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Click for full imageTom Noir Comments: … and radioactive!
Published 1978
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Published 1978
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August 27th, 2013 at 10:37 am
“Gotta get this lightbulb above my head instead of inside it and my idea will be free!”
Wait a minute – is being the author of “The Cosmic Rape” something to shout about?
August 27th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Actually, Sturgeon is spinning in his grave. You can tell by the radiation.
August 27th, 2013 at 1:07 pm
That’s an awfully long title, “STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL … THEODORE STURGEON author of The Cosmic Rape.” Not surprising that they had to keep making the typeface smaller and smaller in order to fit it all on the cover, or that there was no room left over for the writer’s name. Anyone have an idea what the writer’s name is?
August 27th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
The classic phantasmagoria of… wait, what? Are his followers flowers? Or does he just happen to be a human grow light? Is this the sequel to ‘Hemingway is Dead and Rotting’? This is of course no doubt the 1978 winner of TUBOMFAFANAF. Pity I missed it. Or perhaps not.
August 27th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Ted Sturgeon. Author and night light.
August 27th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
I like how they titled it “Sturgeon is alive and well…” and then came up with creepiest possible illustration of the author.
SOLD!
August 27th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
He’s obviously outstanding in his field.
August 27th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
@Tom Noir: whoever this is, it ain’t the author. In which case, writing in the middle of a field full of dandelions while dressed as the Best Man at a wedding in 1972 with a luminous David Janssen mask is just eccentric. And what’s with his hands?
August 27th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
@ Tat Wood, the typewriter that ate Herovit is eating Sturgeon’s fingers now. Yeah, everything about this cover says he’s alive, but really, doesn’t look so well.
August 27th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
“Radioactive zombie author writes best seller while having his fingers consumed by a demonic typewriter.” = genius marketing!
“Author of the cosmic rape.” – not so much with the great marketing…
What is with the endless rolling weedy hills?
August 27th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
A thought struck Sturgeon…in the posterior cranium…at about 0.99 c…
August 28th, 2013 at 1:21 am
Me: “Doc, something’s wring with my Sturgeon!”
Veterinarian: “No, your Sturgeon is Alive and Well.”
Me: “Its glowing.”
Vet: “That’s the glow of good health.”
Me: “I didn’t think that was literal.”
Vet: “Well, according to my manual a Sturgeon should be glowing between 1500 and 20,000 lumens….if you caught it downstream of the nuclear plant.”
August 28th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
The success of Peter Frampton’s “Frampton Comes Alive” LP spawned a number of similarly named copycat records.
August 28th, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Maybe the title lost a comma and a few words: “Sturgeon Is Alive And, Well… Positively Glowing”
October 8th, 2013 at 8:05 pm
He can type so fast that his head lights up!
October 8th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
@A-S: no, it’s just like that Operation game. Instead of his nose lighting when you touch the sides, Sturgeon’s head lights when he types the wrong letter. Also, it’s easier to see the typos with direct light. 🙂
February 12th, 2014 at 1:07 pm
So, it would seem God has not deserted us. He has been writing bad science-fiction on his ancient typewriter this whole time.
He is not at all what I imagined he would look like.
I am also surprised to learn that he has been hiding in Pepper Land, a place I once believed to be fictional.
I am no longer sure of my beliefs. This has shaken me to very core.
March 27th, 2017 at 8:43 pm
…and turned into Peter O’Toole?
December 25th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
The secret origin of the Church of Subgenius.