Title: Human?
Editor: Judith Merril
Introduction: Fredric Brown
Cover artist: Rafael DeSoto [R. DeSaint??] [signature in bottom right corner, hard to make out—I read it as "R. DeSoto" because Rafael DeSoto is a famous cover artist. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has "R. DeSaint," but I can't find any other mention of such a person on the Internet, so …?]
Yours for: $18
Best things about this cover:
- And that's when the 2213 Miss Glotron-X swimsuit competition got a little weird …
- "Um … sir? … your mankini top … it's just … if you could … maybe pull it … a little …"
- "This device allows me to speak to my own jugular veins directly!"
- "'Human?' The game show where you … decide what the answer to that question is. Are you ready, Bill? Let's bring out our first set of subjects!"
- Bill does not look confident. Or else that's just his "ill-fitting mankini-bottom" face.
- I'm all for body modification, but I think I draw the line at chicken-fishing.
Best things about this back cover:
- don marquis is the e. e. cummings of paperback scifi anthologies.
- Some heavy hitters in there. Also, Graham Doar. "My friends call me 'Trap'!" Sure they do, Graham.
- Just how many anthologists are there, Boucher? That's about as ringing an endorsement as "Sammy Hagar is among the very best Van Halen frontmen."
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Immediately the room seemed to shake itself; things wavered uncomfortably; then I realized Drip was astigmatic.~RP
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