Another pulp cover
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Another pulp cover
I have no idea what's going on here but I like it! (Apologies if a re-post but I don't recall seeing this one before)
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Re: Another pulp cover
Cool cover but you do have to be suspicious of the contents. I bought a few of those vintage pulps over the years and paid a pretty good buck for them. I read them once and they went back in the protective sleeves they came in. The covers rarely have anything to do with the contents!
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Re: Another pulp cover
Totally agree on content/cover mismatch. Before I posted the cover image I tried to find a synopsis of the storyline but wasn't successful. I found alternate cover art for the same title (a venus de milo silhouette) so maybe there is some sort of asfr content, but to your point, odds are not.
I don't have the time to try and re-find that alternate cover right now but might look later...
I don't have the time to try and re-find that alternate cover right now but might look later...
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So to Zapped!'s earlier point, I'm NOT suggesting that anyone spend their hard-earned money on any of these books, but here's the the write up from Amazon on the one below:
???Ice City of the Gorgon??? is grand tale of science fiction and fantasy by Richard S. Shaver and Chester S. Geier. Did anything like the legendary Gorgon actually exist? Could it really turn men to stone with its mere gaze, or did it have powers even more horrible? Two American flyers found the answer in an ice-covered valley of Antarctica. They also found a lost city run by a woman of incredible beauty with a penchant for tyranny and lust.
It's a great title and I think the cover's a winner, but the story likely sucks at best.
???Ice City of the Gorgon??? is grand tale of science fiction and fantasy by Richard S. Shaver and Chester S. Geier. Did anything like the legendary Gorgon actually exist? Could it really turn men to stone with its mere gaze, or did it have powers even more horrible? Two American flyers found the answer in an ice-covered valley of Antarctica. They also found a lost city run by a woman of incredible beauty with a penchant for tyranny and lust.
It's a great title and I think the cover's a winner, but the story likely sucks at best.
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Re: Another pulp cover
Actually never saw that one before but the cover art does looks good! 
...And oddly enough- Some of the best novels I have read with ASFR themes have covers that had absolutely nothing to do with the content inside!thestatuemaker wrote:Totally agree on content/cover mismatch. Before I posted the cover image I tried to find a synopsis of the storyline but wasn't successful. I found alternate cover art for the same title (a venus de milo silhouette) so maybe there is some sort of asfr content, but to your point, odds are not.
I don't have the time to try and re-find that alternate cover right now but might look later...
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Any suggestions on titles? The only mainstream, vaguely ASFR-related title I know of is The Fermata...zapped! wrote:Actually never saw that one before but the cover art does looks good!
...And oddly enough- Some of the best novels I have read with ASFR themes have covers that had absolutely nothing to do with the content inside!thestatuemaker wrote:Totally agree on content/cover mismatch. Before I posted the cover image I tried to find a synopsis of the storyline but wasn't successful. I found alternate cover art for the same title (a venus de milo silhouette) so maybe there is some sort of asfr content, but to your point, odds are not.
I don't have the time to try and re-find that alternate cover right now but might look later...
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Been a while since I've read the book, but I'm sure there's no ASFR content or I'd have remembered it.thestatuemaker wrote:Naked woman - check. Pedestal - check. Works for me...
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