Left: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982); cover art by Richard M. Powers. Right: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Del Rey, 1983); cover by Michael Whelan.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Another Look: “Friday”
Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary.
Left: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982); cover art by Richard M. Powers. Right: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Del Rey, 1983); cover by Michael Whelan.
Left: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982); cover art by Richard M. Powers. Right: Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein (Del Rey, 1983); cover by Michael Whelan.
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3 comments:
If Raquel Welch didn't get a big bunch of money over that Whelan cover, she should have gotten a different lawyer.
I bought the edition on the right. At the back of the book was a survey you could mail in. One of the questions was "What made you pick up this book?" One of the choices was "The cover".
I bought the Whelan copy when I was a teen. I was too mezmorized by the cover to ever start reading it until many years later ...
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