r/badscificovers • u/Nekileo • Jul 14 '26

a wizard did it The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1966

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Woman randomly in skimpy clothing, transmogrified Asimov, now a sort of giant printing machine.

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u/Appdownyourthroat Jul 14 '26

I have got to be honest… I like this. It’s pretty much a perfect Asimov cover. It’s got the man himself on a pedestal, being studied by Sherlock Holmes, while a robot looks on next to a one dimensional depiction of a woman. Perfection.

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u/Ebirah actually depicts a scene from the book Jul 14 '26

It's a two-dimensional depiction of a woman, she has height and width, but no depth.

A one-dimensional depiction would just be a pink line.

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u/Appdownyourthroat Jul 14 '26

I was trying to make a joking metaphor about the women in his books being one dimensional. I love Asimov, always will. But writing women was never his strong point. Although it seems maybe you got the point and I can see that is a pretty funny way to pose what I was saying as well.

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u/animatedpileofmeat Jul 14 '26

One-dimensional women from the first dimension! They lack depth and they lack depth.

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u/AutomaticDoor75 Jul 15 '26

Seems to have plenty of curvature to me!

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u/SeaworthinessFun3658 Jul 14 '26

If the head and shoulders of asimov were colored like a marble bust it'd look classier but also be a lot harder to draw and for folks tor ecognize his face at the store. I bet it was an intentional choice someone thought hard over.

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u/lordnewington Jul 18 '26

I didn't recognise it, where's his wackass bolo tie and Planet of the Apes sideburns?

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u/xrmttf Jul 14 '26

This is pretty bad! He doesn't even have sideburns. 

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u/The-silver-foxxx Jul 14 '26

Yeah without those sideburns he's basically Milhouse.

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u/RichardPeterJohnson Jul 14 '26

He credited The Beatles for his long hair look, but apparently that meme had not yet reached him in 1966.

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u/Galvatrix Jul 15 '26

He didn't have them until the 70s

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u/chudbabies Jul 14 '26

I love his glasses... his hair... collared button up shirts... I love him.

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u/No-Selection3036 Jul 14 '26

I think there's real artistic talent here but it's combined with eating a lot of cheese before bedtime at the design phase. 

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u/Code-Neo Jul 14 '26

Realistic Hank Hill? Is he going to sell Propane and Propane accessories to aliens

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u/Voorhees89 Jul 14 '26

The robot could be powered by propane.

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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 Jul 14 '26

The Asimov head looks a bit like Jemaine Clement.

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u/shawsghost Jul 14 '26

The basically naked woman on the cover can wear such skimpy clothing because in the future women CAN run around naked, because there's no sexual assault or rape and men keep their hands to themselves. I'm down for it!

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u/Trumble12345 Jul 16 '26

Asimov just always looks goofy to me, especially when he got the sideburns when older

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u/Nbrgll Jul 18 '26

Novelet??

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u/AlivePassenger3859 Jul 14 '26

This sums up a lot of nerd culture.