Title: The Jagged Orbit
Author: John Brunner
Cover artist: Uncredited
Best things about this cover:
- Gotta love the olde-timey computer script: "Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate ... The Jagged Orbit!"
- In the future, the universe will be run by giant, anthropomorphic gumball creatures.
- If this cover, and the endorsement from Philip K. Dick, don't make you realize that everyone in 1969 was high, then I hereby offer Exhibit B...
Best things about this back cover:
- I love how "this world of ours" (circa 1969) sounds just like "this world of ours" (circa 2008).
- Thomas Disch gives us a good example of why more people don't write blurbs in the middle of acid trips. "The styling is now" is something we should all start saying. That, or "Eat it!"
2 comments:
[bitchy comment]The day Phillip K. Dick praises your "artistry" is the day to hang up your word processor.*[/bitchy]
I wikied this Thomas Disch character to see if I could find out what sort of like experiences would provoke a man to say "The styling is Now. Wear it! Eat it! Drive it! Buy it today!" One assumes drugs, of course, but it turns out he's a science fiction author/poet/opera critic/computer game designer. I want his life.
*or "typewriter," as they called them back in the day.
I just like the back-cover lament about the "too-casually defined 'insane' ". It really seems like the copywriter has a specific, personal grudge about this.
lol.
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