An empath fleeing his home planet at the mercy of aliens, jilted lovers, personnel officers, personal shoppers, snack machines, turgid bureaucracy and a telepathic sadist.
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The first designs were too generic and didn't give a good feel for the content. They appeared unfocused and had no visible sense of humour.
Although this design shows a good view of what the spaceship looks like, it still doesn't give a sense of the comedy. Also, at the time there were copyright issues using the image of this building. These issues have since been resolved.
This was the final design for the paperback version. Instead of trying to make the cover describe the situation literally, I decided to go a less obvious route. It pays slight homage to the first Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy paperback, which also only used bright, garish fonts and backgrounds. This treatment also gives a sense of the hippy-dippy nature of the central character: a spaced-out, washed-up, drug-addled, empath who has to navigate an emotional minefield of faceless bureaucracy.
