Oct 13
Click for full imageAshton Comments: Help, I’m being attacked by a giant robot… whose torso is stuffed with… spaghetti? Maybe bring a fork.
Published 1981
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(Average: 7.98 out of 10)
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Ashton Comments: Help, I’m being attacked by a giant robot… whose torso is stuffed with… spaghetti? Maybe bring a fork.
Published 1981
Many thanks to Ashton!
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October 13th, 2010 at 9:07 am
I like the fine, high irony of including the words ‘not a bad cover’ on a very bad cover!
October 13th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Is the guy wearing one of those retro cycling helmets?
October 13th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Surely it should be “Roger Zelazny. My name is Roger”.
The robot seems to have an exo-brain (equivalent to an exo-skeleton). Why so many external brains on SF covers?
Meanwhile, the character in the foreground (who is either waving “hello!”, or is scared witless) seems to be wearing a compound eye for a helmet. Good for all-round vision, I’d say.
October 13th, 2010 at 9:22 am
PS: What would happen if the protagonist of this volume met the protagonist from Richard Matheson’s I AM LEGEND?
“Pleased to meet you. I am Legend.”
“How do you do. You can call me Legion.”
October 13th, 2010 at 10:01 am
That is an awesome robot.
The random guy wearing a future helmet ruins it though!
October 13th, 2010 at 10:33 am
The robot really needs trousers.
October 13th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Trying to get my head around the perspective of the guy with the helmet. Is he a) sitting on the floor by the front door? Y’know, as you do? B) Emerging from up the cellar steps to greet his guest, or c) Waving optimistically in the hope that the robot can tell him where his legs are.
October 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Choose a caption…
A) “Damn it’s cold outside! Let me in!”
B) “We’re having a snowball fight, wanna join us?”
C) “Come on — Vogue! — let your circuits move to the music…”
D) “NOW will you take our personality test?”
October 13th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
They actually cut out part of the full title for space reasons. Was originally “My Name Is Legion… The Dancing Robot!”
October 13th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Spaghetti? No, you got it all wrong. It’s the floating head of Phyllis Diller.
October 13th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
“DAMN it Megaman you giant klutz! You’re costing me a fortune in replacing these over-sized doors.”
October 13th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Stephen, he’s fallen through the floor due to the weight of his ridiculous helmet and is waving for assistance. The freaky robot is reaching out to help. It’s obvious.
October 13th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Dig those crazy accordion pantaloons that ‘bot is sportin’ man!
October 14th, 2010 at 8:56 am
The only robot to be created that can only communicate through interpretive dance.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I’m so confused… I read this book! And I can’t… um… I don’t recall anything about any, like, super-spy guy. I mean, just a guy doing his job, trying to get the helmet on that controls the robot in time to stop the robot from killing everyone….
(I actually referenced this book in a paper I just wrote yesterday… about science fiction clichés highlighting what Humans Fear Most… under the heading of, “our creations will rise up and kill us.”)
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:16 pm
AHA! I am reminded… The cover deals with the short story that’s included in this anthology: Home is the Hangman. 🙂 ‘Splains Everything.
June 7th, 2014 at 2:36 pm
Be excellent to each other.
June 12th, 2014 at 9:14 am
My Name Is PIMPBOT 5000
August 27th, 2015 at 12:26 am
If this robot is supposed to be in any way effective, the least that could be done is to give him some better legs. His current ones don’t look strong enough to support him.
December 21st, 2015 at 1:57 pm
“My name is L.U.C.A.! I live on the second floor!”
January 4th, 2016 at 2:33 pm
“My name is Legion! And I am funky!”
January 4th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
“This unit has a low energy level. Occupant, surrender all your birdseeds.“
February 16th, 2017 at 1:02 pm
@Tag Wizard, we need an ‘interpretive dance’ tag over here STAT!
February 17th, 2017 at 8:04 am
Interpretive dance, yes.
Also, above the spaghetti, there’s a salad. Throw in some garlic bread and red wine and we’ve got Italian Dinner Delivery-Bot.
November 8th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
How is this cover not rated higher? Surely this is one of the all-time cheesiest robot covers.
November 8th, 2017 at 5:07 pm
@A.R., love the MST3K reference.
November 8th, 2017 at 5:23 pm
He’s changed a lot since he was lead singer of Imagination.
December 2nd, 2017 at 1:42 am
My wife’s just been reading this in this very edition. The really weird bit of the robot is the elbows with little owl-faces on.
December 3rd, 2017 at 6:31 pm
He has the fire in the belly, but is it enough to master the art of Lambada?!
December 3rd, 2017 at 7:41 pm
@JP: lambada? It looks like he’s fighting his programming and the laws of physics in an attempt to dab.