WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE (1977)
A classic cover for the anthology of the same name by Alan Dean Foster featuring a young Mr. And Mrs. Whelan as the farmer and his wife. The son is based on the boy in the story.
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Book cover for WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE by Alan Dean Foster, published by Del Rey.
At a kitchen table surrounded by aliens, a man in overalls and white shirt with sleeves rolled up holds up a sugar cone topped with chocolate ice cream. He stares knowingly at the camera with mouth cocked in a dimpled grin. Behind him, a woman in apron nervously offers an ice cream to a creature with purple fur and horns on its head. In the foreground right, a lobster-red insectile alien stares down in surprise at his dripping treat. The last alien, bulky and green with bulbous head and tiny red eyes, extends its bumpy pink tongue from pronounced mandible in a long slurp. In one of its four hands, it holds a tiny cookie from the plate set on the table between guests. Seated in the foreground left with back angled toward the audience, a human boy, distracted from his dessert by the oddball affair, seems enthralled by the visitors. The background is a haze of bright yellow with white highlights defining an arched window.
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