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Click for full imageAl Comments: I hate to go here in my first post, but this cover is just, so, well, robo-erotic.
Published 1994
(Average: 7.23 out of 10)
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Al Comments: I hate to go here in my first post, but this cover is just, so, well, robo-erotic.
Published 1994
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May 4th, 2011 at 11:23 am
“Dawn” being the head masseuse?
May 4th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
“just hurry up and take the photo R2D2 before the rohynol
wears off and hugh Jackman wakes up”
May 4th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Those damn robots, coming here stealing our jobs and our hunks…
May 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
“You are so tense, human. The First Law compels me to give you a sensual massage.”
May 4th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
“Crap, we’re going to press and we don’t have a cover yet!” “Here, just take this half-finished romance novel piece and put a robot on it!” “Brilliant!”
May 4th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Dude, the mushrooms are kicking in and…whoa…
May 4th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I’m pretty sure the book has some robo-sexuality going on, although IIRC, it’s a woman and robot getting it on.
May 4th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Is that Uncle Owen’s farm in the background? And that robot looks oddly familiar . . . Maybe the designer was watching A New Hope while eating those ‘shrooms.
May 4th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Yeah this novel involved a woman having a sexual affair with a male-looking robot. Several other Azimov novels from this period dealt with robosexuality. In this novel there is even a mention to a planet that shows up later in the Foundation series with an entirely robosexual society where all reproduction is artifical.
Still it should be noted that while they are robosexuals but they are not GAY robosexuals, that would just wrong, unnatural, and immoral! Thus this cover is an abomination! (sarcasm activiated!)
I actually don’t have an issue with this cover other than yes the robot is clearly a plagiarized version of CP3O
May 4th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Oh, dude! I read SO MANY Asimov books with this cover style in the early 2000s. Very nostalgic. Also creepy.
May 4th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Yea Zycrow, thus was the style. I think a great cover has somone painted who clearly had to dress up. It’s just… creepy!
May 5th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Hunk – “Why can’t I quit you?”
Robot – “How…about… a… nice… game of chess?”
May 5th, 2011 at 4:26 am
Somehow it reminds me of this one:
http://library2.usask.ca/srsd/pulps/full/song_of_the-F.jpg
May 5th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
“Oh god, what happened last night? Let’s see, I had a couple beers, then ordered my robot butler to give me a sponge bath…”
May 10th, 2011 at 1:11 am
Yet it’s still better than the prequels. You know what I’m talking about.
May 16th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
@ Brian B: yes, the robot is clearly a plagiarized version of CP3O, but C3PO is also a plagiarized version of the robot from Metropolis:
http://thedilettantista.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/metropolis-maria-robot.jpg
So we have a copy of a copy.
The first artist goes out and paints from life. The second artist copies the first artist. The third artist copies the second artist. (I’ve usually seen this analogy applies to fantasy, with Tolkien as the first artist.) The first artist put things in because there were there, or in the case of SF, because they were new cool speculation. The second artist put them in because they were trying to get close to the first. The third artist put them in because heck, that’s what you put in.
June 21st, 2011 at 3:44 am
If someone told me this was for a cover of Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker by a nartist who had somehow never seen the film, posters or merchandise, I;’d beleive them.
That’s quite possible by the way; the book came out before the film.
July 9th, 2014 at 1:13 am
I have a feeling the trees are trying to flee the scene…
January 11th, 2016 at 2:30 am
Actually it is a robot hunter on safari posing with its latest human trophy which should make a nice rug.