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Published 1977
Many thanks to Darren for sending this in!
(Average: 8.19 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Sir! How do we stop this robot plague!?! Unplug them from the wall?! That’s… well… yeah ok then.
Published 1977
Many thanks to Darren for sending this in!
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July 4th, 2013 at 9:22 am
So.. the title refers to “death dolls”, the cover art depicts (half of) a robot and whoever wrote the blurb seems think the enemy is killer fungus.
Trying to keep us guessing, are they?
July 4th, 2013 at 9:41 am
Robot sit-ups.
July 4th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Need a quote for your book cover? Why bother plucking misleading sentence fragments out of actual reviews? Just invent your own!
July 4th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
“See inside for full robotic pelvic thrust.”
July 4th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
First we had a 3D cover, now we have one with built-in loudspeaker grilles? Will they stop at nothing? Or is this one of those newfangled “e-books”?
Rocking out to Death Dolls of Lyra feat. André the Android.
The sparks coming from that wall plug are a touch of genius.
July 4th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
The smug look on the face of that… er… ‘being’ is magnificent. And cursory investigation indicates that the robot, the fungus, and the dolls of death are connected. Deeply.
BUT HOW, I ask you, HOW???
July 4th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Yes this does remind me of Ray Bradbury. What was that temperature I needed to burn this book? Can I borrow your lighter?
July 4th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Plug in, kick back, and let the good times roll.
July 4th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
@Tag Wizard. I don’t know what your investigations turned up, but all I could find was this:
At first the growth seemed a little more than a fungus which could be treated in the ordinary way. But the two toy dolls which apparently had caused the infection were breeding places of some alien contamination that would spread from animal to man – to the entire countryside. The dolls had come from somewhere out of this galaxy. somewhere from out of this galaxy there were beings no larger than dolls. somewhere from out of this galaxy there was launched an infesstation [sic] that would spread like the plague from continent to continent. Was this madness without reason? was there anyone left who was sane enough to reason?
July 4th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Wow. This cover, that summary. Man, it is like totally blowing my mind. I mean, look at the robot, man. He’s like C3PO, only like if he was an actual stereo man. Look it,man, he’s got like the reel to reel and everything. And dolls, from like a galaxy where…beings are the…size of dolls! Whooooaa. That, that is like deep man. Amd of course they wanna totally kill us, cuz like dolls are freakin’ creepy. And then there is the fungus. Heh heh. Humungus fungus among us, man I love that. But you know it’s all gonna be cool. See, the robot man, look at him. You know he parties. He’s got the best spacegrass man, Jesus on the dashboard, whenever it feels right. The robot is tellin’ us man, yeah, it’s cool man. Yeah.
Wonder if that conversation, or a close simulation, took place back in 1977. Besides in my older brothers room.
July 4th, 2013 at 3:47 pm
@Rachel J. I do hope that was the back cover pitch, because it’s amazing. Or maybe my blood sugar’s too low. Either way, sold.
July 4th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
In the field of Apocalyptic Fiction the award for Least Effective Cover goes to…’Death Dolls of Lyra’! Let’s hear it folks!
Look down at the blurb.
Look up at the artwork.
Look down at the blurb.
Look up at the artwork.
Terrified yet?
July 4th, 2013 at 5:46 pm
I’m waiting for someone to write DEATH DOLLS OF LYCRA.
July 4th, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Google…Death Dolls of Lyra…images…good show sir….my little pony? WTF?…Lyra Heartstrings?…Google…mlp.wikia link…OK …seems innocuous enough…hell of a lot of info here for a cartoon character, behold the power of wiki…comments section…browse…browse…browse… “Me before Background Pony fic: Ha! What a pretty pony! Limy green, a bon-bon side-kick, a unique human sitting style, CUTE! Meme worthy!
AFTER Background Pony fic: I….. I…. I….. Words cannot express this philosophical musician…. for she acheives the new true meaning of life…. charishes frienship, love, selflessness, and most of all… the FEEL of the soul of music. She’s been through a lonesome journey of self-discovory and deserve to leave a hoof print on this beautiful world of ours…. called “Earth”.
