@Fred: the other cover and back-blurb suggest an unholy alliance of ants, blondes, Rod Taylor with a van dyke beard and ravening monsters. This cover shows a large steam-driven Alessi lemon-juicer with googly eyes. I wonder which is more accurate. I’m betting on the lemon-juicer.
The presumed thoughts of the running man in the foreground:
“If I run fast enough and flap my arms, then I’ll be able to fly, and escape this monster! I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly . . .” ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, the robot gives him a bit of a mercy lead because it’s amused by these attempts.
@fred – Thanks for the other cover. It doesn’t have the whole monster brain/ robot brain contradiction, but it does call the book “science fiction at its best” in the same breath as calling it a fantasy. Is anyone sure what this book is really about?
@DSWBT – How many ways have these robot brains been portrayed? And wouldn’t robot brains just be a computer? Guess that sounds less menacing…
@HBw: A Google image search turned up at least four covers, three of which have been linked from this page. What amuses me is that the title is “Brains”, but it was published by Digit. 😉
@DSWBT – Following this book down the rabbit hole has just gotten too damn confusing given the posted cover. Think I’ll just get drunk where it all might make some kind of sense..
February 5th, 2016 at 11:19 am
The Robot Brians? That doesn’t sound too imposing.
February 5th, 2016 at 11:22 am
“My fish was THIS big!”
“Myne Wazzzz Biggerrr!”
February 5th, 2016 at 11:22 am
‘BEEP-BEEP-CANT-A-FELLOW-BEEP-BEEP-CHUCK-A-SHIT-IN-PEACE-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP’
February 5th, 2016 at 11:25 am
‘Sydney J Bounds’ is an anagram for ‘Sunny Dyed Jobs’ and ‘Jenny, Bossy Dud’.
February 5th, 2016 at 12:23 pm
“The hills are alive
with the sound of …
ROBOT BRAINS
BEHIND YOU!”
February 5th, 2016 at 12:27 pm
The original. Things really are better when you add giant ants.
https://unsubscribedblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/digit-bounds-the-robot-brains.jpg
February 5th, 2016 at 12:30 pm
“Come with me if you vant to leev.”
Pretending to be a scarecrow will not save you.
February 5th, 2016 at 12:42 pm
The back cover sounds way more promising than the front cover shows.
http://www.apocalypsebooks.com/img/cover/robot-brains.jpg
February 5th, 2016 at 12:59 pm
“Dat Azzz!”
February 5th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
@fred: I had no idea Robert Downey Jr. was in this!
February 5th, 2016 at 1:37 pm
Judging by the back cover text, the front cover was one giant missed opportunity.
(But then, are we to trust a back cover text?)
February 5th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
Ironically, in the real world it’s monster MORONS who are really destroying Man’s hope for survival.
February 5th, 2016 at 3:31 pm
@Fred: the other cover and back-blurb suggest an unholy alliance of ants, blondes, Rod Taylor with a van dyke beard and ravening monsters. This cover shows a large steam-driven Alessi lemon-juicer with googly eyes. I wonder which is more accurate. I’m betting on the lemon-juicer.
February 5th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
@fred: ‘Captain Christian’ sounds like a fourth-rate morality comic book character.
February 5th, 2016 at 4:05 pm
A day in the life of the robot, “Brains” . . . .
Human: Hey Brains, you look like a deformed steam locomotive. Hah! Try and catch me as I run across this rugged terrain. Bet you can’t!
Brains: I think I can, I think I can.
Human: Well, you’re last name might be “Brains,” but I think your first name is
“Shitfor.”
Brains: Yeah, well, I’m not the one about to run off the cover and wink into non-existence, am I?
February 5th, 2016 at 4:51 pm
The robot brains built a pagoda! Didn’t see that one coming, did you?
February 5th, 2016 at 5:25 pm
The presumed thoughts of the running man in the foreground:
“If I run fast enough and flap my arms, then I’ll be able to fly, and escape this monster! I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly . . .” ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, the robot gives him a bit of a mercy lead because it’s amused by these attempts.
February 5th, 2016 at 7:14 pm
GET A
ROBOT
BRAINS!
MORANS
February 5th, 2016 at 7:27 pm
‘IT…LOOKS…LIKE…YOU’RE…WRITING…A…LETTER…’
February 6th, 2016 at 2:21 am
@fred – Thanks for the other cover. It doesn’t have the whole monster brain/ robot brain contradiction, but it does call the book “science fiction at its best” in the same breath as calling it a fantasy. Is anyone sure what this book is really about?
@DSWBT – How many ways have these robot brains been portrayed? And wouldn’t robot brains just be a computer? Guess that sounds less menacing…
February 6th, 2016 at 12:09 pm
@HBw: A Google image search turned up at least four covers, three of which have been linked from this page. What amuses me is that the title is “Brains”, but it was published by Digit. 😉
Roddy Williams, Esq., via Goodreads, tells us: When the police do not believe the irascible Doctor Fox’s contention that there is a connection between a travelling circus and the decapitation of several leading scientists, he asks his friend, Captain Christian, to help him investigate…‘The Brains’, it transpires, have travelled from the future of Earth, long after the time when Humanity seeded interstellar colonies. The Earth humans did not divide and evolve along lines of class structure, as Wells’ humans did, but of gender, Men grew more intelligent than women while women lost their intellect and grew merely huge, blonde and beautiful. Bryan adds, ‘The title had nothing whatsoever to do with the story’ and gave it three stars of five.
February 6th, 2016 at 9:35 pm
@DSWBT – Following this book down the rabbit hole has just gotten too damn confusing given the posted cover. Think I’ll just get drunk where it all might make some kind of sense..
February 6th, 2016 at 9:42 pm
@fred: Cragganmore and I are MILES ahead of you. 😀