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The Makeshift Rocket(From the book "Solar
Wind
Volume 2")A cover painting
created for Hamlyn
Books in the UK in 1978.A somewhat crazy but entertaining
story of the false quarantine of the spaceship 'Mercury
Girl' on the
planetoid Grendel, which had been overtaken by members
of the Irish
revolutionary Shamrock Expeditionaries. Knud Axel Syrup,
the ship’s
engineer, has to find a way off the planetoid. He
enlists help from a
six-legged lederhosen attired alien called Sarmishkidu
Von
Himmelschnidt, and a female dancer called Emily Croft
and manages to
build the first beer-powered spaceship to escape
Grendel! (Yes, really, a beer powered
spaceship . . . . .)"It “seemed obvious to the artist
that ”a spaceship image was definitely needed.“Iconic!Deborah
Susan JonesContributing editor
