Apr 13
Click for full imageNix comments: This has an annoyingly shiny cover, so it may be hard to read its contents. It’s an anthology of four famous SF works: _2001_, _The Demolished Man_, _The Day of the Triffids_, and _I, Robot_. As you know, all of these contained city-sized giant mecha and huge explosions (although only two had the giant mecha dive-bombed by rocketships), so the cover is quite appropriate, and obviously is a fine piece of artwork: tasteful, yet subtle. I’m only sending it in because it’s so annoyingly shiny.
Many thanks to Nix!
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April 13th, 2010 at 9:20 am
The robot does have a strange, almost shocked expression on him. Like:
‘Hey, my robo crotch is exploding!’
April 13th, 2010 at 10:46 am
My Robo Crotch Is Exploding would be a great title for a film. A certain kind of film, that is.
April 13th, 2010 at 11:16 am
St Michael! This is a Marks and Sparks book! I wonder if you could return it to the shop and ask for the same in a different cover.
April 13th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Gah… I can hear that womens voice now. “This isn’t just great science fiction stories, it’s….”
April 13th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Isn’t that a giant robotic Mister Ben (with an exploding crotch)?
It is indeed a M&S book. I had one on aircraft when I were lad. It had concorde on the front. An exploding concorde would have been prescient AND have kept it in series style. A missed opportunity I feel.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Yes, I admit it: my mother bought me this book when I was about eight. I thought the cover was really great then. (It was still a bit of a shock to open it and see what was inside. HAL-plus-Discovery is sort of a giant robot, I suppose…)
April 14th, 2010 at 5:38 am
If the art is good and the stories are good, I can’t ridicule anything? Now I’m going into Baen Books / John Ringo / Saberhagen withdrawal.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:51 am
“The robot does have a strange, almost shocked expression on him. Like:
‘Hey, my robo crotch is exploding!’”
Well, you know the first crotch explosion is rather alarming.
This is the ‘I, Robot’ book I remember, which does indeed cover the robot part of it nicely, but it could be a technical manual for all it has to say. And ‘beyond tomorrow’ is what, Thursday?
April 30th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I have read these. Not this book but the stories at least. I like Asimov for his dialogue, characterisation and scientific view. Wyndham wrote some excellent Science Fiction (highly recommend the Chrysalids). Arthur C. Clarke is another god of Sci Fi I’ll have a look but I don’t think he would allow bad covers. I have the Demolished man by Bester in my collection. I’ll check and see if it is worthy of submission.
May 1st, 2010 at 6:12 am
2001 featured giant mecha and huge explosions? I’m not remembering those parts.
May 1st, 2010 at 3:16 pm
You obviously aren’t reading the same 2001 as Nix 😉
Though, I think it was sarcasm.
July 29th, 2015 at 1:16 am
‘Good Enough Science Fiction Stories’ had an Optimus Prime toy staring at a pen launched skyward by an exploding firecracker.
July 29th, 2015 at 10:11 am
Even if the soap is spaceship shaped, it can still be slippery.