#walter tevis

[angelvenom09]

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“What do you do? For a living, I mean.”

“Oh, I’m just visiting.”

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[albertonavajoart]

Beth Harmon

[szynkaaa]

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

Paperback to hardcover recasing, dressed as Kewpie mayo.

Admittedly, the last few books I made or recased lack on the "original" and creative department OTL;;

The last few weeks I have been busy working on a fanfic bind collab, art commission and personal art project so that has been zapping most of my creative juice, and those simple recase designs a nice break in-between the works to reset my brain

✦ replaced the baby on the Kewpie mayo package with a queen chess piece, but added the baby to the backside since it is a rather iconic design element to the brand ✦ added a hat to the baby to make it resemble the queen chess piece - also a reference to the hat Beth was wearing at the end of the season finale ✦ massive shoutout to @/saladita12 for correcting my Japanese

[gregorygalloway]

The Man Who Fell to Earth was released in the UK on 18 March 1976.

Loosely based on Walter Tevis' 1963 novel (with screenplay by Paul Mayersberg), Nicholas Roeg first approached Michael Crichton and Peter O'Toole about starring, before offering it to David Bowie (making his feature film debut).

Bowie has claimed that he remember very little of the 6-week production in the summer of 1975 (filmed in New Mexico), as he was in the midst of his cocaine addiction, stating, "I was stoned out of my mind from beginning to end." Co-star Candy Clark disputed Bowie's account, claiming that Bowie had promised Roeg "no drugs," and kept his word.

When Paramount studio (who had the US distribution) saw the finished film, they refused to pay for it, and Donald Rugoff bought the US rights, then promptly re-edited the film before releasing it in only a few US theaters.

Perplexing audiences and reviewers alike, The Man Who Fell to Earth has seen its reputation improve over the years; it is now considered to be one of the best science fiction films ever made.

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[edapparently]

Was World Book Day yesterday, so here's some of my favs from the past year!

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Iman

"The Man Who Fell to Earth" was released 50 years ago. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg and written by Paul Mayersberg.It was released on 18 March 1976. Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human vices and corruption. It stars David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn. The same novel was later adapted as a television film in 1987. #bowieforever