Frank Herbert: Soul Catcher

https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/8/8d/SLCTCHRFQC1979.jpg

Berkeley, 1982, Wayne Barlowe

Frank Herbert
Wayne Barlowe

>1 GSSex-noob: Weirdest sporran ever.

"Today, your shaman will be teaching you about the birds and the bees..."

He swallowed the crow to catch the fly.
I don't know why he swallowed the fly.
Perhaps he'll die.

GSS! to all. Comments like the old days.

That waist string is really strong. Holding up his sporran/loincloth, the pouch of whatever, and a big knife.

I preferred Barlowe's Extraterrestrials.

Could be worse, could be the NEL version of 1973:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61F1JfvqU6L.jpg

In which a Plains Indian abducts a boy in a void, watched over by... did Wonder Woman have an invisible helicopter? Meanwhile, there's Northwest Coast raven imagery on the spine.

>5 GSSex-noob: Barlowe's Extraterrestrials. I liked that better too.

A fun book, even if the aliens didn't always look the way I imagined them. :)

https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/barlowe-master-featured.j...

Apparently he worked on creature designs for both Avatar and Pacific Rim.

>8 bam2001: Yes, the Mr. and I disagreed with many of his interpretations of them, often referring to the original text*. The Puppeteer and Dilbian were spot-on, though.

* this was early in our relationship; such is the course of geek twu wuv.

@GSS ex-noob: I was young and stupid enough to send him a lengthy multi-page letter - with illustrations! letting him know what I thought he'd done wrong - and suggesting other alien species for a possible future edition. (strangely, he never wrote back)

>10 bam2001: Well it's certainly terrifying ...