May 14
Click for full imageBibliomancer’s Art Direction: Its called More Than Human so paint a kid, replace the legs with a reel-to-reel tape deck, and pad the shoulders with a couple of kids heads. Its so obvious!
Published 1975
(Average: 8.80 out of 10)
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May 14th, 2013 at 11:23 am
This must be what happens when Harlie is six or seven (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/03/when-harlie-was-one/ )
Also related to Huey, Dewey, and Louie, methinks (http://www.jeffbots.com/silentrunning.jpg )
May 14th, 2013 at 11:27 am
On a serious note, MORE THAN HUMAN doesn’t feature any computers or electronics that I recall. It’s about a gestalt intelligence of (biological) beings.
May 14th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
@phil: and as I recall it, they all had legs. Maybe this cover was for ‘Limbo 90’ once upon a time.
May 14th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Sturgeon’s Law mk II: 95% of this cover is crap!
May 14th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Looks less than human to me.
May 14th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
“But I want ice-cream!!!!! WHAAAA…. oh and the shoulders want cookies!! And the stomach want’s a curly wurly!”
May 14th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
@Phil – Perhaps this is an older Harlie. Later in life he ran afoul of the law:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/05/the-venetian-court/
(All three Ballantine book covers, btw)
May 14th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
‘The Droogs-The Early Years.’
May 14th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
‘Over 500,000 copies in print’ Sold any though? Or are they all in boxes filling up a warehouse in Battersea? Also, which ‘International Fantasy Award’ did it win? The Ulan Bator Outer Mongolian International Fantasy Award for authors named for fish?
May 14th, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Ouch! It looks like his hands got caught in his own tape reels.
May 14th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
“I warned you this would happen if you went to the avant garde photographer for the school portraits! That’s not going on the mantelpiece!”
May 14th, 2013 at 5:07 pm
@FoM: I’ll have you know that’s me pride and joy!
May 14th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
1. The kid on his left shoulder looks like a tiny Julius Caesar.
2. Those are the ugliest hands I have ever seen rendered graphically—is there some a plot aspect to them? Anything to account for them?
3. The artist appears to have signed on the left forearm. The signature, though, like the rest of the cover, is indecipherable.
May 14th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Kid looks like he could knock off a couple of hundred push-ups and not break a sweat.
May 14th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
@Bibliomancer: ran foul of the law… and had his arms and heads removed.
@B. Chiclitz: no plot significance to the hands that I recall. Maybe the artist faithfully rendered his own deformed hands. And by the way, the signature is perfectly deciepherable…if you know in advance that the artist is called Rosenblatt.
@FearofMusic: THE International Fantasy Award. A short-lived honour from the ’50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fantasy_Award
May 14th, 2013 at 7:47 pm
@Phil: Thanks for the clarification. Hmm, not often an award can make your work appear outdated.
@FSWBT: Congrats on being the recipient of TUBOMIFAFANFF. A feat you should rightly be proud of.
May 14th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
@Phil—thanks. By damme, it does indeed say “Rosenblatt,” if you know it already.
May 14th, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Gestalt intelligence appears to come with more than one sun, as well. Head face and tummy face are lit from slightly above. Left shoulder face is lit from the far left. Right shoulder face is lit from dead front. No wonder gestalt boy’s eyes are bloodshot.
May 15th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Is there a pull-cord behind him? If so, when pulled, do the other faces talk?
May 16th, 2013 at 6:47 am
I Have No Legs And I Must Walk To The Bathroom
May 16th, 2013 at 6:47 am
A very young Bill Gates has a vision of the first home computing system.
June 19th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Suddenly this whole “Transhuman”/”Posthuman” thing doesn’t seem so cool.
August 10th, 2015 at 9:49 pm
‘Hello, Mr. and Mrs. McCann? The good news is that we’ve found your daughter’s remains. The bad news is that News Corp got there first.’
December 23rd, 2015 at 6:19 pm
LESS THAN COMPATIBLE
December 23rd, 2015 at 11:56 pm
With the Beatles….in primary school.
February 19th, 2021 at 1:32 pm
Stop persecuting poor Theodore and his publishers lack of good cover sense, you awful, awful website. The poor man has suffered enough at your hands.
Yrs trly,
The Theodore Sturgeon Defense League Action Committee
February 19th, 2021 at 4:03 pm
If David Lynch had directed ‘Return of the Jedi’ as planned, would R2D2 have looked like this?
February 19th, 2021 at 4:46 pm
How to get thumbs, wrong twice, in different ways – a UAI exclusive tutorial, coming soon to Youtube.
February 19th, 2021 at 5:00 pm
If two heads are better than one, surely four heads (plus a magnetic tape drive computer) are even better!
February 19th, 2021 at 6:17 pm
I hate to say it but all the kids look like “special cases.”
February 19th, 2021 at 11:12 pm
The effect too much remote schooling had on children of the early 21st century.
February 20th, 2021 at 12:07 am
@Tracy: the artist was presumably aiming for “creepy” rather than “disabled”, but may have missed the mark.
February 20th, 2021 at 3:23 am
Fingers or starfish, tough to tell.
If this is what it takes to become more than human, I’m staying merely human.
February 20th, 2021 at 4:57 am
Their powers combine to summon an extremely retro computer, like an even lamer Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
February 20th, 2021 at 9:12 pm
More than human. Less than comprehensible.