For I too, now know the meaning of life…. through her outstanding wisdom of words. Her meaningless, and paradoxically at the same time meaningful…. words. She truely understands the concepts of love and loneliness, as I can see and feel through her eyes… Her terrible…. yet beautiful… Life…
As a Background Pony.
Lyra…… would you marry me?”… flees in horror back to the safety of bad book cover land…
July 4th, 2013 at 7:14 pm
@fred 14—it’s cool, man, you’re just peaking, it’ll chill down in a few minutes. We’re all here, reality is solid, see? Touch the walls, the keyboard, read @Fear 10, he understands, he’ll talk you down. It’s just a touch of fungus, bro’.
July 4th, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury in that it is written in English.
July 4th, 2013 at 8:25 pm
It’s the Independence Day holiday here in the States, so I would like to give a shout out to a book cover appropriate for the 4th of July.
July 5th, 2013 at 2:42 am
@Bibliomancer: I think it’s a holiday in the U.K. as well. Isn’t it “Good Riddance You Rude Ungrateful Bastards, You Just Fight The Indians Yourselves You Wankers,” Day? Can’t quite find the cover that embodies that though. Any suggestions?
July 5th, 2013 at 4:45 am
@FoM — How about this one.
July 5th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
@Bibliomancer; That works quite nicely. I knew if there was an appropriate cover, you would be the one to know.
July 5th, 2013 at 8:57 pm
@Fear—I knew the ‘Mancer would find an appropriate cover. All I could come up with was HRH QE II’s Diamond Jubilee Photo Album. But I did want to ask, are you sure you want to imply that you folks didn’t spend a bit of time fighting “Indians” also?
Anyway, good to see the whole “hands across the water” thing still holding up after all these years, even if we can ultimately blame you for the existence of Canada.
July 6th, 2013 at 12:53 am
@B.Chiclitz: Actually I live here on the uncivilized side of yhe old ponde as well. My ancestors are Irish Traveller and Arcadian. Two marginalized groups for the price of one! Let me point out for our Brit friends, NOT a pikey. Thanks kindly.
July 6th, 2013 at 1:01 am
ACADIAN, not Arcadian. My ancestors weren’t from Greece.
They’re from Canada. Yup, eh? The part of Canada that doesn’t like Canada.
They were strange people. Thank God none of that got passed down..ehh.
July 6th, 2013 at 3:45 am
@FoM—well, please forgive the error. The cadence and syntax somehow bespoke the olde country if not the auld sod. I well know those parts of Canada that don’t like Canada. I could tell a few stories of Montreal in the 70s, but as Marlowe so well put it, “But that was in another country, and besides . . . .”
Anyway, I digress; back to bad SF covers!! Good Show, Sir!!
July 6th, 2013 at 4:10 am
@B.Chiclitz… so, was it you who killed the wench or someone else?
July 6th, 2013 at 4:40 am
@Tat—well, I spoke figuratively. I should have made that clearer, or added “to me.”
July 7th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
‘Now, ROB. Can you show us on Death Doll of Lyra where he /poked you?’
July 8th, 2013 at 10:32 am
C3PO’s off-brand cousin had dreams of being an erotic dancer, and occasionally, after the shop closes and everyone goes home, he pretends he has hips with which to gyrate furiously, and also that he wouldn’t make everyone run screaming in terror.
August 6th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
I’m surprised no one has done this yet. I guess it’s up to me then.
“Heyyyy….Macarena!”
November 9th, 2013 at 11:09 pm
According to Wikipaedia, this is the same author of The Real Encounter, also on this site. She used the pseudonym for many of her works.
November 10th, 2013 at 12:51 am
Many of which belong right here. See for yourself: http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/285197.J_Hunter_Holly
November 10th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Well done, detectives. Diligence noted and tags merged.