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Click for full imageDavid G Comments: A nice montage of fun & ridiculous stuff on this cover!
Published 1979
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David G Comments: A nice montage of fun & ridiculous stuff on this cover!
Published 1979
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July 1st, 2014 at 9:02 am
Just a quick note about the servers. We are temp fixed, no idea how long it will last, so thought I should post just because. Going to really try and move to a new server this week.
Cover note: Space sheep challenger? Click for full DIRTY OLD GENIUS cover!
July 1st, 2014 at 10:58 am
Let’s have a big hand for Burl Ives and his deeply personal interpretation of The Devil’s Rain.
July 1st, 2014 at 11:30 am
‘Science? Or fiction? Yah, I’d hit that…heh heh heh..’
July 1st, 2014 at 11:33 am
I thought the hand looked familiar…
July 1st, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Yes, it all seemed so funny when that portrait was painted, didn’t it? Well you’re not laughing NOW Rolf, are you!
July 1st, 2014 at 1:33 pm
His horns are askew. The one on his left is entirely on his frontal bone, while the one on his right is rooted on the fronto-parietal suture. It’s more obvious when you look at their placement relative to the rest of his skull.
July 1st, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Lecher? The women must be on the back cover.
July 1st, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Does he have miniature women disporting on the back of that floating dismbodied hand?
As I recall it, this was a load of Borscht-Belt schtick, tall tales in fractured English. I’m sure someone must have enjoyed it, once.
July 1st, 2014 at 9:18 pm
…and that r looked familiar as well!
July 2nd, 2014 at 9:05 am
And then there was the time when Satan had to replace Santa Claus to deliver presents to the planet of clockwork horses…
Seriously, I like the covers that dare to be different.
July 2nd, 2014 at 3:26 pm
“the greatest octogenarian genius lecher ever to hit the annals of science OR fiction”
Yet it seems he was able to be “octogenarian” for just under a whole year… oh, wait: you say, it’s Schimmelhorn who was the octogenarian? Meh… there are quite a few old pervs in SF, it’s a crowded field.
July 2nd, 2014 at 4:44 pm
Schimmelhorn just had a syringe full of skull-dope shoved in one ear and out the other. No wonder he is wincing.
July 3rd, 2014 at 1:49 am
You know, this would be a lot funnier if there hadn’t been that recent Marion Zimmer Bradley thing and revelations about the creepy molester culture in science fiction conventions back then.
July 3rd, 2014 at 12:05 pm
@Alessandra: If you think about it, it’s so hard to do a good character who is defined by satisfying his/her single overriding drive.
I point to, for example Wimpy from the old Popeye cartoons. He cannot think about anything except hamburgers. The desire for and the acquisition of hamburgers is the totality of his character. And he’s not funny. In Japanese samurai dramas, there are any number of characters who are so fixated on food that their actions perpetuate the week’s central conflicts. Because they exist only to advance the plot and have no more to their characters, most of them are tiresome, and others are so far beyond the pale I cannot watch their show.
And you correctly point out the evil underpinnings of the ‘dirty old man’ character. Tat Wood over on the Amish Vampire thread mentioned ‘Rosie Dixon’. We could add any number of movies and television shows from the 50s, 60s, 70s…and, sadly, before and beyond.
The one exception that proves the rule is the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. As everyone in the civilised world knows, Cookie Monster is a monster who exists to eat cookies. Yet he looks funny, with his googly eyes and wide mouth. He sounds funny, speaking in his own dialect with his gravel voice. Who wouldn’t want to try and eat a cookie like he does, with such glee? Just once?
But the fundamental difference between Cookie Monster and other Johnny One-Notes is that we are always certain Cookie Monster is a good person. He loves and respects his friends. He is interested in things other than cookies and seeks out new experiences.
And when he oversteps society’s boundaries he feels shame and vows to become a better monster. Are his efforts futile? Well, if we can find it in our hearts to forgive a thief or cheer on a recovering alcoholic, we can certainly find empathy for Cookie. It is our ability to empathise with his desires and fears alike that makes the Cookie Monster rise above competition.
And, by way of conclusion, I’m not sure I feel anything worth using up bandwidth for Goat Scalp up there. Welcome Back, Alessandra! With out you and your insights, the server kept crashing. 😉
July 4th, 2014 at 10:26 am
Alessandra, we could create a whole new blog titled
“Unintentionally Creepy SF/F Covers”…
July 10th, 2014 at 10:46 pm
@ A.R.–maybe that should be a new tag: “Unintentionally Creepy”.
July 28th, 2014 at 9:20 pm
I like the way the author’s name uses the same font as the title:
“Memoirs of an old dirty genius Reginald Bretnor”
July 31st, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Seriously, who is that tag line supposed to appeal to? And if you are seen reading this, how do you explain why?
“Well, you see, stories about young attractive perverts have been done to death. I prefer my mental image of sexual depravity to look eighty something. Please stop looking at me like that. “
November 23rd, 2014 at 4:40 am
Looks like Robin Williams…
November 25th, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Thats not Robin Williams, it’s Doug Mulray. Or Kevin Sheedy.