Apparently a wizard's staff isn't the only thing with a knob on the end

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Coffeesplosion!

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

snerk

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Oh .... dear.

Somewhere I hear the silvery laughter of the ba of Sigmund Freud.

[connactic.livejournal.com]

Lune should be green, and Severian carried his sword over his shoulder.

Also, Severian himself calls the sword an 'iron phallus'.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't he be... writing?

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I'm not entirely clear why a professional service organization's bulletin needs an illustrated pulp cover at all. I assume the cover isn't actually illustrating "Taxes and the Short Story Writer."

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

FWIW, it was the published cover to the SFBC book club edition of Book of the New Sun. Which happens to be on my desk at work.

So, despite the uh, interesting choice, I can see SOME logic there. Some. As in, they are focused on Gene and covering his work, so using one of his covers makes sense.

...but why it had to be that one? Beats me.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Clearly I am the first to notice that, from the angle of the exposed forearm, that's also somebody else's hand.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Looks like black face.

Or is it a mask?

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

HA HA HA HA HA.

I wish I could claim the covers are why I stopped reading these years ago, but actually it's just laziness.

[drcuriosity]

"On Gene Wolfe" by Neil Gaiman followed by "Shouldn't You Be... Writing?" by Gene Wolfe is the most amusing part of the cover for me.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Someone must have done this on purpose! Hahahaha!