Sep 09
Huge naked man flying through a vast landscape while an English businessman on a flying circle points out his mistakes with a cane. Have his manhood really impressive and big, you know like the type that make women faint… oh yeah, guess we can’t. Well, draw it anyway and cover it up with a star about that award he got. They’ll never know…
Thanks so much to Chris R!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Oh I do love that the point at the bottom of the star seems to be just that little bit bigger than the rest! 😉
September 9th, 2009 at 11:02 am
So I looked up the Riverworld Series of books that this is part of, and it got made into a 2003 movie, “Riverworld“! It actually stars the late Kevin Smith, not of Clerks fame, but the one who played Ares in Hercules and Xena before his untimely death. From the trailers and clips it does have a certain Hercules / Xena tone to it. Maybe they used the same sets?
There’s another one out soon, this year or next, also called Riverworld, and is supposedly a four hour epic!
If only there was a sister site, Good TV Show Sir, about Sci-Fi / Fantasy TV movie adaptions of epic, epic novels that can only fall short when they finally make it onto the screen… 😉
September 9th, 2009 at 11:05 am
You are right about the star…golly.
Is it just me or do the perspectives not make any sense in this. The man on the circle’s cane appears to be pointing infront of the falling naked man dispite the fact the the circle man looks like he is some way behind the naked man…or the naked man is really big and much futher away then he looks and the circle man is infact terribly small…but even then it looks wrong…arrrghhh…my brain…
September 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
RE: JustinLeego
…could we do it for DVD covers and/or film posters maybe?
September 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Ohhh interesting idea!
But would our minds be able to handle the madness?
September 10th, 2009 at 9:34 am
i can see a lot of pound shop DVDs featuring…the fung fu ones are always genius though I guess they might not count as strictly fantasy or SF.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thats pretty disturbing cover. I woulldnt want to bump into him in a dark alley.
I’d love to read the scene that describes that cover. what surreal set of circumstances allows that to happen? I’m intrigued
September 10th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Why read… when we can watch!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310952/
September 10th, 2009 at 10:24 am
You’d have thought the Fagin look-a-like would be a little more impressed by huge flying naked man.
Shame naked dude doesn’t like flying.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Look what else I found!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/philip-jos-farmers-riverworld
September 10th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Theres few things worse than a poor TV adaption of a series you love. All your friends who you wanted to read the books will now just watch the crappy TV adaptation of it and judge it thusly… I was disapointed by the Dresden Files series, have heard bad things about the Tv adaptation of Sword of Truth series (awful covers).
On another note one of my favourite fantasy books from a few years back is being made into a series by HBO series which might be okay http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/ the only reason i think it could work is because a) there is little magic in the book and b) its HBO
I dread the day they try to make The Wheel of Time into a TV series.
Justin, the philip Jose game doesnt look TOO bad for a 1998 game, looks pretty complex.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:13 am
True, true. Too bad for the Riverworld game that it came out the same year as Baldur’s Gate, Diablo, Fallout 2, Heroes of Might & Magic 2, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Starcraft… couple of years earlier though and it would’ve had more of a chance.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Ah you’re making me nostalgic. The weeks i would waste playing through the story of Fallout and baldur’s gate. They dont make em like they used to
September 11th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Weeks you would waste? Don’t you mean months?
I know some men who meet up every week to LAN party starcraft on their laptops.
I have yet to join them…seriously…. I never enjoyed it that much. 🙂
April 20th, 2010 at 4:18 am
Looks like this scattered body’s going its own way…
April 30th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Great series and concept. World of Tiers is quite good too. I am submitting the 1980 Panther release if anyone wants to see it. It actually depicts a scene in the book so I’m not sure if it breaks the rules.
I’m going to have to check out the riverworld game now. Thanks for the tip JustinLeego.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
There is a version without the Hugo splash – yeah, it ain’t just the head that’s bald…..
October 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
God dang, they always put the sign where I don’t want it . . .
December 19th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
There’s no mistake in the cover design:
The climax of the story features a floating naked giant whose genitals are filled with letters… then the resurrected P.T.Barnum pokes at the giant’s *ahem* “engorged” privates — and BANG! out comes a bunch of letters which just happen to form the mystical message
“Winner of the Hugo Award for the year’s best SF novel”.
It’s all very metafictional — especially since the book later DID win the Hugo.
January 27th, 2013 at 7:53 pm
AAAH!
