i actually read this one a couple of years ago, and i’ve got to say it’s pretty good, if a bit gimmicky. it’s about a blind guy who has a device that allows him to see through the eyes of any creature near him, and he has to escape from a concentration camp. cue scenes of trying to escape from your captors whilst looking at yourself through their eyes…
It’s also the only story I’ve ever read which shows its age via the lack of a voice synthesiser tied into a search engine (you can read the results on a screen, but you can’t have the machine speak them to you… instead you have to get it to speak *everything in its memory* until you find the right bit).
August 16th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Nice – reminds me of that daft PKD story about the “eyes following you around the room.”
Although in this case the room is a swamp.
Does the book actually refer to a “hell-camp?”
August 16th, 2010 at 10:26 am
This one is really weird, rather than bad. I’d read it!
August 16th, 2010 at 10:29 am
It’s like the old cartoons. I think he’s just seen a hot nurse. Ahoooooooga!
August 16th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
A blind man chases eyes in a swamp. Umm…
With less artistic talent, 80 000 dollar price tag and some pseudo symbolic explanation, the artist could have a successful career in modern art.
August 16th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Eyeballs eyeballs everywhere, and not a pair to see!
August 16th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
@Richard Palmer:
My mom used to make me go to Hell Camp, every summer.
We played a lot of blind man’s bluff.
August 16th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
@Tom Noir
Hahaha, I parsed that as “blind man’s buff” which added an extra layer of wrongness to proceedings.
August 16th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Is it just me or are the eyes trailing off from his ocular cavities or his boobs?
August 16th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I think this pretty nice artwork was also recycled for other book titles…
…while it OUGHT to have been recycled for titles like:
– I HAVE NO EYES AND I MUST STUMBLE by Harlan Ellison
– THE LOST EYEBALLS by Dan Brown
August 17th, 2010 at 4:40 am
This is a slightly more realistic depiction of what happens after Pac-Man eats his ghost tormentors.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:34 am
futurescientist> very good! hahahaa
He also could have been eaten and currently in the stomach of the last invisible monster.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:58 am
@AR Yngve
2001: A Space Opthamology
2010: The Year We Make Contacts
August 17th, 2010 at 10:46 am
futurescientist is definitely on to something. He must have read the script for the soon-to-be-made live-action PAC-MAN movie.
(Starring Tom Cruise as Pac-Man, and John Malkovich as Blinky. Oh, God help us all.)
August 17th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Ah, you mean this PAC-Man film?
August 18th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Now where’d I put my shirt? This is cutting in to my bongo playing time.
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:35 am
i actually read this one a couple of years ago, and i’ve got to say it’s pretty good, if a bit gimmicky. it’s about a blind guy who has a device that allows him to see through the eyes of any creature near him, and he has to escape from a concentration camp. cue scenes of trying to escape from your captors whilst looking at yourself through their eyes…
September 4th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
It’s also the only story I’ve ever read which shows its age via the lack of a voice synthesiser tied into a search engine (you can read the results on a screen, but you can’t have the machine speak them to you… instead you have to get it to speak *everything in its memory* until you find the right bit).
March 26th, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Jeepers creepers, where’d they get those eyes??
August 27th, 2015 at 3:07 am
Do they ever. If I ever saw multiple pairs of giant disembodied floating eyes wandering about, I’d be somewhat unnerved.
August 31st, 2015 at 11:24 pm
Bad news, old chum. Your eyes are floating over to this cover, and perching in their little niches.
September 1st, 2015 at 1:46 am
@Dead Stuff: So that’s ‘Night Walk’, ‘Nightchild’ & ‘The World of Tiers Vol. 2’ covers linked into a single narrative – Good Show Sir!
November 23rd, 2015 at 6:17 pm
FOOTNOTE to my comment at #13: And whaddya know, there really WAS a live-action Pac-Man movie called PIXELS, starring Adam Sandler.
Words fail.
January 11th, 2016 at 5:02 pm
@A.R.Yngve: Here at GSS we are adept at using the dark arts of COVERMANCY to predict the future!
January 11th, 2016 at 5:38 pm
@Tom: If only we had a proper Bibliomancer, to do our COVERMANCY for us.
January 11th, 2016 at 5:39 pm
Update: We have one! Goodness, he must command space and time to do that.
December 5th, 2017 at 3:54 am
The topless man said: “Ahem! My eyes are down here.”