Feb 05
Click for full imageSimon W Comments: Low budget is an overstatement on this one. Four photos and a bit of fiddling with exposures. Looks like a 4th form art project done by someone studying science.
Published 1967
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February 5th, 2014 at 10:28 am
This should really be a science fiction double feature.
February 5th, 2014 at 10:38 am
Also the basis of Francis Ford Coppola’s A-PUCKER-LIPS NOW.
I admire the hand-drawn price label. Look closely and you will see proof of inflation in the secondhand book trade: it was originally written as 30p, but the 0 has been turned into a 5. I blame Cameron.
February 5th, 2014 at 11:49 am
According to the blurb, the novel takes place in something called “the World”… oh, these fantasy writers! Always coming up with fancy-pants names!
February 5th, 2014 at 11:49 am
Look, it’s He Who Must Not Be Named in the mist!
February 5th, 2014 at 11:59 am
Convince me that at least three of the people are not the same person.
February 5th, 2014 at 12:15 pm
@GSS Admin, re: the lack of space squid
Even if there had been space squid on this cover, there would have been at least two of them, and they would have been only partially sketched in and translucent, so maybe it’s for the best.
February 5th, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Mulligrubs me
Mulligrubs you
Come and be a Mulligrub too
We’ve got lots of things to do
So come on all the Mulligrubs!
M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M
MulliMulliMulliMulli
Mu-lli-grubs!
February 5th, 2014 at 12:55 pm
I feel a Prince song comin’ on, “This is what it sounds like, when books cry.”
February 5th, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Gamma Ray?
Death Ray?
No, Man Ray.
February 5th, 2014 at 2:09 pm
Rejected artwork for a failed perfume ad campaign?
Or a winning capstone project at Unknown Artist Institute!
I was really hoping Squids and Nudes Week would continue.
February 5th, 2014 at 2:54 pm
Twist! It’s a magic eye picture. Focus correctly and you will indeed be able to see the three translucent squids that are pulsating in the background.
February 5th, 2014 at 5:32 pm
The Paradox Men : The forgotten secret should go here but being forgotten and all you’ll just have to buy the book to satisfy your curiosity.
February 5th, 2014 at 9:58 pm
What’s with the colon in the title?
The Paradox Men: Charles Harness
What does that mean? Does it mean “Charles Harness equals the paradox men? Is it meant to be, er, a paradox?
I think those guys are from the Punctuation Police.
February 5th, 2014 at 10:07 pm
@Tat Wood—Either Man Ray or the original cover for
The Great Gatsby, rejected b/c the artist forgot to include the tear.
February 5th, 2014 at 10:50 pm
I’m sure one of those men is a reflection of the photographer in the book cover. I only hope it isn’t both of them.
August 28th, 2014 at 10:24 am
Personally I really like this cover. I’d gladly pay 35p to own a copy.