for those playing at home, the author is one half of the team whose “lady editors” commentaries in the SFWA newsletter contributed to the meltdown of the membership…
I noticed the golden chap seems to be hidden BEHIND the typewriter’s roller. This should mean that he should emerge feet first where the actual typing takes place. The lettering will go on his heels, his calves, his arse cheeks, his back and the back of his neck. In that order.
At which point the typist will realise that they put him in upside down. He will screwed up into a ball and thrown in the bin.
Another example of Charles Moll putting a whole bunch of stuff in his images that serve no other purpose than to show off his rendering skills, such as they are. Suggested tag for all Moll covers: Mollapalooza.
Herovit? I owned it. Same book. Same cover. If I read my copy I remember absolutely nothing about this unmemorable book.
About typewriters. Harlan Ellison still uses a typewriter (and two fingers) to write his stuff. He says he has a freezer full of ink ribbons because replacements can’t be bought.
I also remember a sci-fi story (A.E. van Vogt perhaps) with teleportation, blaster guns, faster-than-light travel, where the character stopped to write a letter on a typewriter. And he needed to keep a copy so he put in a piece of carbon paper. 500 years in the future and he didn’t have the imagination to conceive of the xerox machine.
@ Bibliomancer, who knew we’d be listening to LPs (new) on turntables (new) again in the 21st century? So you shouldn’t be surprised to read the following …
Herovits? Isn’t that some sort of horrible tasting sandwich spread from Australia? Made of veggies, dingo bits, ground platypus bill, and vitamin enriched powder of Baen protagonists?
That typewriter has an eye, qnd it’s not between u and o.
That’s one damn formal typewriter. It’s eyeing its victim rather nervously, as if it’s afraid he’ll wake up and notice he’s being turned into writing paper.
A novel about hack writers, one of whom’s latched on to a made-up religion (naming no names but look at Bibliomancer’s comment (9)). As some people have suggested, getting Charles Moll to do one of his elaborate-but-misconceived covers is more appropriate than it seemed. Malzberg followed this with ‘Galaxies’, a book about the impossibility of not writing hackwork while the readership’s so far below his standards.
August 5th, 2013 at 10:40 am
Gives a whole new meaning to ‘character-driven writing’, doesn’t it?
August 5th, 2013 at 11:27 am
What is this strange device that people will write on in the future?
August 5th, 2013 at 11:40 am
That’s the fourth strangest thing to happen to Mick Jagger’s naughty bits since 1970.
August 5th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
for those playing at home, the author is one half of the team whose “lady editors” commentaries in the SFWA newsletter contributed to the meltdown of the membership…
http://www.jimchines.com/2013/06/roundup-of-some-anonymous-protesters-sfwa-bulletin-links/
August 5th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Thanks Charles – that’s a point worth making.
August 5th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
I’m guessing that’s Malzberg in the typewriter, undergoing a bit of lady editing. Ouch.
August 5th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
I noticed the golden chap seems to be hidden BEHIND the typewriter’s roller. This should mean that he should emerge feet first where the actual typing takes place. The lettering will go on his heels, his calves, his arse cheeks, his back and the back of his neck. In that order.
At which point the typist will realise that they put him in upside down. He will screwed up into a ball and thrown in the bin.
August 5th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Another example of Charles Moll putting a whole bunch of stuff in his images that serve no other purpose than to show off his rendering skills, such as they are. Suggested tag for all Moll covers: Mollapalooza.
August 5th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Herovit? I owned it. Same book. Same cover. If I read my copy I remember absolutely nothing about this unmemorable book.
About typewriters. Harlan Ellison still uses a typewriter (and two fingers) to write his stuff. He says he has a freezer full of ink ribbons because replacements can’t be bought.
I also remember a sci-fi story (A.E. van Vogt perhaps) with teleportation, blaster guns, faster-than-light travel, where the character stopped to write a letter on a typewriter. And he needed to keep a copy so he put in a piece of carbon paper. 500 years in the future and he didn’t have the imagination to conceive of the xerox machine.
August 5th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
@ Bibliomancer, who knew we’d be listening to LPs (new) on turntables (new) again in the 21st century? So you shouldn’t be surprised to read the following …
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/tapping-old-tech-typewriters-make-comeback-1C9992099
August 5th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
@ Bibliomancer = ROFL on the Von Vogt story.
August 5th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Darn it, the 3D printer’s stuck on something again!
August 5th, 2013 at 5:21 pm
Both Herovit’s World and Jaws were published in 1974. In some parallel universe SYFY is now spitting out goofy killer typewriter movies.
August 5th, 2013 at 6:13 pm
We can’s see his legs. Maybe these are novelty boxer-shorts… but that means that the eyeball poking out of the front is…
No wonder he’s looking down so anxiously.
August 5th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Herovits? Isn’t that some sort of horrible tasting sandwich spread from Australia? Made of veggies, dingo bits, ground platypus bill, and vitamin enriched powder of Baen protagonists?
That typewriter has an eye, qnd it’s not between u and o.
August 6th, 2013 at 1:45 am
This guy really puts himself in his writing.
August 6th, 2013 at 6:00 am
Smashingly important. Is that like “Whimsically tragic”? “Somewhat groundbreaking”?
August 7th, 2013 at 8:57 am
It’s typing men
Hallelujah it’s typing men
August 7th, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Many thanks to the Tag Wizard for including the “bow-tie” tag. Otherwise, I would have completely overlooked it. Smashingly important, indeed.
August 8th, 2013 at 9:15 pm
THE NAKED LUNCH 2: Electric Typewriter Boogaloo
May 13th, 2015 at 4:01 pm
I’m commenting on this cover just for the Herovit.
December 17th, 2015 at 9:47 pm
That’s one damn formal typewriter. It’s eyeing its victim rather nervously, as if it’s afraid he’ll wake up and notice he’s being turned into writing paper.
November 4th, 2016 at 1:05 pm
Looks like they just set the land speed record for a modified typewriter at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
November 4th, 2016 at 4:32 pm
A novel about hack writers, one of whom’s latched on to a made-up religion (naming no names but look at Bibliomancer’s comment (9)). As some people have suggested, getting Charles Moll to do one of his elaborate-but-misconceived covers is more appropriate than it seemed. Malzberg followed this with ‘Galaxies’, a book about the impossibility of not writing hackwork while the readership’s so far below his standards.
Maybe he should have found another job.
November 4th, 2016 at 8:22 pm
This is the cover Kafka rejected for the first edition of “In the Penal Colony.”
“Ach, too busy. Und pretentious.”
November 5th, 2016 at 12:55 am
I say it’s Keith Richards and I say the Herovit.
November 5th, 2016 at 5:37 pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah baby! Keep hitting that key!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 6th, 2016 at 6:07 am
Yay! The clocks just turned back!! Now I can look at this cover for an extra hour with no time passing.