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Click for full imageCourtney Comments: There are actually some pretty great stories in this collection, but the concept is just ridiculous. Plus, you know, BOOBS.
Published 1990
(Average: 7.85 out of 10)
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Courtney Comments: There are actually some pretty great stories in this collection, but the concept is just ridiculous. Plus, you know, BOOBS.
Published 1990
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March 18th, 2013 at 9:16 am
I’m no doctor but that eye looks like it’s got cataracts.
Sexy.
March 18th, 2013 at 9:55 am
@EllenDatlow Good or bad cover? RT “@GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Alien Sex http://t.co/X755AzJW55“
March 18th, 2013 at 10:15 am
So, the mouth on the bottom and the eye on the top… are those pimples? Ewww… I’d see a doctor about that!
So who’s got some good alien pick up lines?
March 18th, 2013 at 10:50 am
Are they boobs? Or those little round plasters you can get for covering a zit? And is that a supermarket crab stick beneath the lips, bottom left?
I’ve a feeling ANY cover would turn out laughable for a book called ALIEN SEX.
March 18th, 2013 at 10:51 am
Methinks we need cartoon sheep… or cartoon CS Lewis?
March 18th, 2013 at 11:02 am
Is this a ‘Clutch Cargo’ – Synchro-Vox homage cover?
March 18th, 2013 at 11:42 am
Apparently only the writers of “dark” fantasy were allowed to contribute but the science fiction writers of both dark and light varieties were welcome.
Tagmeister, this is perhaps the least “wtf” cover I’ve ever seen. Also, do we have a publisher? I won’t even bother to enquire about the cover artist, since there is no apparent art on display here.
March 18th, 2013 at 11:46 am
Bibliomancer, I believe the “wtf” tag pertains to the title.
March 18th, 2013 at 11:49 am
Bah, darned Ancient Egyptian grafitti…
March 18th, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Colleague Bibliomancer,
According to Fantastic Fiction, the publisher is Dutton, artist Paul Bacon. I quite like it. Restrained commentary on the great Jammy Dodger vs Pink Wafer debate.
March 18th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
@Bibliomancer: why were the fantasists even allowed to write stories with aliens in? Isn’t that a clearly-demarked prerogative of SF authors?
And did the band ‘Alien Sex Fiend’ have their lawyers on call?
March 18th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
Forget the ‘art’, the title alone in it’s giant font is guaranteed to give you extra space on the bus. Or not, which could actually be much worse. For a moment I thought it said ‘Allen Sex’ which would seem an even creepier idea.
March 18th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
I agree, Fear of Music, and the title is too small to make out from a distance. For all the people on the bus know it says “A How-To Manual.”
March 18th, 2013 at 8:23 pm
Taking a more serious angle: Do you realize that deep down, this cover essentially states that “Women Are Aliens”…?
Keep it classy, Datlow. Keep it classy.
March 18th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
I believe the band took its name from the comic character Alien Sex Fiend.
I don’t see breasts on this cover just an unfortunate number of oddly-placed spots.
March 18th, 2013 at 11:39 pm
If this is alien sex, I’ll being keeping it terrestrial.
March 19th, 2013 at 12:09 am
The little moonlet orbiting her pupil creeps me out.
“Tell me, do I have something in my eye?” >flutters eyelash at intended victim<
March 19th, 2013 at 12:43 am
Breasts? Man, I thought those were eyes. This whole cover is badly designed.
March 19th, 2013 at 1:09 am
I keep seeing ‘As Lo Ie Eonx’, which doesn’t mean anything.
But this does!
AXE LOONIES
EASE OX LOIN
OLEO-SEA NIX
EOLIAN E-SOX
ALOE-NOSE XI
I, AXLE NOOSE
SEA OXEN OIL
AXE LEI SOON
O, I LOSE AN EX
A EEL IS ON OX
March 19th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Alien Sex: what you won’t be getting if you’ve got pimples like these.
March 19th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Its comforting to know aliens have human eyes and lips, but what troubles me is that the rest of the alien body is all blue-grey and boring, except for those pimply-boobs, I MUST HAVE THEM!!
March 19th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Not much to see here….moving on.
September 13th, 2020 at 12:00 am
Are those boob emojis?