Jul 06
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Lets not beat around the bush… though best not to show any of that… lets keep the randy teenagers guessing by covering her with… sperm shaped space ships! I think this is the cover this climax deserves.
Published 1982
Many thanks to Sara!
July 6th, 2015 at 10:23 am
I just have images of justifying this on a bus, “It’s not what you think! It’s the climax of an epic saga!”
July 6th, 2015 at 10:54 am
I honestly thought sperm-shaped spaceships were GSS’s new space sheep.
July 6th, 2015 at 11:11 am
I came upon this same cover at my local bookshop.
But then I was too embarrassed to take a photo.
July 6th, 2015 at 11:21 am
@BM: “I came upon this same cover…”
That’s the thing about this cover – it looks like someone already did!
July 6th, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Goodness! The E and the D are in flagrante delicto!
July 6th, 2015 at 12:19 pm
Eric Van Badluster seems tremendously overexcited by Sean Young’s space nudism.
July 6th, 2015 at 2:14 pm
It’s Jews. JEWS! JEWS IN SPACE NOT COOZ IN SPACE!
July 6th, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Are we sure that’s a girl? And what does the blurb have to do with anything?
July 6th, 2015 at 4:32 pm
@Tat – Hmmmm…hips?…adams apple?…5 o’clock shadow? The blurb isn’t intact. Top line is ‘Not since Dune…’, which adds a whole other layer to Mr Lustbader’s blathering.
July 6th, 2015 at 6:03 pm
Mr. Lustbader is the author of THE NINJA, so everything he says should be taken very. seriously.
July 6th, 2015 at 6:04 pm
Has anyone else noticed that the sperm-ships have tiny faces??? Or did I grab the wrong pill bottle again?
July 6th, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Edge of Tomorrow: the Original Script.
July 8th, 2015 at 4:09 am
Don Ivan Punchatz fans will want to have this cover version, suitable for framing ($46.99+), to hang in their boudoir.
July 8th, 2015 at 2:19 pm
So I guess Brunette Space Goddess is the sister of Blonde Space Goddess, last seen on the covers of “Up to the Sky in Ships” and “The Star-Crowned Kings”.
As for Van Badluster, he is of course one of the most subtle and cryptic authors of the 20th Century. You might think that “The Ninja” is about a ninja, but you would be wrong. It’s actually about *two* ninjas. Which, then, is *the* Ninja, to whom the title refers? The reader is left pondering this eternal enigma.
July 8th, 2015 at 2:33 pm
‘Not since Lust have we witnessed a ninja struggle of such bad intensity!’
Eric van Awesomeduner, power of The Author
July 8th, 2015 at 3:39 pm
“Not since Ninja have we powered a lust struggle of such awesome badness!”
Dune van Intensity, author of The Eric.
July 8th, 2015 at 3:56 pm
@RachelJ: 🙂 I shouldn’t have even tried…
July 8th, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Thanks to Bibliomancer, I now want to know if the back cover of this book also shows an attempt to deface the special limited edition Obergefell Vs Hodges commemorative coin.
July 9th, 2015 at 1:21 pm
“Van ninjas.. We struggled.. The power… Not had bad lust of such intensity since.”
Eric Duner, author of Awesome!, a witness.
August 3rd, 2015 at 1:06 pm
The time window for spaceships passing just in front of the lady’s private parts should be… off the top of my head… 0.1 millionth of a second.
January 5th, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Those are either sperm-shaped spaceships (try saying that three times fast), or “space fish”. Take your pick.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:30 am
@B’mancer: oh, I wish I had followed your link earlier! I could have bought a package of holiday cards with the space sperm fish ships on it. Ah, well, there’s always next year…