Davis Meltzer for "A Plague Of Demons" by Keith Laumer, 1971
Giant robots with human brains fight the demons' wars. I love that and I think the illustration fits perfectly. It's too bad making books influenced by nightmare realities hasn't changed those realities.
The demons' wars. That's the important thing. Not the humans' wars, not even the robots with human brains' wars.
Anyways part of me thinks that this is cool or hilarious in a twisted way, and part of me feels like that isn't okay to feel when real people are suffering in real wars. I guess maybe this is one of our reactions to the horror of it all, a sort of exaggeration or deconstruction. A response to the hypocrisy of society or parts of society. Hopefully in the end it's the demons that lose.
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