OK, OK, I’m going. I’m hurrying, in fact!
January 28th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Is it the foreshortening, or is it really a man with a pig’s hindquarters?
October 25th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
I’d suggest we have a tag for ‘strategically placed Hugo Award’ but I suppose it would link only to this book.
Although maybe that wouldn’t be a bad thing?!?
July 18th, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s newest bridge was not well received.
July 21st, 2014 at 3:01 pm
I wonder how many people have been admitted to casualty with a strategically placed Hugo Award…
August 6th, 2015 at 12:46 pm
A prescient cover. As of 2015, the Hugo Awards are indeed entirely about dicks.
August 8th, 2015 at 2:14 pm
To Your Naked Body Goes Philip José Farmer?
May 12th, 2017 at 12:26 pm
The show with everything except Yul Brynner… that’s Yul leaving to watch in the auditorium now. Except that the auditorium is in the show too. As are all his belongings, including clothes. So where will he sit? And what will he breathe if all the oxygen is in the show too? Isn’t this an over-elaborate production, and a nightmare to organise? All for Yul? What’s he done to deserve this? What if he doesn’t like it and the show with everything would have been better with him in it? WHY?
May 12th, 2017 at 12:33 pm
I wonder what Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton would have to say about this cover, assuming that is Burton with the cane.
No mention of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons so far. Disappointing.
May 12th, 2017 at 1:57 pm
“Ok big fella, you’re right in place. Now—put out that forest fire!”
May 12th, 2017 at 1:59 pm
BC’s comment brought to you by Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
May 12th, 2017 at 2:09 pm
@BC – You’re the whiz!
May 12th, 2017 at 2:14 pm
Artist update. Unknown artist no longer: isfdb.org has him as Patrick Woodroffe.
BONUS: UNSHURIKEN COVER VERSION!!! [NSFW]
May 12th, 2017 at 2:28 pm
@TW – Unshuriken, but not unshrunken.
May 12th, 2017 at 4:09 pm
In his unembarrassed state, lacking even a shuriken, we can plainly see that he has forgotten that key element of bungee-jumping, the bungee.
Not a mistake you make twice.
May 12th, 2017 at 7:43 pm
It was the twelfth of May, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out writin’ sci-fi, and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y’all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister took off all of his clothes, stuck a suicide note over his man-parts and jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
May 13th, 2017 at 12:41 am
Ah, Patrick Woodroffe, a fave here at GSS.
That shuriken was ridiculously over-sized, wasn’t it?
I’m thinking Isambard Kingdom Brunel is normal-size, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloon is giant. But a huge bald naked man wouldn’t make it into the parade, so Brunel had to design bridges and ships (The balloon was considered for a Pride Parade, but rejected for lack of endowment).
This was only the second-oddest appearance of Brunel in a televised entertainment; the first was, of course, the 2012 Olympics. (Which also rejected the balloon)
@DSWBT: thanks for the earworm.
May 13th, 2017 at 1:40 am
@dswbt .Did Billy jumped alone or he took someone with him?Any chance of survival.Anyways it’s better to die if you commit suicide
May 13th, 2017 at 1:42 am
@dswbt Suicide notes are last means of communication
May 13th, 2017 at 6:35 am
@thx1138 Sorry is not enough, never wanted to put YB in trouble. Just thought about passing the message clearly. You’re right, it is an overelobrate production.and a nightmare to organize. Wasn’t aware others might recognize .I thought YB would love this.Why YB didn’t show his discomfort and embarrassment earlier.?.How can I put him in the show?
May 13th, 2017 at 5:51 pm
Thanks for making me aware of my flaws.Talk to me.., depression frustration anger loneliness embarrassment guilt Too long and too much to handle .What have I done to deserve this,can’t take it anymore.Thats why I prefer flying sollow in my own world away from everyone.Didn’t know God will send a well wishes even in this wilderness to help me
May 13th, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Last Ten fifteen years full of mysery An imaginary angel brought back to life..,fell in love with him. Fighting with myself to get out of this. I thought it’s imaginary and won’t disturb the angel but he found out.Feeling very guilty for disturbing him
May 13th, 2017 at 11:34 pm
This is what happens when he disrobes.
October 6th, 2018 at 5:00 am
Regarding recent revelations, and looking at the shuriken-free version… I was forced to think… Tr*mp minus his famous hair-don’t?
Although this guy’s got more muscles and less fat. And fingers of normal length. But both are full of hot air.