Feb 25
Click for full imageFrank Comments: I think the cover art is meant to convey that there are three different stories within, but then there is… Font Problem at Infinity!
Published 1963
(Average: 4.36 out of 10)
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Frank Comments: I think the cover art is meant to convey that there are three different stories within, but then there is… Font Problem at Infinity!
Published 1963
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February 25th, 2013 at 9:38 am
three times dead eight?
February 25th, 2013 at 9:58 am
“Hey – did you cancel the cleaning woman while we were away?”
February 25th, 2013 at 10:13 am
I like to think they are giants walking through tiny mountains!
February 25th, 2013 at 11:12 am
∞∞∞
Easy!
February 25th, 2013 at 11:13 am
Now if you turn the book clockwise by ninety degrees… you get some boobies, which really should be sheeped.
February 25th, 2013 at 12:08 pm
3 times slightly-unequal-sized Boobies! I’m with Phil: where’s the Sheep of Decency when you need him?
February 25th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Needs a blurb.
–STORIES OF CAKES LEFT OUT IN THE RAIN
–THE GREATEST EVER ADVENTURE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
–ADVENTURES ON THE REAL NUMBER LINE, THE IMAGINARY NUMBER LINE…AND BEYOND!
–TECHNICALLY, FOUR X INFINITY, BUT LEIGH BRACKETT JUST DOESN’T HAVE THE PULL, SORRY LOVE
February 25th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
🙁 Powers is the best sci-fi illustrator of all time — this one included. Cover art isn’t aways about representing what is in the book — that’s a more modern phenomenon. This is a masterpiece…. You are sadly mistaken.
Here’s the listing for this cover — so it doesn’t have to be artist unknown. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?189121
February 25th, 2013 at 3:29 pm
And the artist isn’t responsible for the text.
February 25th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Must be sci-fi, it’s got a math-y title. Which is greater, 3xinfinity, or 6xH, where the variable equals absolute lameness in choice of title.
Seriously, you write an entire book, then go blank on the title? Seems to happen an awful lot…
February 25th, 2013 at 7:25 pm
I bet the ‘three times infinity’ was slapped on at the last second so as not to confuse reviewers as to the title. But there are 4 authors. Do Bradbury and Brackett split infi/nity?
February 25th, 2013 at 7:37 pm
@Phil, if you are even more creative you can see the X representing the nether region, while the infinity symbol representing…..well, um, well….you know, a bulging balloon that was squeezed in the middle making it’s way towards that X….
Man, I gotta get out more!
February 25th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
3 times infinity is equal to infinity so the other two infinity stories can be ignored. This book is way more a math problem rather than a font problem. And the cover illustration by Powers is kind of cool.
Why was this cover posted again? Have we run out of truly stupid covers?
February 25th, 2013 at 10:18 pm
@Bibliomancer — don’t worry — I just submitted a juicy one in protest to this gorgeous Power gem — hehehe….
February 26th, 2013 at 8:56 am
I shot this months ago. That you’re seeing it now probably means Our Good Host is raiding his slush pile. If you think you can submit something better suited, perhaps you should.
I was seeing a lot of the Font Problem tag and when I saw this while setting up for our monthly book sale I thought it was a decent example of the sort of Font Problem you could end up with in the bad old days when this sort of thing was done with type cases and stencils. “They didn’t really…” I thought, then I picked it up and looked closer and decided that yes, they did turn an 8 on its side.
Didn’t realize it was a Powers painting. He’s not credited and looking again I don’t think his signature appears on the cover. I did and do like that it is a three-layer portrait for a collection of three stories. And I’ve seen enough of what goes on to know that he probably didn’t commit the abusive typography seen atop his painting.
Four authors, three stories. Bradbury and Brackett co-wrote “Lorelei of the Red Mist”.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:43 am
I’m disappointed that the publisher didn’t have faith in the SF audience.
“3x∞? No one will understand that.”
“Should we subtitle it?”
“Definitely.”
February 26th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Didn’t see the Powers tag, but yes, I quite like the painting. But hell, any attempt at transfinite arithmetic on a book cover deserves a mention here.
Speaking of submitting, the server at goodshowsir.co.uk appears to think that my gmail account is a spam account, so everything I send gets returned as delivery failure…
February 26th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
@Jaouad, maybe it’s not your Gmail account – maybe the covers you’ve tried to send are just so awful that even GoodShowSir can’t accept them!
February 27th, 2013 at 10:11 am
@Joauad – Sorry! We’re having a good few problems with email at the moment. I’ll look into why you have been spamlisted!
February 27th, 2013 at 11:15 am
@Phil – Oops, I’d always assumed that covers too awful even for GSS must be just right for GSS.
@GSS Admin – Thanks!
March 2nd, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Did you know that infinity times three is still infinity?
So if you’ve got THREE copies of this book, you’ve also got just ONE copy….
:-S
August 25th, 2015 at 1:14 am
3 x Infinity Equals: REALITY BREAKAGE.
November 27th, 2015 at 12:37 pm
The answer is 2ナ.