Sep 09
I have no idea about the cover, we’ve had our best team on it for some time. Hold on.. what are you eating there? Meatballs? Man, what about putting some meatballs creatures emerging from some sort of alien pasta, with legs and horns!! That’s awesome! And here *squelch* we could also have spaghetti with coloured lights. Sorry, some got in your eye there…
Thanks so much to Chris R!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I have to admit.. they don’t draw them like they used to.
Don’t even want to think what Freud would come up for this.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:20 am
So, it looks like the mighty Baen now own the rights to this classic (of course). However, it looks like as well as repackaging it with other books by Keith Laumer, they have also made it available online for free! CHECK OUT THE EPIC TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION HEROISM HERE
September 9th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Wow… prologue by The Webber too!
Think you have found what I will be reading tonight haha
June 28th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
WOW I just noticed this one. It’s… well it’s hard to know even where to begin with the weird-alien-hunchback-tentacle-periscope thing! So let’s not. I’d like to know what’s going on to the left and right of it. Are those things connected to it, or are they some sort of beetle, or are they supposed to be what this monstrosity looks like in profile?
December 14th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Larry King?
October 10th, 2013 at 3:17 am
I hope this thing isn’t one of Mr. Laumer’s readers. Good luck nailing THAT to a chair so it will be forced to read ‘Future Imperfect’
October 11th, 2013 at 6:38 am
Imagine the artist, sitting in his or her studio, late at night, consciousness systematically deranged, realizing slowly that it makes absolutely no difference what goes on this cover. Nobody cares, the meager freelance fee won’t be jeopardized, no editor will bother to look at it, it just doesn’t matter: just deliver a cover, any cover, a narwhal upon the vestry, nobody cares. Freudian moment indeed. . . .
Thank bog there’s GSS to show at last a proper sense of appreciation! 🙂
October 11th, 2013 at 8:44 am
But suppose the artist was really, sincerely, trying to depict something that’s in the text of the book. (After all, this is skiffy.)
Then arrives the inevitable Catch-22 of all SF publishing:
1. Depict faithfully the most eye-catching scenes of the book, thereby drawing in the hardcore SF fans who are into that sort of stuff…
2… and you alienate everyone else (including a few SF fans as well).
October 11th, 2013 at 9:41 pm
Looks like Mr….whatever…there, is just lonely and wants to give you a Big Kiss….
October 12th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Bow down and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
October 13th, 2013 at 12:54 am
Is that another one o’ them in rear view at back left? Goodness, I wonder if this cover needs the Sir Mix-a-Lot tag as well.
October 13th, 2013 at 7:48 am
Duly mixed, Mr Stuff!
January 20th, 2015 at 5:03 am
That hair piece is fooling no one.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:51 am
. . . has it got a pacifier in its mouth?