{"id":38655,"date":"2020-05-28T05:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=38655"},"modified":"2020-05-28T05:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:22:43","slug":"sexing-up-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/sexing-up-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexing up Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the cover for <em>The Colour Out of Space<\/em> edition (Penguin Science Fiction) due in August 2020, ready for what would have been the &#8216;I got my student-grant!&#8217; season. At first glance it seems a prime example of how marketeers think that slow cerebral science-fiction can&#8217;t be sold to the masses &mdash; except by misleadingly implying &#8216;there&#8217;s steamy sex inside!&#8217;  Eager readers hoping for &#8216;hot romps in the hay-loft&#8217; may be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penguin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penguin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"727\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38656\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Penguin may claim it&#8217;s actually a mutant seed-grain, if you sort-of squint hard at it. But that&#8217;s obviously not how potential readers are intended to see it on the shelves of the bookstore.  Still, I suppose we and the designer should be grateful &mdash; at least there&#8217;s no Stephen King quote spoiling the cover.  And the penguin trademark is actually <em>kind<\/em> of Lovecraftian, if you recall the giant-penguins in <em>At The Mountains of Madness<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the cover for The Colour Out of Space edition (Penguin Science Fiction) due in August 2020, ready for what &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/sexing-up-lovecraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}