Oct 22
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Ryan Comments: I don’t think that the blurb writer understands how time works. And the illustrator has some interesting ideas about what occurs underwater.
Tag Wizard: And that brings Ryan Week to an end here at GSS. Thanks for the mother lode of covers.
Published 1975

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • anorak • Ballantine Books • beard-wielding • boat people • Darrell K. Sweet • dudes • font problems • he's dead Jim • searchlights • underwater • Wilson Tucker
Aug 07
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Hoo Doo Comments: The Brilliant Ideas Man thinks: “Mermaid Porn”!
Published 1982

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • big hair • chest antenna • Corgi Books • devil's dumplings • Ian Watson • Peter Jones • sea urchins • starkers • underwater
Aug 16
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Charles Comments “Do you like the underwater nursing home I found for you, Dad? When can I visit? … ooh the call must be breaking up … all that water you know ….”
Published 1960

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Ed Emshwiller • floating head • glow • Gordon R. Dickson • old-timer • shark • Ting! • underwater
Aug 13
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Dionysius Rogers Art Direction: Don’t we have some rejected cover art for that last printing of Stranger in a Strange Land? Where there’s a burning, lightning-struck monster in the middle of it for some reason?
Published 1977

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Tagged with: damsel • Don Ivan Punchatz • dude • Earth • Fawcett Books • fire • fungi • lightning • Rodger Clemens • spectacular space chart • starkers • strange creature • tree • underwater
Feb 19
Bibliomancer went to Greece and GSS didn’t even get a lousy tau-shirt. But we did get a bunch of terrible Greek book covers. I’ll turn this post (and week) over to him:
I come from Greece bearing gifts! So don’t look a Trojan Horse in the mouth. Athens has a big chain store called “Public” which is a combination of Barnes & Noble and Best Buy with a whole large floor of new books in Greek and English. Athens also have a few “charming” used book stores in some of the older neighborhoods. Here’s the inside view of one of them:


So here are some terrible covers, Greek-style. Sorry, but we will have to skip the authors, cover artists and publication dates. Be kind to Tag Wizard:
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Bibliomancer Comments:
1. Rising sea levels were not kind to Venice.
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2. Who knew Ghandi collected Barbies?
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3. Black Hawk up, Black Hawk down!
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4. Ce n’est pas un primate.
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5. Dracula in the language Prince Vlad would have understood.
Published whenever

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Tagged with: ape • baldy bad man • bowler hat • damsel • devil's dumplings • Dracula • dude • fish • font problems • giant bird • it's all Greek to me • MEGA POST • muscles • native american • Sheep! • sweet ride • teat shields • underwater • vampire • WTF
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