Feb 08
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Bibliomancer Comments: Steamboy’s STD looks painful.
Published 1973

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Tagged with: Colin Hay • John Sladek • little people • Panther Books • robot • spotted dick • steamy • WTF
Oct 27
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Belatrix Comments: Butch is about to find out what happens to your hand when you punch a steel robot.
Published 1982

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Tagged with: books on the covers of books • Carl Lundgren • evil children • garbage • John Sladek • robot • Timescape Books
Mar 13
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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Müller-What-The-Fokker Goings-on
#1 Tat Wood’s Art Direction: “Look, we’re late to this whole Cyberpunk thing but I’ve got the rights to a book about a guy being stored as data. It was published twenty years ago but we can kid the nerds into thinking it’s hip and fresh. It’s a comedy but for Chrissake don’t let on.”
#2 Good Show Sir Comments: Tat lays down the challenge, but I say you can never beat the first edition. Those hardcover publishers only hire the best artists.
Published 1990, 1970

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Tagged with: Bill Botten • Carroll & Graff Books • dead eyes • eye-yi-yi • font problems • Hutchinson • John Sladek • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • my head aplode • nose • Ouch! • spectacular space chart • Spock ears • swingers • tasteful smoke • two-fer • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
May 20
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Bookworm Bas Comments: A 1978 PAN edition. I like the play on words with the title submitting ‘sex’ for ‘things’ in reference to H.G.Wells. I also like the artwork. After all who doesn’t like naked women? No relation to any of the stories of course. At least I don’t recall any flying platform jetting away from a mountain range while a nude women, her decency protected only by her exceptionally long brunette hair, is overcome with emotion. Still I bet they sold a few and I reckon the hair extensions were painted in later (which is a shame I think).
Not bad short stories Anne McCaffrey and Hilary Bailey in there as well to represent women. But also John Sladek, A.K.Jorgensson, Thomas Disch and Douglas Hill in addition to those on the front cover.
Epic! Thanks to Bookworm Bas!

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Tagged with: A.K. Jorgensson • Anne McCaffrey • Brian W. Aldiss • cleavage • damsel • Douglas Hill • Hilary Bailey • John Sladek • Michael Moorcock • Pan Books • Robert Silverberg • starkers • Thomas Disch • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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