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Click for full imageBilbiomancer Comments: No need for modesty sheep. Marilyn is wearing her white fox stole.
Published 1984
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Bilbiomancer Comments: No need for modesty sheep. Marilyn is wearing her white fox stole.
Published 1984
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December 17th, 2013 at 9:50 am
So much. . . symbolism.
December 17th, 2013 at 10:28 am
PHOARR you’re right Ae7flux… Just look at those… symbolisms.
December 17th, 2013 at 11:18 am
This is, alarmingly, an accurate depiction of a scene in the book, although he’s had 200 000 words to build up to it.
December 17th, 2013 at 11:33 am
I’ve read the book (although with a much more modest cover) and the above artwork does not lie. There’s some seriously weird stuff in DEMON (not denouncing anything, just stating facts…). It’s amazing what SF writers can get away with and call it “scientific speculation,” no?
Now, what about those Art Deco fonts? THAT’s odd.
December 17th, 2013 at 11:48 am
@TW, AR: is there anything in the book that is in good taste?
December 17th, 2013 at 11:49 am
The seven beer twitch?
December 17th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
@Dead Stuff: this is the end of a trilogy that began rather well. It’s as if the author got halfway through book two and, cursing the publishing economics that make payment for the second book in a series higher that for the first, thought ‘the hell with it’. The lady on the Centaur, and, if memory serves, the centaur, are interesting characters – Sirocco Jones is a near-future NASA pilot en route to Saturn’s moons when the gene-mixing entity on Titan gets hold of her crew and starts playing with their chromosomes.
If the British paperback had had a cover like this for the third book, and if it had come out before I read the first, I might not have bothered but, on balance, ‘Titan’ is worth a look if you can forget what comes after.
December 17th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
@Tag Wizard — Let’s give credit to cover artist Steve Ferris. This was probably from his (ahem) private collection. Imagine how awesome this cover art would look painted on velvet!
December 17th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
This really deserves to be on the side of a 70’s van…
December 17th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
marilyn monroe was not that slender.
December 17th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Pretty much how my version of ‘The Misfits’ would turn out. Does that scrawny ring lightning thing count as an official ting?
December 17th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
@TW: Ah, many thanks, I recall reading Titan back when I was in school.
December 17th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
I appreciate the way in which all of the left facing boobs balance out the right facing buttocks.
December 17th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
I don’t see much of anything wrong with this cover.
December 17th, 2013 at 9:45 pm
@Fred: I think it has to be considered tingworthy: Demons are a girl’s best Ting
December 17th, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Why didn’t I notice that her wraps have little fox heads on their ends? Ah, I can think of two reasons…more than two reasons, really.
December 18th, 2013 at 6:23 am
The centaur’s a bit odd as well. Most centaurs are part human, part horse. But this one is part human part horse, and part different horse. Look at the legs, the front pair are off a racehorse, while the rear pair look more like a plow horse. Oh, and holding that spear like that? Can’t be comfortable..
December 18th, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Part horse, part pantomime horse.
December 18th, 2013 at 7:53 pm
The Centaur seems also to be wearing a tail ring—enhances the pleasure when swatting flies?
December 18th, 2013 at 8:33 pm
@B. Chiclitz Could be a plug tail… 😉
December 18th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Quite a ring on Marilyn’s finger, eh? Nicely framed by the E. Is it emitting lightning? Pity there is no ting.
December 18th, 2013 at 10:43 pm
@DaveM: part human, part horse, part different horse, part… fish scales?
December 19th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Female rider: “See? I told you – she is a real blonde after all!”
Also – this cover really emphasizes the need for a “sideboob” tag.
December 30th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
Beings that all the people on the cover were women, even the centaur, I started wondering, “so…is this the world where feminism went horribly wrong?”
December 30th, 2013 at 7:11 pm
The Glam Rock version of “The Chronicles of Narnia” did not go as well as anticipated…
January 8th, 2014 at 3:43 pm
The girl sitting on the centaur looks like she’s trying to cop a feel of Marilyn’s thigh.
April 3rd, 2014 at 1:31 am
Interesting to note here, that despite being a far more useful creature, the reverse centaur woman was never a popular choice.
August 27th, 2015 at 3:35 am
@Anti-Sceptic: Looks more like she’s trying to poke Marilyn in the thigh.