Mar 05
Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: Face off between the Man with the X-ray eyes and the Invisible Woman, I like what I DON’T see!
Published 1964
Published 1964
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March 5th, 2013 at 9:40 am
That poor woman should get herself some tattoos. Or some dental fillings.
March 5th, 2013 at 10:19 am
Grylocke the Cyborg never talked about the night he stumbled on his… invisible trap… Rosco…
March 5th, 2013 at 11:01 am
“I hate to break it to ya, lady, but if ya wear all that we can pretty much still see ya.”
March 5th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Ace Double, eh? What’s the b-side?
March 5th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
The B-side is for “boring” (or “boom” goes the rocket ship). “The Lunar Eye” by Robert Moore Williams:
http://nthdegree.us/pix/The_Lunar_Eye.jpg
March 5th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
@Deadstuff: http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/F-series/F-261.JPG This is the middle of a trilogy by Delany, who had to finish his paper-round and do his homework before writing a stand-alone novel the following week. The other two volumes got similarly rough handling http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/F-series/F-199.jpg by Jack Gaughan those two times, instead of getting Emshed. Delany later mischieviously dedicated his wilfully un-illustratable ‘The Einstein Intersection’ to Gaughan ‘for what is without’. The other dedicatee is the guy who lopped 1/3 out of each book in that trilogy.
March 5th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
Oops! This is the other one http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/F-series/F-173a.jpg the answer to the quetion on the cover is ‘yes’, and the B-side here was one of James White’s ‘Sector General’ books.
March 5th, 2013 at 1:19 pm
This sounds like the setup for a bad sitcom:
HE’s a cyborg with a wandering eye*. SHE’s an invisible diva with a flair for the dramatic. When they move into 21B, will the TOWERS OF TORON ever be the same?!?
*literally!
March 5th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
The Emperor’s New Wife served to distract attention from the *other* elephant in the room.
March 5th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Yesterday floating in the air,
I met a woman who wasn’t there,
She wasn’t there again today,
I wish her clothes would go away.
“Look,” he says, “I know it’s crazy, I know it’ll never work out. I mean, I am an incredibly unattractive cybernetic organism and you are an invisible woman with a penchant for dressing like Zsa Zsa Gabor…but can’t we give it a shot?”
“No. No.” she replied,”And who is this John Connor you keep asking me about?”
March 5th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Find out what happens next week on “Towers of Toron”,a Tom Noir production, brought to you by Google, because at Google we KNOW what you like.
March 5th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Still, that was back when it was still possible TO depict on the cover the actual content of a Delany novel … if you know what I mean and I think you do.
March 5th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Frankly, given all that is going on with this cover, the stars on the cape is an evil touch of genius.
March 5th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Unknown artist, you say? Look at the guy’s jawbone, and you will see inscribed there “Emsh”. It’s by Ed Emschwiller. Genius artist. This is one of those good-bad covers: beautifully executed, but totally crackers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Emshwiller
March 5th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
I cannot help myself; I see the title ‘THE TOWERS OF TORON’, and I find myself singing the opening to the Pink Panther theme. ‘Toron toron … toron … toron toron toron …’
March 5th, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Does this dress make me look fat?
March 5th, 2013 at 10:05 pm
@Anti-Sceptic: yes, it does. Now, do you have a comment on today’s cover?
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March 7th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Good one @Phil. I should have known better and used quotes 😛
By the invisible woman’s pose it also looks like she’s saying “Honey, that was my invisibility cream, not hair tonic!”
March 8th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
I always suspected Peter Garrett was a robot. No human could dance like that.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd1IMmsOc6g
March 9th, 2013 at 5:26 am
1. Maybe there’s a shadowy blot meant to represent the ring finger, but it really looks as though she has only four fingers on her right hand.
2. Would this image be better, or worse, in whatever sense you use the words, if his eyes were actually popping out of his head? Certainly remove any doubts about the focal point of the gaze. . . .
March 17th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
“The Mowers of Moron”… But the cover is so Dali-esque, give it some credit…
June 10th, 2015 at 1:20 pm
Hey buddy, her eyes are up… well, actually, I don’t know where her eyes are.
June 11th, 2015 at 12:15 pm
@Georgios: “The Dowers of Doron”.
November 7th, 2015 at 3:05 am
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
June 1st, 2023 at 3:19 pm
@DSWBT: The opening lines from Jane Austen’s little known novel, *Injury and Invisibility*. GSS!
June 1st, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Any excuse to avoid drawing her feet…
June 2nd, 2023 at 12:37 pm
I also first thought the title was *The Towers of Toronto* but those are pretty extreme fashions for the Mink Mile.
June 2nd, 2023 at 3:27 pm
She couldn’t understand why Playboy rejected her application to pose nude.