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Foster Comments: Doctor, doctor I experience a painful burning sensation when I pass water and I am having nightmares about a science fiction convention I attended in the ’70s.
Published 1971
Foster Comments: Doctor, doctor I experience a painful burning sensation when I pass water and I am having nightmares about a science fiction convention I attended in the ’70s.
Published 1971
March 20th, 2017 at 11:46 am
The paperback I have has a creepier cover. A dude with glowing eyes. Brrr! Meanwhile, the story is all right.
March 20th, 2017 at 11:53 am
Maybe our friends in Oz can tell us if The Currents of Space flow counter-clockwise down under.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:28 pm
Dignity… always dignity.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:30 pm
A very cross Arthur Clarke has materialised on the cover of an Azimov book. The publisher will hear from his lawyer. Is this one of those times when the face of Jesus appears in clouds, or inside a loaf or piece of fruit, or in a stain?
March 20th, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Asmiov, Clarke… I don’t know what everyone is talking about. That’s clearly Muppet Wolverine.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:57 pm
Protip: NEVER ask to use the loo at Dennis Nilsen’s.
March 20th, 2017 at 1:18 pm
What Ewan McGregor saw before plunging in.
March 20th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
An artist admiring his work
March 20th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
Nice cover in honor of The St Patrick’s Day Hangover.
March 20th, 2017 at 3:18 pm
@fred Will people never learn? Don’t drink the green beer!
March 20th, 2017 at 4:18 pm
If I saw an irate man with glasses and beard in my coffee, I probably wouldn’t want to drink it.
And I don’t even drink coffee anyway.
March 20th, 2017 at 5:35 pm
I shall probably regret asking, but…beneath the left leg of the ‘m’. Is that a clitoral hood?
March 20th, 2017 at 5:50 pm
What if Philip Larkin had replaced Jon Pertwee as Dr. Who in the early nineteen seventies?
March 20th, 2017 at 6:05 pm
There’s something deeply unsettling about this… A graphical treatment of Asimov that distracts from his glorious sideburns? This does not sit right with me.
March 20th, 2017 at 6:14 pm
@12: Call yourself a doctor?!
March 20th, 2017 at 9:05 pm
@15: Dammit, THX, I’m a palaeontologist, not a gynaecologist!
March 20th, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Arthur Dent: “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
Ford Prefect: “Tell that to Isaac Asimov.”
March 21st, 2017 at 5:11 am
@Ray P (4): My thought too. It really does look more like Clarke; it’s who I’d have identified it as if shown this without any text. Could someone have mixed up their big-time author photos? We’d have known, as 14 said, if they’d left the sideburns.
@DSWBT: That would then imply that this was an extreme closeup of the chap’s birth, and it must have been painful for Mrs. A (or Mrs. C) what with the glasses.
March 22nd, 2017 at 9:18 am
“Isaac looked deep into his whiskey glass and thought: Maybe I should switch to contact lenses.”
November 30th, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Peering down his clogged drain, Isaac realizes that using Drano backfired.