I knew Nick back in those days, and he was… less than pleased with how Futuristic Glowy Ludwig looked here too. I vaguely recall a comprehensive rant about bad covers on SF books, especially paperbacks (Vaguely b/c this was a) over 30 years ago b) it was a VERY festive Christmas party at a mutual acquaintance’s house).
May 24th, 2018 at 11:13 am
“It’s me, Future Ludwig. Cut your hair. Lose those bulky old-fashioned clothes. Someday, you could become an interior decorator!”
May 24th, 2018 at 11:27 am
Who knew Ludwig Van posed for one of those photographs you used to get in barber’s shop windows?
May 24th, 2018 at 11:34 am
“A little more photoshopping and done! My new Match.com profile.”
May 24th, 2018 at 11:57 am
“With this device I can see into the future… of fashion!!!”
May 24th, 2018 at 12:47 pm
Who da man? You da man. Damn right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
May 24th, 2018 at 1:44 pm
And here’s the other side of the mirror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VqREjmxt_c
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if it’s an improvement.
May 24th, 2018 at 4:29 pm
So, it’s Nicholas Yermakov Smirnoff, ca. 1982—”In West Germany you look into mirror, in East Germany mirror look into you. What a country, Ludwig!”
May 24th, 2018 at 4:53 pm
I think this is an early example of clique bait.
May 24th, 2018 at 5:21 pm
In Mirror Beloved
May 24th, 2018 at 6:55 pm
Ludwig Vain Beethoven
May 24th, 2018 at 7:19 pm
It’s Tinder for the dead – Beethoven’s going to swipe right on the Princess of Wales.
May 24th, 2018 at 9:37 pm
@Daard23 – dibs
May 25th, 2018 at 12:17 am
I knew Nick back in those days, and he was… less than pleased with how Futuristic Glowy Ludwig looked here too. I vaguely recall a comprehensive rant about bad covers on SF books, especially paperbacks (Vaguely b/c this was a) over 30 years ago b) it was a VERY festive Christmas party at a mutual acquaintance’s house).
May 26th, 2018 at 3:55 pm
“If you still have one clique”?
Eh, what??
Blurb writer, you had one job…
May 26th, 2018 at 3:57 pm
Beethoven’s unprotected experiments with radium and strontium may have caused his loss of hearing later in life.
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:12 pm
Why is it Ludwig Van looks like Sean Penn?
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:18 pm
Also, this is the Author later known as Simon Hawke, no? Nice to get published under both birth name and pseudonym (’til he changed it….)