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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: Invading Earth by thought control? Get in line behind the Angry Espers, Psionic Menaces and Communipaths.
Published 1953
(Average: 5.40 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Invading Earth by thought control? Get in line behind the Angry Espers, Psionic Menaces and Communipaths.
Published 1953
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:14 pm
When the main selling point for your novel is that it is “The Complete Book” you know you have marketing issues. I’ve always assumed it was a minimum expectation that entire pages wouldn’t be missing.
April 19th, 2016 at 12:30 pm
This is one of those 50s spaceships without an engine. In the days before NASA there must have been some smooth-talking spaceship salesmen.
April 19th, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Original title was ‘Wine Of The Dreamers’.
Back cover.
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German language version. WTF.
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I hope the rope isn’t how you get in and out of yon spaceship.
April 19th, 2016 at 1:47 pm
You’re never alone with a Strand. Although you may have to walk half a mile away from everyone else so they won’t breathe second hand smoke.
April 19th, 2016 at 1:50 pm
Goodness, it’s ‘the complete book’! I bought the incomplete book, which only made it as far as the fellow lighting up his cigarette in the high-oxygen environment…did anything important happen after that?
April 19th, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Er, lower right corner. Does that gentleman have a petrol pump perched on his penis?
April 19th, 2016 at 2:04 pm
Good thing he brought a 100-foot coil of rope. An astronaut should always carry plenty of rope. Just in case.
April 19th, 2016 at 2:46 pm
“Inhabitants of another planet invade Earth by thought control” – could have saved themselves the trouble and just become the editor of a tabloid newspaper.
That’s satire folks!
April 19th, 2016 at 4:45 pm
Is he covering up his mouth in horror, or lighting a cigarette?
April 19th, 2016 at 5:44 pm
@ Anna T: I think he’s musing, with the hand over the mouth to cue the voice-over. Probably something like: it must be an oxygen atmosphere or I couldn’t open my face-plate or light a match. But something’s wrong. Maybe there’s something in the air making me too stupid to blow out the match as it burns my fingers. Perhaps this world’s air contains some kind of gas that makes me spend all my mental effort in thinking this voice-over rather than shouting ‘Ow!’ and letting go of the match. I recall something similar happening to me when I was a boy in Plotline Creek, Iowa, and I tried to impress Betty Lou over a milk-shake at Old Man Bradbury’s drug-store…
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ROD SERLING: Presented for your consideration: John Player, Astronaut and pioneer. He was the first man on Mercury but by no means the first visitor to… the Twilight Zone.
April 19th, 2016 at 8:15 pm
The Marlboro Man had a short-lived “Smoking On The Final Frontier” campaign, but it bombed.
April 19th, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Inhalants of another planet invade Earth by psychological addiction
PLANET OF THE DUNHILLS
April 20th, 2016 at 4:12 am
Clearly this is an astronaut wannabe who stole an old sea-diving costume and is just pretending. Lighting that cigarette sort of gives him away. Maybe the real astronaut is under mind control and is thus unavailable. Is he going to be mad when he wakes up and finds someone took all his rope!
April 20th, 2016 at 1:21 pm
@happybookworm- Au contrair! This is from the 50s when astronauts were REAL men! A pair of tan work coveralls, a zippy lighter and a pack of Lucky Strikes were all that a manly man requires to do any manly activities. Wear some sissy shiny atmosphere suit? HA! As if. In fact, he wouldn’t even be wearing the open face fishbowl helmet were it not required to demonstrate that he is indeed in space.
“Oxygen? Who needs oxygen when you have the smooth rich flavor of Lucky Strikes.”
April 20th, 2016 at 4:00 pm
He better not be too full of pioneer spirit.
April 20th, 2016 at 4:53 pm
That rope is pure hemp, Colorado grade, woven from flowering tops. It’s what he uses to roll those “cigarettes.” That’s how we end up with a planet full of dreamers who actually think you can mount an invasion by thoughts alone.
April 20th, 2016 at 5:07 pm
@ B. Chiclitz – [Mind Blown!]
April 20th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
@BC: and a happy 4/20 to you too, sir! 😉
April 20th, 2016 at 5:59 pm
@Tat Wood: Two thumbs up!
April 20th, 2016 at 6:59 pm
@B’Mance, @DSWBT—gentlemen, you are kind.
April 21st, 2016 at 10:10 am
Cheech and Chong’s Planet?