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Joachim Comments: The future fashion item of choice — yellow plastic latex gloves… A better title would be “The Janitorial Triplets: an odyssey from childhood to adulthood”.
Published 1978
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Joachim Comments: The future fashion item of choice — yellow plastic latex gloves… A better title would be “The Janitorial Triplets: an odyssey from childhood to adulthood”.
Published 1978
May 23rd, 2013 at 9:59 am
OK, who photocopied the baby?
May 23rd, 2013 at 10:22 am
This is exactly the right cover for a 1979 electronica single, possibly on Mute records, or at a pinch Rough Trade.
(In fact, it’s possibly more appropriate for the single than this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB_lGmoww6w )
Not really a good look for a novel, though.
May 23rd, 2013 at 10:44 am
“The answers to the present”… The question of course being “How do you avoid wrinkled fingers when bathing three babies of wildly varying size?”
May 23rd, 2013 at 11:00 am
Completely Irrelevant Scientific Fact: that’s not a space chart, that’s a bubble chamber, probably for measuring the particles released when three babies collide.
May 23rd, 2013 at 11:02 am
At birth, the triplets varied in size. By age 27, they were identical in every respect, even down to their jumpsuits and Marigolds.
May 23rd, 2013 at 11:09 am
How right you are Jaouad, good knowledge!
May 23rd, 2013 at 12:04 pm
q: Are we not men?
a: We are babies.
We’re through with our drool, eliminate the ninnies and the twits..
This is what it’s like when babies collide! Are you ready for it, cause I’m ready for it..
babies….non-stop……babies…non-stop, electro-pop..
I try to grab it but the baby is hot, the mirror collapses but the image does not
(and for Anti-sceptic) A-round the world, a-round the wor-uld.
May 23rd, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Despite a severely limited budget, fans of The Fall of Hyperion go ahead with their reenactment of the scene from the 1991 cover art.
May 23rd, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Nelson Doubleday don’t need no fancy art department with expensive artists and paints. People aren’t buying any of these books for their attractive covers. All of the copies were purchased by people too embarrassed to admit they forgot to mail back the Science Fiction Book Club selection-of-the-month card.
@Tag Wizard – It’s Richard MEREDITH
May 23rd, 2013 at 1:01 pm
And the artist is Margo Herr.
May 23rd, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Thanks Tom (and thanks Margo)!
May 23rd, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Thanks Biblio – both GSS Admin and myself are a bit more preoccupied than usual today
May 23rd, 2013 at 2:49 pm
“They crossed the timelines of the future to find the answers to the present.”
Has to be the most uninspiring cover blurb ever written. You see this on a bookstand and can only respond, like, “Yeah, whatever.” Pity the poor blurb writer. Doesn’t even get the giant bazooms to help hold the reader’s eye in place.
May 23rd, 2013 at 2:55 pm
@B.Chiclitz – Blurb phoned in along with the cover art. But of course you would never see this new on the bookstand. See me at #9.
May 23rd, 2013 at 3:41 pm
— my hilarious triplets with plastic latex gloves cover submission on Good Day Sir! http://t.co/OTrxX2zg4r
May 23rd, 2013 at 4:25 pm
@ SFRuminations, part of your dolls and mannequins series?
May 23rd, 2013 at 4:26 pm
@tom — no, I just found it randomly like the other 25 (probably an exaggeration) or so I’ve submitted here — hehe
May 24th, 2013 at 5:13 am
It looks like the album art for the world’s crappiest Devo cover-band.
May 27th, 2013 at 6:32 pm
If anyone can write a suitable parody of “Whip It” here, feel free to try. I’ll pass…
May 27th, 2013 at 10:44 pm
In the vestiges of time…YOU MUST WHIP IT!
If there’s lots of little lines…YOU MUST WHIP IT!
When the babies float cloud nine…YOU MUST WHIP IT!
May 28th, 2013 at 7:25 am
“They crossed the timelines of the future to find the answers to the present”
The blurb is awful, but it makes a wonderful round of Chinese Whispers — try it with your friends:
“Psst! They crossed the timelines of the future to find the answers to the present…â€
“Psst! They crossed the times and lives of the future to find the anus of the present…â€
“Hey psst! The lacrosse time of my life of the future to find a heinous present…â€
May 28th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
@A.R. Yngve—great game!
Lacrossed timelines of the future find the heinous anus of the present.
May 28th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Psst! Back-crossed timelines of the fur chore find the hen anus of the President. Pass it on!
May 29th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
You read my mind @FearOfMusic 🙂
Ah….the classics!
December 14th, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Three by three, hands of… yellow…
December 14th, 2015 at 8:15 pm
No no, three by three, hands of PEE.
You’re welcome!
December 15th, 2015 at 11:52 am
@Tom Noir: Thank you. It’s not very scary, though, if they’re just there to change diapers.