenarios we can think of..
December 18th, 2012 at 1:52 am
From Wikipaedia:
‘World War III has devastated most of the world, but life is still good for the lucky (and rich) few hundred persons who had their brains preserved in an automated conservatory. Although they have no bodies to move around with, they are free to mentally visit any of the other residents, and engage in all the emotional, intellectual and (pseudo-) sexual congress that they desire.’
The cover makes more sense, though I”m not sure I’d read it in public.
December 18th, 2012 at 8:44 am
I read it in private. I suppose I don’t have much shame, I’m admitting that here.
“In the manner of” would seem to mean “story that could be made into a script”. I got that feeling from it.
December 20th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Wind slowly baby…
May 30th, 2014 at 9:48 am
Looks like the book’s owner had a few stickers lying around, so they stuck them semi-randomly onto the cover. Let’s see: a brain… that can go here; butterfly…here; …
June 16th, 2015 at 7:01 pm
The original inspiration for James Cameron’s “Avatar”.
June 17th, 2015 at 7:57 am
I love the little maple leaf with the text “Published in Canada”.
How would that work in other countries…?
MEXICO: A sombrero riddled with bullet-holes and the text “Publidad y Mexico.”
SWEDEN: A Volvo and the text “Publicerad i Sverige, Ja!”
RUSSIA: A black bear growling the words in Cyrillic.
June 17th, 2015 at 12:29 pm
@AR:
IRELAND: A shamrock fighting itself, and the English text overlain on the Gaelic.
USA: An eagle in silhouette, and the text ‘COUPON INSIDE.’
DPRK: A perfectly nice tiger and ‘이 책은 한국에서 출판되었다.’. But the rest of the cover is actually falling off the book inside of the shrink wrap.
November 24th, 2015 at 8:28 pm
“So, E.L., you have a new novel for us?”
“That’s right, and oh my, did my inner goddess strike gold this time! You’re gonna love this!”
“Shoot.”
“The entire plot of FIFTY SHADES, retold from the point-of-view of Christian Grey!”
“Err… um… but why?”
“What?? Isn’t that obvious? Because GREY MATTERS!”