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Bibliomancer Comments: Let me flash your BIOS big fella!
Published 1964
(Average: 6.16 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Let me flash your BIOS big fella!
Published 1964
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January 25th, 2016 at 11:51 am
HAL 9000 called and he wants his eye back!
January 25th, 2016 at 11:51 am
“Okay — for my reward I want… yarn! All the yarn in the Universe!”
January 25th, 2016 at 12:14 pm
THIS looks like a ‘Fantastic 4’ movie I can get into!
January 25th, 2016 at 12:54 pm
@A.R.Yngve “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t see that.”
January 25th, 2016 at 3:13 pm
Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. laugh at girly man who need laser. World need Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. movie. Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. need work.
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Swim fin feet? Really?
January 25th, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Human wields chemical laser; giant robot only has bloody great claws.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:25 pm
It seems there is a shortcoming to this security robot: It does not have a gun, and thus cannot shoot back at the intruder, only flail at him with its sharp claws. I smell a design flaw.
Unless, of course, this robot was repurposed from the loading dock to serve as security. Which is very likely in this case.
January 25th, 2016 at 5:31 pm
It’s not these guys that our heroic spaceman needs to worry about, but the giant bowling ball robot heading his way.
January 25th, 2016 at 6:04 pm
@AR, 2: I thought that the blurb meant that you get to GIVE the robot menace a name. Like Virgil, or Stephanie, or something.
What I want to know is, if this is 4, where are the other three?
January 25th, 2016 at 6:22 pm
@DSWBT – #3 is dead on the ground, #2 is falling over and #1 is far off in the lower right.
Considering how fast the right claw is moving, the spaceman soon won’t be around to deal with #5.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Robot has a bit of a combover going on…
OMG – Robotic Homer Simpson!
January 25th, 2016 at 10:57 pm
The original title was “The Junkyard Planet”…That sounds like a VERY different story than “The Cosmic Computer.”
PR man: We’ve changed your title.
Author: But it’s about a planet that’s a junkyard. That’s not very cosmic.
PR man: You want this published or not?
January 25th, 2016 at 11:03 pm
@B’Mancer: Wouldn’t it be hilarious if they were 1, 2, 4 and 5, and the spaceman wasted time looking for a #3 that didn’t exist!
January 26th, 2016 at 12:52 am
For a reward I’d like one of those H beam pipers as demonstrated on the cover, thanks.
January 26th, 2016 at 1:45 am
For my reward I want a laser that doesn’t make sad clown faces upon impact.
January 26th, 2016 at 2:31 am
@THX1138: Jamie claimed to have seen an H. Beam Piper, but he was delirious then and thankfully got better.
January 26th, 2016 at 3:33 am
@Perry Armstrong: You really did see a different ‘Moonbase’ from everyone else http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10978#comments
January 26th, 2016 at 4:39 am
“Danger Will Robinson Danger!”
January 26th, 2016 at 5:53 am
Looking at the robot’s knees, a more effective weapon might be a gargantuan flathead screwdriver.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:28 pm
The Homer-Bot is going to grab the spaceman by the neck and snarl, “Why, you little…”
January 29th, 2016 at 11:20 pm
Pow! right in the I/O!
February 2nd, 2016 at 2:54 pm
I LOVE Valigursky! Wish he would have been more prolific in Sci-Fi.
February 3rd, 2016 at 7:47 am
So… Is this the original inspiration for the new Star Wars light saber?
February 26th, 2016 at 11:18 pm
Gives a new meaning to ‘running Crysis’ 😉
February 27th, 2016 at 4:06 am
@Bibliomancer—why would the robots attack in reverse order? What do those numbers signify anyway? How did #3 manage to get himself killed before #4? Do you think #2 is falling over because those ridiculous fin feet don’t seem to bend? Who do you think designed their armor which, while providing the safest clavicles in the universe, leaves the vital midsection completely exposed? This has to be the the most challenged robot death squad ever to go out on patrol.
February 29th, 2016 at 8:55 am
@B.Chiclitz: Well, the design idea may have originally been that when the robot falls down, it can simply retract its legs to become egg-shaped, push itself upright with those weak, noodly arms and simply stand up again. Doesn’t seem like a particularly good choice, but hey, what do I know?
And then some artist went and updated the design to make it look sleeker and more modern. So, now the model of the fallen robot on the background not only isn’t armored in the midriff but can’t get back up.
June 25th, 2019 at 6:30 pm
BB8 goes over to the Dark Side.