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That Big Thing Back There 3

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

Here’s the aforementioned Michael Whelan, just fucking going for it in the TBTBT annals with these pictures for Stephen King’s first The Dark Tower volume, called The Gunslinger. (That’s the man himself moping on the beach. Cheer up, pal—you’ve only got 5,600 pages of King to slog through before you get where you’re going…if you […]

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That Big Thing Back There

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

Another old paperback, sandwiched between some other sci-fi on a difficult-to-reach bookshelf. Check this out! (You really have to click to see the large version.) When I was ten or eleven years old (as near as I can remember), this book was the coolest thing in the world. What I did not realize at that […]

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James Blish

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

See? See? This is who I was dealing with while reading those Star Trek paperbacks I discussed below. Look at the picture! Exactly the guy you want relating Kirk & Co.’s adventures, right? (It was not easy, being a sci-fi fan back then.)

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