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SteveAsat Comments: A thrilling last-minute escape from the Queens of Mercury! “Can you do the fandango? Then you shall DIE, Earthman!”
Published 1981
(Average: 7.31 out of 10)
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SteveAsat Comments: A thrilling last-minute escape from the Queens of Mercury! “Can you do the fandango? Then you shall DIE, Earthman!”
Published 1981
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June 24th, 2011 at 11:02 am
“Oh, wait, was she a great big fat genetic time-bomb person?”
June 24th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Nice brooch she, er, they are wearing.
June 24th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
EDITOR: I’m sorry, Mr Foster, the reading public just won’t know what a morphodite is. For that matter, neither do I. What is it?
FOSTER: It’s a sort of genetic…time-bomb… person.
EDITOR: Ah, then that shall be the subtitle!
June 24th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I can’t tell which is wackier, the cover or the subtitle.
June 24th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Gernade!
June 24th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Wonder what Whelan would have done with blond hair instead of black and would ABBA have sued as a result.
June 24th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
I don’t yhink english was th subtitler’s first language.
If subtitler is an actual job.
June 24th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Do we have a tag for lens flare, or is that too much like a ting?
June 25th, 2011 at 1:37 am
Regeneration gone horribly wrong–Sarah Jane Smith must find the real Dr. Who in “The Genetic Time-Bomb Person!”
June 25th, 2011 at 10:42 am
A “genetic time-bomb person”? So if you ask them the wrong question on your first date, they flounce out and everyone within a 50-mile radius dies of leukemia?
June 25th, 2011 at 10:44 am
INHERITED leukemia! This is not a genetic atomic-bomb person we are speaking of!
June 25th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Ooh, yes, can we have a Lens Flare tag, please? Not as exciting as TING! but equally common on SF covers since the invention of Photoshop.
June 25th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I can’t make up my mind whether the face on the left is Terence Stamp or Arthur Mullard.
June 27th, 2011 at 9:16 am
I mean come on, they maybe a four headed mutant or Genetic Time-Bomb person, but at least they could smile for their photo.
June 27th, 2011 at 9:18 am
Lens flare done! A long forgotten tag now resurrected 🙂
June 27th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
#7 – Of course it’s an actual job! My grandfather worked at a subtitle factory for forty years. He was the president of the local chapter of the subtitlers’ guild. He used to tell me “Tommy Noir, always remember: subtitling is an honest day’s work for a young career person.”
July 3rd, 2011 at 12:55 am
I stand corrected. I hope you didnit take his advice though, ‘cos it’s clearly all done abroad now.
July 8th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Sing along, folks:
Is this a real book
or is this a fantasy?
caught in an art mess
a lame escape from reality…
July 10th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
You would be grumpy too if you lived half your life under a big black cloak in somebody’s armpit waiting for your turn to drive the spaceship.
July 19th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
After the genetic time-bomb person blew up, he actually blew up to form Siamese-quintuplets all attached at the head…They are now known as “the genetic time-bomb people”.
May 15th, 2013 at 10:49 am
hey, this book was actually a pretty good read! I bought it BECAUSE of this cover!
May 15th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Yesss! A victory for Morphocover!
July 2nd, 2016 at 1:58 pm
‘Well, Doctor? What’s the diagnosis then?’
‘You seem to be suffering from the Morphodite, sir…ma’am…er…one of you is suffering, anyway.’
July 2nd, 2016 at 4:22 pm
Get up every morning, fading me head, sir
So that every man can be red
Ohhh Ohhh the Morphodite
August 18th, 2020 at 12:32 am
Um…maybe their ‘r’s are in the wrong place?
November 5th, 2020 at 12:58 am
Is “person” really the optimal term for a blurb?
Seems sort of general, along the lines of, “A dangerous thing arose in the place!” Evocative!
December 12th, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Dr Who’s 100th regeneration went a little pear shaped.
December 12th, 2021 at 7:33 pm
“Morphodite” = pansexual hermaphrodite? Mightier Aphrodite? Capt Kirk’s lesser known “Morphodite Manoeuvre”? A new iron ore found only on Mars? One wonders…
December 12th, 2021 at 7:36 pm
…and I didn’t see that @Jane had already beat me to the Dr Who allusion. By a decade. I feel like such a Morphodite.
December 12th, 2021 at 7:48 pm
Q: What is a “Genetic time-bomb person”?
A: It could be…
– A man who used to work in Chernobyl joins a church that permits polygamy
– Donald Trump marries another Eastern European blonde
– Jussie Smollett, in another desperate attempt to get PR, claims to have been attacked by MAGA rednecks who threw “genetic time-bombs” at him (i.e. alarm clocks painted fluorescent green).
December 13th, 2021 at 4:37 am
@ARY: A: it’s what you get Trump and Jussie Smollett both marry an Eastern European blonde in Chernobyl….. oh, sorry, that’s a genetic mash-up person. My mistake.
December 20th, 2023 at 9:28 pm
This cover brings up a most important question. Has Doctor Who begun to regenerate expotentially? The Amoeba Doctor arc.
December 20th, 2023 at 9:59 pm
@Fred: Talkin’ ’bout Bi-generation? (Or is that the wrong Who?)
Maybe it’ll get like Whicker Island and everyone in the universe will be the Doctor.
December 20th, 2023 at 11:34 pm
@Tat: That’s like the time everyone on Earth turned into the Simm Master.
@fred: We’ve had bi-generation after 60 years, but things are speedier nowadays, so maybe 15-20 years till quad-generation arrives?
December 21st, 2023 at 12:49 am
@fred: “If something isn’t done, in a few days we’ll be up to our necks in Who.”
December 21st, 2023 at 7:49 am
@Bruce: There’ll be so many of them it’ll be positively Seussian.
December 21st, 2023 at 1:19 pm
I think I want a wall clock with those four faces on it for Xmas.
December 21st, 2023 at 10:25 pm
I think I’m not visiting your house.
Besides, as a GENETIC TIME-BOMB, would it even show the correct time, or would it hit a certain hour and blow up?