Jan 06
Click for full imageKevin Comments: The title was changed at the last minute to match the involuntary noise the editor made after seeing the cover art.
Published 1977
(Average: 8.04 out of 10)
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Kevin Comments: The title was changed at the last minute to match the involuntary noise the editor made after seeing the cover art.
Published 1977
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January 6th, 2014 at 9:38 am
Well, the title tells the reader nothing. The cover tells the reader, arguably, even less. Better stick the subtitle “A Science Fiction Novel” on it, and then people will say “Ohhhh” rather than “Whaaaaaa….?”
PS Happy New Year, Sir!
January 6th, 2014 at 10:26 am
Are you ready to Rork?! Are you ready to admit that polo neck jumper you got for Christmas is five sizes too small?
January 6th, 2014 at 10:52 am
Norman Spinrad’s ‘Agent of Chaos’ shares this cover under NEL (bit.ly/19Zw9KM). Pretty sure it has bugger all to do with the contents (Beats another generic Foss spaceship at least).
January 6th, 2014 at 10:59 am
a novel. oh. by the cover art alone i was thinking this was an autobiography of the actor mickey rourke. figured they took out a few letters to make it edgy and to have room for that exclamation mark.
January 6th, 2014 at 11:16 am
Did I ever tell you about the time I put my plastic soldiers on the barbecue?
January 6th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Rork! A US Supreme Court nominee.
January 6th, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Rork! It’s the other dead meat.
January 6th, 2014 at 1:59 pm
I’ve seen rork…rork that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a novel. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that…but you have no right to read me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what rork means. Rork…rork has a face…and you must make a friend of rork.
January 6th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
“Hi five, bro!”
“NEVER!”
January 6th, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Is this the novelization of the Chinese sitcom based on an American 80’s hit, Rork and Rindy?
January 6th, 2014 at 2:48 pm
@David — Good catch on NEL reusing this same cover art for a different title. I’ve noticed that a lot of other publishers have been doing this lately:
http://tinyurl.com/kqckrjo
January 6th, 2014 at 3:05 pm
I hope Brando got paid a boat load of cash for that role.
January 6th, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Now this is a musical I would pay to see! Coming to London this summer, “RORK!”
January 6th, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Most authors would curse about the publisher who did this to a novel of theirs. Davidson may actually have put a curse on Manor Books.
@David: nothing, absolutely nothing, beats a generic Foss spaceship.
January 6th, 2014 at 6:54 pm
I don’t know, I kind of like the artwork. It’s just that I would have put in more giant floating hands and melting watches.
January 6th, 2014 at 7:13 pm
as far as titles with exclamation points go this is not nearly as catchy as’tarra khash:hrossak!
January 6th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
1. @ Bibliomancer—GSS and a happy new year to ye, maestro! Emily Brontë, indeed. Not Möbius-Dick?
2. Look at the big head and the big hand: “Wow, I could have had a V8!”
January 6th, 2014 at 8:42 pm
@B. Chiclitz — Happy New Year to you.
Yo, I got your Möbius-Dick … right here! http://tinyurl.com/mumwd3q
January 6th, 2014 at 8:50 pm
@Biblio—Capt. to mermaid: “To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart, I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee, oh, and by the way, nice tail.”
January 7th, 2014 at 12:27 am
I was counting heads (as you do) and came up with seven, the smallest being the gazing-heavenward-polyp-head in the foreground, others are angry-leaning-forward-head, shouty-armpit-head, elongated-melting-turtleneck-head, frontal-lobe-head, falling-backward-showing-canines-head, and at the back is waving-for-attention-head. If the artist intends a progression, perhaps the other polyps in the foreground represent heads as well. Is the progression from heads to polyps, or polyps to heads?
January 7th, 2014 at 8:58 am
Wait! Wait! I take back my first impulse to make a tired, trite LSD joke.
The cover is not about drugs, or bald mutants. It’s metaphorical. The bald figures are obviously grasping for the truth, visualized as the fungoid plants in the foreground. And they stretch for…
Crap, who am I kidding. Of course it’s a dope cover.
January 7th, 2014 at 9:01 am
This reminds me of the first and only time I tried to read an Ayn Rand novel out loud and failed to keep my lunch down.
“His name was Howard RORRKK!”
January 7th, 2014 at 5:49 pm
“What DO you want to DO with your LIFE?”
“I wanna RORK!”
[cue blaring guitars]
January 7th, 2014 at 6:38 pm
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Rork! http://t.co/6Dvg3770mn
January 14th, 2014 at 3:51 pm
So is Rork a noun or a verb?
January 14th, 2014 at 4:07 pm
@Anti-Sceptic: It’s a noun, a sort of runcible fork that isn’t a runcible spoon with prongs.
Or, along the lines of spiced ham becoming Spam, it’s reclaimed pork.
August 25th, 2015 at 12:46 am
There seriously ought to be a tag for “Artist On LSD”. There are likely dozens upon dozens of covers on this site that would qualify for it.
April 25th, 2017 at 9:51 pm
K-Tel Presents
CLASSIC RORK
May 30th, 2018 at 1:29 am
Misstah Rork, de plane, de plane!!