Oct 29
Click for larger imagePriscilla’s Art Direction: I want a manly cover filled with masculine symbolism. I want the cover to scream “look at me, I’m hard sf”. So don’t just dick around on this one. Make it pop!
Published 1975
(Average: 5.29 out of 10)
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October 29th, 2019 at 9:18 am
This kind of vibrating tension will never go out of date.
October 29th, 2019 at 9:49 am
“Mommy, the kids from the next floating city over say we’re a bunch of dildos, what does that mean?”
October 29th, 2019 at 10:36 am
Hmmmm….Dick Glass. Explains a lot.
“Welcome to the Standard Nightmare” Robert Sheckley “The Expensive Delicate Ship” Brian W. Aldiss “Dreaming & Conversions: Two Rules By Which to Live” Barry N. Malzberg “Breakout in Ecol 2” David R. Bunch “The Cold War…Continued” Mack Reynolds “The Factory” Naomi Mitchison “The Defensive Bomber” Hank Dempsey (see Pseudonyms) “Endorsement, Personal” Dean McLaughlin “The National Pastime” Norman Spinrad “The Ultimate End” Dick Glass “Pity the Poor Outdated Man” Philip Shofner “The Exhibition” Scott Edel stein “Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind” Philip Jose Farmer
October 29th, 2019 at 11:54 am
“Thirteen” just say, “thirteen”. You bunch of dicks.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:04 pm
THE OUTDATED MAN
The Steven Seagal Story
October 29th, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Mmmm, meringue. I wonder if it’s white and sticky inside.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:21 pm
My God… it’s full of dildos.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:23 pm
@JuanPaul – It’s a baker’s dozen of stories!
October 29th, 2019 at 3:24 pm
The fortress of Emperor Wang?
October 29th, 2019 at 4:31 pm
My my, what an interesting city design you have there.
(And by interesting I mean extremely Freudian.)
October 29th, 2019 at 6:14 pm
Outdated? You mean nobody uses jelly-moulds any more?
October 29th, 2019 at 7:19 pm
I didn’t know Ayn Rand wrote science fiction.
October 29th, 2019 at 7:25 pm
I suppose that’s “Hairy Harry” Henderson.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:55 pm
Is there a term for a cluster of dildos? You know, like a flock of birds, school of fish, herd of buffalo, etc.?
October 30th, 2019 at 12:39 am
A phalanx of phalluses, a battery of vibrators, a mob of magicwands?
October 30th, 2019 at 1:24 am
Why is there a giant pterodactyl perching atop the tallest let’s-call-it-a-tower? Is it planning to build a nest? Fulfilling a fetish?
October 30th, 2019 at 2:46 am
@Bruce: You’re right, it’s a pterodactyl. But before I enlarged the picture to look, I thought the tower had … um … gotten excited.
October 30th, 2019 at 2:59 am
The Outdated Man:
#metoo #timesup
Why, for being all futuristic and prophetic, did they pick the (partial) title that is exactly the opposite? And not even by the biggest (har) name author? Perhaps they didn’t realize that the title would become quite literal sooner than they would have liked.
Lady Michison must have been just thrilled about being in this one.
Pterodactyl dick sounds like something extremely unpleasant to have.
@Fred: The persons responsible for the cover really gravitated to that title and author, didn’t they? But glass dicks aren’t a good idea either.
@JuanPaul: agreed. It’s 13, you knobs.
October 30th, 2019 at 3:44 am
Being scared of thirteen is definitely not very futuristic.
October 30th, 2019 at 5:14 am
@Tor M, @BAM—Silly me, I thought it was a French Tickler!
October 30th, 2019 at 5:17 am
@JP, @B’mancer—a troop of tools, a pride of plonkers, a sojourn of snakes, a ward of wangs, a parliament of pricks, a bloat of boners . . .?
October 30th, 2019 at 7:20 am
“They said my sex toy designs were overly complicated and impractical! Fools! I’ll show them! I’ll show them all! Mwah-ha-ha-ha-hah!”
October 30th, 2019 at 10:48 am
Selections of vibrators are available in bargain multipacks? – Is that why the man is feeling outdated?
October 31st, 2019 at 2:23 am
@Vlttp: Good Show Sir or Madam! I LOL. You’ve sussed it out.
Judging by the “ships” over on the left, the vibrators even deliver themselves.
November 1st, 2019 at 9:56 pm
@GSSxn: You now have me wondering how accurately those self-delivering models target their customers – and hoping the fins are retractable.
November 1st, 2019 at 10:51 pm
Let’s hope the delivery only goes to the person’s address.
(I deliberately omitted the fin speculation. Shudder.)
(Unless one likes that sort of thing, in which case one should not discuss it in gentle company.)
November 1st, 2019 at 10:59 pm
Let’s not start kinkshaming or this thread will turn into a real clusterf- no, I won’t go there.
November 2nd, 2019 at 9:37 pm
I don’t care what anyone does among consenting adults in private — am entirely agreed with Mrs. Campbell:
“so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!” Or the faint of heart.
I do think @THX has correctly (almost) chosen the perfect term to describe this illustration!
(And even if one likes the fins, one wouldn’t want them unexpectedly delivered at work!)
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:28 pm
@THX1139: Agreed, kinkshaming should be avoided – unless your kink involves humiliation, in which case shaming should be strictly within previously agreed limits, (and strictness should also be strictly within previously agreed limits)
@GSSxn: I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can at least assure you that I have never performed any act that has frightened, or otherwise involved, a horse.
Including the flying ones I count 22 dildos in the picture. Is there a prize if you get it right?
November 4th, 2019 at 9:18 am
@Verylate: Yes, you win the dildos.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:46 am
Well, then, @Vlltp has their Christmas gifts sorted. Everyone they know is getting a futuristic white dildo, As Seen On
TVDell Books!November 5th, 2019 at 10:53 am
Last year everyone complained ‘Not socks again.’ – well I’m not having that this year! Conveniently, they also fit very well into a reasonably sized Christmas cracker.
November 6th, 2019 at 6:17 am
You’d probably still best give the socks (and conventional crackers) to the children, though.
November 6th, 2019 at 11:35 am
As long as I’m very careful not to mix up any of the gift tags, it should be fine.
November 7th, 2019 at 7:28 am
Or at least educational.