Aug 04
SteveAsat Comments: I can overlook an Apple II case with a Commodore PET monitor being used to visually indicate “hey kids, computers!” And the Escheresque architecture suggesting a suburban three-bedroom rendered in granite. But how the hell did that cat get up there and why isn’t he sliding off?!
Published 1980
(Average: 6.93 out of 10)
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August 4th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Isn’t that Uri Geller ?
August 4th, 2011 at 10:30 am
If ever there was a man caught looking at “specialist” websites, its this guy.
August 4th, 2011 at 10:45 am
“To save the future they must change the past — and lose the present”
The 1985-model computer was a present? Definitely they should lose it.
August 4th, 2011 at 10:48 am
You would have thought that by the second upon a time we’d all have the idea. But no, they had to go thrice.
August 4th, 2011 at 11:02 am
I think the cat is trying to get away from the miniature dog perched on top of his head.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Agree about the cover.
It’s a pretty decent book, though – “near future SF” at the time it was written, which puts it in our past now if I remember right. It’s been a while since I read it.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Have you never owned a cat? Finding a cat somewhere it shouldn’t be able to get to is par for the course.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Is that another cat on the bannister?
August 4th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
“The mouse…where did the mouse go off to?”
August 4th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
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August 4th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Evil Lord: All you have to do to save the world is use that computer.
Man: EASY! I’ll just…. HEY…. where’s my graphical interface?
Evil Lord: MU HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!
August 4th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
That armor has some wacky proportions and why did Bruce Campbell pose for this cover?
August 9th, 2011 at 10:39 am
“An exciting new novel by James P. Hogan”…
Dazzling copy from the wizards of the Marketing Department! And don’t say publishers don’t work themselves to the bone for authors!
August 10th, 2011 at 1:36 am
Maxwell’s (the cat) ability to show up in unexpected places was a plot point.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Considering the novel was published in 1980, that was about how computers looked then. I used to own a copy of that paperback, bought in the mid 80’s, and never had a problem with the image.
August 12th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Cats have really good balance. It could stay up there if it wanted.
September 14th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Blame the author: the protagonist, shown in cover actually looking like the description, worked in his grandfather’s Scottish castle. And the cat, Maxwell, really could have gotten up there. IIRC there’s a scene where he gets caught inside that armor.
December 3rd, 2013 at 7:12 am
“George!! Are you down there drawing dirty pictures with ASCII signs again?”
“No, Mom!! I’m just doing my BASIC homework, honest!”
April 12th, 2014 at 1:17 pm
soo..let me get this straight. To save the future I must lose the present in the past to get back to the future? Who is the present for? Why are there cats? Are the cats the present? I have to lose cats? In the future? Can’t we just say that I’ll do it later and leave it at that?
February 9th, 2017 at 2:24 pm
‘Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…’
February 10th, 2017 at 5:06 am
Did this time predicament leave him with someone else’s hands? They look the wrong size and from someone decades older. Maybe he had to swap hands with his future self.
February 10th, 2017 at 6:24 am
At the end of the book they are specifically asked to add a 100Mb hard drive for a big message to come from the future, which appears a bit more advanced than the model shown could cope with.
Considering the artist seems to have some skill, why do the proportions of everything seem so wrong?
August 30th, 2017 at 12:06 am
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