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Click for full imageDon’s Art Direction: Decapitated heads on strings gazing soulfully at each other while their occipital regions morph into Wookiees. Oh, and guess you’d better put some flying saucers in there, since they’re in the title of this 1930s pulp novella that we’re trying to pass off as a modern 1970s novel.
Freaky. Thanks to Don!
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:31 am
This kinda scares me a little. I’m afraid that little flying saucers will come and get me during the middle of the night and leave with my head.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:37 am
SI – That totally happened to my Aunt Lois.
May 4th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Sage> Don’t tell me that. Now I won’t sleep! Though I can’t imagine I’d be alive if they took my head. Unless they were keeping my head alive through Alien science.
In fact, where’s Adam when you need him. Isn’t he the expert on disembodied heads. Or was it disemheaded bodies?
May 4th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I think the tag makes the novel sound so refreshing. “Now they plan to blow everything up”, the Vexxans, its seems arent interested in the minerals of our planet, they just like exploding shit. YEEEEHAW!
@James, lol i can just see the author explaining the intricacies of the plot to the artist, about humans being pulled on strings etc. And all the artist is hearing is “heads attached to stings, being pulled by tiny spaceships”
Is that cover meant to be on earth? Last time i checked, we didnt have 3 moons.
May 4th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Notice before the aliens decided to put on the puppet show, they took bites out of the back of each head. Yummy.
And what on earth (heh, earth) are they flying over? Dunno about you guys, but I’ve never seen a field of white grass surrounded by bare white trees with a pile of white puke in the middle. Of course, the three moons kind of suggest that the saucers might have taken the heads on a little joyride (keelhaul?) through the solar system after they decapitated them.
May 4th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I hope the publisher’s and author’s reactions to this cover went along the lines of, ‘heads will roll in the Art Department!’
May 4th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Well thats where they got the idea for the talking heads in Mars Attacks. Cover actually looks like fun, but how did it compare to Menace of the Saucers?
May 5th, 2010 at 4:30 am
@CSA: Vexxans – the Duke Boys of the galaxy.
@Jen: You had to say “puppet show”. The decapitated heads are now officially named Gerry & Sylvia.
@dad23g: 1972 for this one. (As noted, the actual story appears to be from several decades earlier.)
May 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am
‘Now they plan to blow everything up’ Is the best shoutline in the world. Ever.
May 5th, 2010 at 10:11 am
‘ . . . up everything’ You’d think I’d quote it accurately given that.
May 5th, 2010 at 10:31 am
“Skwalark, get that inflatable pool up dam it! Jezfizn! For god’s sake how long does it take to blow up a beach ball?!”
May 5th, 2010 at 11:23 am
This may even have been where they got the idea from. Pity they didn’t go for the ‘dangling massive heads by their hair’ aspect of the plan.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Also, the person holding this book seems to be purple. Are they are Vexxan? Have we been infiltrated already? Will everything blow up soon?
May 6th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Their faces would be covered with bruises from banging into each other–they’re swinging at the end of hundreds of feet of rope. Unless the rope operators in those saucers are really skilled.
Or are the saucers really tiny (or the heads really huge) and so it’s only a few feet of rope. Hmmm…perspective.
May 8th, 2010 at 12:56 am
No matter how bad you think this cover is, the book is worse.
I wish I could find my copy so I could ceremonially burn it.
May 9th, 2010 at 9:55 am
No better induction to a site full of fond mockery, BB, welcome!
These guys have fantastic hair. For a book that was published in the 70’s it certainly nailed the mid 2000’s post-Rachel look.
November 21st, 2010 at 10:35 pm
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?NGHTFTHSCR1971 lists the cover is by John Cayea
April 10th, 2014 at 2:07 pm
The saucers landed on Earth. The hippies introduced them to their bong. Now they planned to blow up everything.
NIGHT OF THE ENORMOUS RIPS
July 6th, 2015 at 6:06 pm
When I’m having a bad day, this cover never fails to lift my head.
December 22nd, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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December 24th, 2015 at 12:42 am
Mein Gott! The aliens have allied to Islamic state.