{"id":532,"date":"2008-12-15T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2008-12-15T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T04:51:00","slug":"book-cover-the-pollinators-of-eden-by-john-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/book-cover-the-pollinators-of-eden-by-john-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Cover &#8211; &quot;The Pollinators of Eden&quot; by John Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2008-12-15_pollinators.jpg\" alt=\"The Pollinators of Eden book by John Boyd, cover art by Peter Cross\"><br \/>\n<i>The Pollinators of Eden<\/i> by John Boyd, 1969. Penguin Books, 1978. Cover painting by Peter Cross. From jovike&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jvk\/548100545\/in\/set-72157594382368869\">flickr<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I picked up this edition from a Book Exchange here in Austin. I find all sorts of gold at this store. This painting is so weird and otherworldly. What&#8217;s unfortunate is that there probably isn&#8217;t a scene in the book that matches the strange alien beauty of this cover.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s twilight on another world, before the sun rises or just after sunset, and the flower analogues are blooming. But these flowers are just the above-ground manifestation of a rhizomatic network of semi-conscious flora. They have detected the presence of human beings on the planet, and the human-faced seeds are the beginnings of an autoimmune response system that will breed simulacra to try to communicate with the outsiders (concept stolen from Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s <i>Solaris<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pollinators of Eden by John Boyd, 1969. Penguin Books, 1978. Cover painting by Peter Cross. From jovike&#8217;s flickr. I picked up this edition from a Book Exchange here in Austin. I find all sorts of gold at this store. This painting is so weird and otherworldly. What&#8217;s unfortunate is that there probably isn&#8217;t a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[348,502],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-john-boyd","tag-peter-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}