Is this story canon or cannon?

Posted purely to comment on the cannon creatures - the cover editor must have been on holiday at Ballantine Books the week this was published.

Wow. Looking at this one on my desktop, I got to scroll down across the image gradually.

First the illegible font: "I Darm I Dorlds Rnd Citherwise"

Then the illustration: Some respectable naive surrealism. But was this originally painted for a collection that included Lovecraft's "The Fungi from Yuggoth"?

Also, it took me a minute to realize that "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death" was a single story title. It looked like a list of three "award winners" from an author obsessed with planning.

The girl who was plugged in looks like she is happy with the results.

>2 paradoxosalpha: Same for me. Many of the covers here gradually reveal increasing horrors for me that way.

How do the cannon critters perceive their environment, sans eyes or ears?

That must be from the original 1975 issue, because my copy is the Ballantyne 1979 2nd impression, with this cover:



which is far more relevant to one of the stories. That 1975 one looks as though it's from the back end of the 1960s instead of 1975, and probably lifted from a forgotten Beatles album.

That's one evil-looking dinosaur.

The happy blonde's dress would probably make the guy happy too, had he still had possession of his eyes.

Damn! The lobsters have stolen his face. I hate when that happens.

Are they cannon creatures? It makes me wonder if they actually use their proboscises (what is the plural of proboscis?) for trumpeting. Not having ears would definitely be an advantage in that case. At least for the trumpeters.

The classical plural of proboscis is proboscides, but probosces and proboscises are also found in English (tho my phone’s spellcheck doesn’t like the last one).

>9 AndreasJ: Thank you, AndreasJ!