To Serve Man

For such a specific and very Vance story, this is entirely too generic a cover. The Stair Carrying World Championship (Overhead Lift) illustration could just as easily be used on Wuthering Heights or The Naked Lunch.

Wow!

Not sure if Our Hero is bare-chested or wearing a shirt. The visible navel argues for bare-chested, but it looks like he left his torso in the dryer too long.

A navel or a fold in the cloth? (And if that's not a shirt, is he wearing a micro mini skirt?)

Really can't tell what's going on with the rear half of Spiky Backhair guy.

>4 bam2001: I think he's wearing a one-shoulder short-short tunic.

Is the title the noises one of them makes? Alien for "derp"?

Ooh, this is the sequel to our old fave about the Wankh, with their one-legged beasts going BOING across the planet.

>5 GSSex-noob: I had a cousin who called empty paper towel or toilet paper cores "dir-dir tubes". When questioned about the name, he would put one to his mouth and made "dir dir" noises....

No paper towel cores in view, but who knows?

The Dirdir is one of the alien species on the series-titular planet.

The pose is sorta weird, is he about to trip down the stairs?

"I come bearing the Pinata!"

>8 bam2001: GSS!

>7 AndreasJ: ->Our Hero has become bored and frustrated with this competition, and he is about to yeet his burden downwind.

>8 bam2001: GSS!

@EndofDiskOne: Yeet is such a good new word for it. Spiky guy is definitely the yeet-ee.