Sep 02
Click for full imageI had a dream last night, and well… I think we should place rows and rows of naked women looking like they are washing dishes. So if we place that on the front with a fully clothed dude walking by them all, we’re keeping every gender happy. Right?
Thanks so much to Chris R!
(Average: 8.49 out of 10)
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September 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
15p ?!?! what a rip off.
I’m not sure i even want to know the context of that pic
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
Well at least they are wearing hair nets!
Wouldn’t want things to be unhygienic!
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
They look like they’ve been ordered to spread ’em for a quick search…
Is he looking for drugs? It’s not like they’ve got anywhere to hide them.
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Almost sounds like you have experience of such things 😛
Definitely drawn for teenage boys me thinks.
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
My ex was a copper, he obviously had to practise his search technique – alot!
🙂
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 am
This one may not be the UGLIEST cover (there are lots worse) – but its surely the WEIRDEST cover in this whole collection!
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Yea it is pretty wierd. I found some strange ones in some charity shops recently too. Must of been the covers of the time or something.
And Roses.. that’s just wrong! 😛
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 pm
It’s quite remarkable how little this cover has to do with the story, as well. They needn’t even have abandoned the cheese. I’m not sure the story even *has* any men in it, and given that almost all its characters are underpeople (other than the one that’s an AI) it should surely have had at least one talking animal.
Shame, shame.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
All the best worst covers tend be either a serious misunderstanding of the book’s contents, or an attempt to cram them all onto one small cover.
Of course, the very best of the worst are both 😀
April 17th, 2013 at 8:23 pm
In the future we’ll have butt-ways instead of hallways.
May 14th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Do we have to fill in the blanks? _____ The _____ Underpeople.
As well as showing a lot of barefaced cheek, the artist has invested minimally in shadows. What light source could possibly give suited man such a shadow?
May 14th, 2013 at 11:11 am
Who in their right mind calls their kid Cordwainer?
May 14th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
@jitterbug: Nobody – this was a fiendish pseudonym to cover the fact that one of the Kennedy Administration’s chief psychologists was writing space-opera. There’s a lot more to this story, including a hotly-disputed claim that he was one of the case-studies in ‘The Fifty-Minute Hour’ http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/behindjetcouch.html
‘Smith’ himself wryly commented on what people would think of him if they knew he’d written this material, especially in the less-well-known stories. The fact that his pen-name meant ‘cobbler’ is a clue. http://cordwainer-smith.com/
May 14th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Those seem to be quite accurate Phrygian caps the women are wearing. Funniest hats in history. Not sure about the boots, though. Jimmy Choo?
October 30th, 2013 at 2:50 am
Are you sure those are women? I’m not seeing any actual female anatomical details. Just sayin’…
October 30th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Oh… my… God.
Wow.
I didn’t think it was possible to paint such a cover and get away with it.
:-O
March 18th, 2014 at 1:10 am
If we can post again, I’ll just put the sign up and be out of here again in a mo.
January 14th, 2016 at 9:20 pm
As he strode past the line of donors, the senior manager worried over the fall in quality and quantity at the mass semen extraction plant.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:00 am
They were the strange, hidden race of men who bought this book for the cover — also known as…
THE UNDERPEOPLE
January 16th, 2016 at 12:52 am
Why not rows and rows of naked men? Definitely gender challenging then…
January 18th, 2016 at 10:15 am
He should be running down the corridor with a paddle in his hand….slapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslapslap…………..:D
August 5th, 2016 at 1:37 pm
I date this to the Pretrampstampian Epoch in cover history.
August 5th, 2016 at 2:30 pm
Chuck doing a chick cheek check.
August 5th, 2016 at 3:38 pm
The Underpantlesspeople.
August 5th, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Things used to be easier or a pickpocket in a pachinko parlour…
August 5th, 2016 at 5:27 pm
Ray Kroc’s dystopian vision for assembly line fast food restaurants.
August 6th, 2016 at 12:46 am
Where sausage comes from is bad. But where turducken comes from is INFINITELY WORSE.
August 6th, 2016 at 4:22 am
Glad I checked in for Flashbackside Friday.
August 7th, 2016 at 11:04 pm
It was just good to spend a quiet weekend thinking of those Phrygian caps again.
August 12th, 2016 at 7:16 am
Cover recycled from Piers Anthony’s
PROCTO PLUS: GALACTIC PROCTOLOGIST
November 13th, 2017 at 10:19 am
Imagine him walking to this music (from GET SMART):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ObCoCm61s
November 14th, 2017 at 2:08 am
The man is softly singing to himself: “Come, they told me, a rump, rump, rump, rump.”
November 14th, 2017 at 10:59 pm
If I say this is a duff cover, it means different things in the U.K. and U.S.
November 15th, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Is this a meeting of the famous Rump Parliament?
February 5th, 2020 at 1:35 am
It’s a 21 bum salute!