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Frank Comments: First we have The Star-Crowned Kings a Daw Books publication. I haven’t read it so don’t know what the lady-in-chain has to do with the story. But, I thought, she looks familiar, and I thought I knew where I’d seen her before: Up to the Sky in Ships, a NESFA Press collection of some of A. Bertram Chandler’s short stories. Chandler and Freas were Guests of Honor at that year’s Worldcon, which was the occasion for the book. I guess it was thought that this would be offered to a more adult audience and so the model got to stand up for this painting, so we could all see that the lady-in-chain really is a blonde.
Star Crowned Kings published 1975
Up to the Sky in Ships published 1982
It’s dos-a-dos like an Ace Double and if you flip it over you see the cover for the other collection of shorts in the book, this one from Lee Hoffman.
(Average: 5.25 out of 10)
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March 19th, 2014 at 9:43 am
Dear Mr Freas,
Please be so kind as to rotate the lady slightly so as to conceal her ladybits, and paint in a bikini brief just in case.
While you are about it, could you see your way to changing the spaceship to something a little less, shall we say, phallic?
Yours,
Donald A. Wollheim
March 19th, 2014 at 9:45 am
Incidentally, in the first photo I am amused by the strange fellow on the nearby book. He seems to be sneaking up on the main book, with leg curiously akimbo. What is THAT book, and can it be featured on GSS tomorrow, please?
March 19th, 2014 at 9:59 am
In the first one, that’s a heck of a long chain she’s got on her bath-plug and a very impractical loofah. The second shows the risks of cheap bath-salts; she’s gone blue and the bubbles are glowing.
March 19th, 2014 at 10:11 am
“Mmm. I love snuggling up in my cosy shackles of bondage!”
March 19th, 2014 at 10:30 am
Up to the Sky in a Quim?
March 19th, 2014 at 10:33 am
I’m terribly upset…I unlewis’d the image, and I expected to see something like the fellow on the Lee Hoffman cover. Well, it didn’t meet up to my expectations. I don’t know that ‘disappointed’ is quite my feeling, but I think I’ll just sit here and have a cup and look out the window.
March 19th, 2014 at 11:01 am
a little b&d in my sf is a-ok with me. nsfw imo. but, well as they say wicahis. ikr?
March 19th, 2014 at 11:22 am
Lady in chains, I adore you.
March 19th, 2014 at 11:46 am
“Star-Crowned Kings” indeed. It’s C.S. Lewis doing the crowning on the second cover.
March 19th, 2014 at 11:48 am
Personally I prefer the first lady. She is only missing an eye, whilst the other is missing her entire face. It would be too weird, although she would make a lot less noise… ummm…I think I’ll change my vote.
March 19th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
The covers that put the “science” OUT OF science fiction.
March 19th, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Why is the bottom ship being chased by comets?
March 19th, 2014 at 9:27 pm
@fred: it’s not being chased, and those are spermatozoa. 😐
March 19th, 2014 at 10:47 pm
Is there anything worse than finding a pubic hair in a second hand book, I ask you?
March 19th, 2014 at 11:43 pm
@THX: watching someone put one there?
March 20th, 2014 at 2:43 am
@Phil 2—I think that strange fellow is comparing restraint techniques with our cover damsel.
March 20th, 2014 at 8:40 am
@Phil – That strange book is called Bard, part of a series by Keith Taylor. According to reviews it is quite good.
The odd fellow is called Felimid and he is… a bard. Spoilers.
March 20th, 2014 at 10:09 am
@rev – get a picture of BARD. It belongs here in its full glory!
March 20th, 2014 at 12:45 pm
@phil – I’ll keep my eyes peeled. I don’t own a copy.
March 20th, 2014 at 1:14 pm
I had a quick shufti: the best image I could find for this edition is this http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=Bard+Keith+Taylor+Paperback (It may be a side-effect of the small market but I have yet to hear anyone say anything bad about Australian fantasy authors. The covers aren’t always much to write home about, though).
March 20th, 2014 at 5:26 pm
@Phil: Our Good Host’s slush pile is vast and deep and things can sit in it for most of a year, especially if OGH needs to get Space Sheep or C.S. Lewis in to provide modesty services.
Looks like I shot “The Star-Crowned Kings” on 08 March 2013 and that book to the left was Keith Taylor’s “Bard”, Ace 1982, Don Maitz cover art. I shot that too but the picture was a bit blurry and I don’t think I sent it in.
June 1st, 2014 at 3:33 pm
While I’ve seen a lot of obvious masturbatory material on old SF/horror/fantasy paperback covers, it’s usually been purely topless stuff. This is the first full-on full-frontal nude that I’ve seen on such things.
I feel both enlightened, and oddly dirty.
November 14th, 2014 at 7:07 pm
There’s an In and Out Quandary near our old flat. You can have your sheets washed with a quid. 😀
April 12th, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Lewis goes Up to the Thigh in Hips
April 17th, 2015 at 7:04 am
@fred, DSWBT is right, they’re trying to inseminate her. They’re working hard, so it might just pay off. Just look at how much stuff they’ve already managed to splurt out!
August 27th, 2015 at 1:00 am
First Cover: That spaceship flying past our Starkers Space Girl has a rather strong resemblance to an X-Wing. There, it’s been said.