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Click for full imageWhitney’s Art Direction: Oh, under HEAVEN’S Bridge. I thought you said something else…
Published 1982
(Average: 9.08 out of 10)
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Whitney’s Art Direction: Oh, under HEAVEN’S Bridge. I thought you said something else…
Published 1982
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April 12th, 2011 at 10:22 am
Now that’s what you call a star jump. The future of gymnastics? Yes, I believe it is.
April 12th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Actually, this is a pretty good SF book cover. The art is original and stylishly made (and weird, but I like weird covers), the fonts are tastefully used…
Can you imagine the Baen Books version? Can you imagine how over-the-top it would be? Think about it, won’t you?
April 12th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Pin him(?) to a fencepost and give him(?) a spin, and he’d be a human(?) catherine wheel. He(?)’s just dying to say, “Wheeeeeee!”
April 12th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
The first thing I noticed about this cover was the classic 1970’s color scheme of gold. brown, and olive. Then I noticed the two aliens and quickly gave up trying to figure out what was going on there. “At least there’s a hunk,” I thought when I saw the nekkid man in the lower right corner; however, he seems to have the hindquarters of a woman.
April 12th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Pointy hats are perfect for baby gymnastic lifts above your head!
April 12th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Where’s my cow?
Is that my cow?
It goes “shhjziklechuffchuffzzzzzp”.
It’s a…umm…err…night light.
That is not my cow.
April 12th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Why does it have SO MANY KNEES
April 12th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Inexplicable cover featuring disturbing naked aliens doing gymnastics? Garish color scheme?
THIS is how you sell sci-fi novels!
April 12th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
“Why does it have SO MANY KNEES”
– So that it can knee Donald Trump in the groin three times simultaneously.
April 12th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
To be fair, this would greatly improve all those reality dance programs on the BBC! 🙂
April 12th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Someone took “Dancing With the Stars” rather literally.
April 13th, 2011 at 4:59 am
Coming soon on Britain’s Got Talent!
April 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am
The tall one with lots of knees reminds me a bit of Bender from Futurama.
April 14th, 2011 at 6:30 am
I believe either his legs telescope, or they’re made of bamboo.
April 14th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Must be a great book. Just look at all the effort the owner took to tape it back together!
April 25th, 2011 at 5:00 am
Never before have I so badly wanted to know what, exactly, is going on in a cover. Are the aliens melting, or are those tentacles? Decorative streamers? Are those halos part of their heads? Why is that guy naked?
June 25th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
they’re either mating… Or junior is being held aloft to see the A380 at Farnborough. Which seems a bit irresponsible considering he’s shooting lasers from his eyes. You know what… standard archeologist’s explanation, its some sort of religious act.
August 20th, 2012 at 4:56 am
“I name you…KUNTA KINTE!!!”
@fred @ No. 6: Brilliant. Awesomely Brilliant.
September 6th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Simba, everything you can see is yours!
March 7th, 2013 at 7:29 pm
‘Phil…god, Phil, what have you done?’
‘Sweetheart, I’ve combined our creche with my twin loves of termites and model rocketry. As soon as I take off my control-top hose, I’m going to put it out on the front lawn!’
March 8th, 2013 at 6:11 pm
I’ve just remembered that IAN WATSON is an anagram of NOW A SAINT.
Dunno about Michael Bishop though.
March 13th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
If I can . . . just . . . touch . . . the alien’s right ankle, maybe this guy’s clothes will magically come back on. I can’t take much more of that waistline—it’s higher and narrower than mine!
August 13th, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Everybody now!
“It’s a circle of liiife…”
August 25th, 2015 at 5:00 am
Lots of weird lower halves: Insect Legs Sr. and Jr., and the guy with a female lower body.
Overall impression, though? What.
January 11th, 2017 at 6:02 am
I am reminded of the line from the first movie of “The Thing”: it’s a giant carrot! Correct color, little tendrils sticking out.