Paperback 933: Between Planets / Robert Heinlein (Ace 05501)

Paperback 933: Ace 05501 (1st thus, ca. 1970)

Title: Between Planets
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist: Steele Savage (!)
Frontispiece artist (!!!): Clifford Geary

[Part of the Laura R. Braunstein Collection]

Est. value: $5-10

Best things about this cover:

• Nice dismount, Space Jesus!
• Someone was So High when they designed this.
• "So, like, the dragons have eyes, but then those eyes have eyes ... like, seven eyes ... and the dragons are swimming through, like, an algae-covered pond toward a tiny floating city, and then there's this muscly space preacher in a hot orange spandex body suit who's like 'AMEN!' ... oh my god this is gonna be sweet."

Best things about this back cover:

• Not to bring the room down too much, but this is really poorly written. It's like a 10-year-old trying to summarize a story.
• I see now why they needed the psychedelic nutjobbery of the front cover—to offset this soporific nonsense.
• "Don, the hero of this story" is an improbable sentence.

Bonus feature ... FRONTISPIECE!

Best things about this frontispiece:

• Oh, man, I'm gonna be having man-goat-chicken nightmares for days now...
• The twin dildos on top really tie the whole look together.
• The human appears to be unzipping his fly. I'm now a little worried for man-goat-chicken.

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Involuntarily Don grunted with pain.

Choose your own context!

~RP