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Mark E Comments: So many bad things done in the name of cover art to this great book. This isn’t the worse but nor does it scream “read me”.
Published 1974
You might remember this from here
…and here
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • balls • computers • David Pelham • geometric oddities • my head aplode • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
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April 8th, 2016 at 10:37 am
Snooker on BBC2 but the angles are all wrong. Higgins has a total breakdown.
April 8th, 2016 at 10:44 am
Willy Wonka’s bubble gum for the eyes wasn’t quite perfected.
April 8th, 2016 at 11:31 am
In all fairness, whoever that fellow is supposed to be, he does certainly look demolished.
April 8th, 2016 at 12:30 pm
If you jump up and down & bounce from side to side, it actually looks quite normal.
April 8th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
It is cover art by our old friend David Pelham:
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/20.html#2536
If you are looking to join the fun read about Penguin SF cover art of the 60s and early 70s here.
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/toc.html
Check your local used paperback store for one of the many terrible covers we haven’t posted yet and send it in!
April 8th, 2016 at 1:37 pm
This man is in desperate need of special sci-fi dental work. Better call this crew.
April 8th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
If you take all your prescription drugs at once, he actually does look quite normal.
April 8th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Wot no Amstrad tag ?
April 8th, 2016 at 3:23 pm
A masterpiece. ‘Nude Offending a Cover’.
April 8th, 2016 at 6:04 pm
@DSWBT: Seconded. With pool balls.
April 8th, 2016 at 6:08 pm
He fought the Angry Espers and lost.
April 8th, 2016 at 6:18 pm
There was a good cover for this once. Ironically, it was by Adrian Chesterman, for Penguin, usually a combination to make you wish air-brushes had never been invented.
Not great, but better than any of the others http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adrian-Chesterman-DEMOLISHED-MAN-Fantasy-POSTER-/250348728079
April 8th, 2016 at 8:49 pm
@RayP: Alfred Bester’s The Angry Espers’ Billiards Bluster Busted
April 8th, 2016 at 11:31 pm
@Bibliomancer – Thanks! Artist name tag updated.
April 9th, 2016 at 8:39 am
I just have a horrible feeling the artist hadn’t read the book and just thought “Sci-fi… Robots??”
April 9th, 2016 at 5:04 pm
It’s like the cover for Lennon’s ‘Shaved Fish’ met the cover for ‘Venus and Mars’ by WIngs and had a baby. Mayby the Beatles splitting was a mercy.
April 12th, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Trump’s face fell off! Quick — put it back on! And don’t forget the toupĂ©e!