Jul 27
GSS ex-noob Comments: Editor’s 12 year old: See, he’s got a long arm, and he smokes, and it’s in spaaace!
Published 1979
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(Average: 7.47 out of 10)
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GSS ex-noob Comments: Editor’s 12 year old: See, he’s got a long arm, and he smokes, and it’s in spaaace!
Published 1979
You might remember this from here
(Average: 7.47 out of 10)Loading...
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July 27th, 2017 at 11:20 am
1970s late night discussion TV shows: the novel. This week: OPEC!
July 27th, 2017 at 11:22 am
Ryan Reynolds, in his greatest role, playing Ryan Gosling playing Gil Hamilton
July 27th, 2017 at 11:29 am
You can’t see it, because the cover’s cropped, but he’s seated on the Long Ram of Gil Hamilton.
July 27th, 2017 at 11:31 am
His hair looks like something left untouched at a potluck luncheon.
July 27th, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Gill Hamilton reach into the brain and find out the truth before killing your friend. Don’t use your long arm to choke them
July 27th, 2017 at 1:30 pm
This is actually the coolest cover ever. We all just aren’t cool enough to get it.
July 27th, 2017 at 2:21 pm
The long face of Gil Hamilton’s more like it.
July 27th, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Alt Text: “With a long enough arm he could reach into a man’s brian… through his ass!”
HEY HEY HEY. You don’t touch a man’s brian!
July 27th, 2017 at 2:57 pm
I’ll leave the ‘short arm inspection’ quip for somebody who really wants to go there.
July 27th, 2017 at 4:00 pm
It’s hard to make out, but I think his shirt reads: “Any literary merit is purely accidental.”
July 27th, 2017 at 5:34 pm
I can never remember, is this Beavis or Butthead?
July 27th, 2017 at 5:49 pm
He’s so cool, he’s wearing a shirt with one sleeve longer than the other, and has an inexplicable rash on the back of his left hand. And yet, both his arms are the same length!
July 27th, 2017 at 6:06 pm
Best I can make it out, that T-shirt reads “I’m with stupid” with an arrow pointing to the artist signature.
July 27th, 2017 at 7:32 pm
@Bibliomancer—Maybe it reads: “Why the Long Face? Ask me!”
July 27th, 2017 at 7:48 pm
Why the long and angry Face? Isn’t yellow a strange color for hair?Did that spinning saturan skilled yellow on your hair and tshirt?
July 28th, 2017 at 1:30 am
FINALLY, my sufferings during the festive season are rewarded! Although I’m sad it only rates a 7.00.
I do apologize for the bad quality photo. I have a non-smartphone. Not that it matters much with this cover. See here. http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/ab/THLNGRMFGL1976.jpg
I couldn’t make out what the added handwriting on the cover said at the time, but I thought it gave more WTF (who inscribes a gift book on the COVER?).
Planets! Futuristic computer font! Wild colors!
This cover, I’ll bet, was described as groovy and far-out.
Your comments are spot-on and better than what I thought when looking at it. Thanks, all.
I’ve read this book, and looked at the two covers here, and I don’t recall any talk in the book about him having odd head-coverings or a lack of fashion sense. He’s a plainclothes cop.
July 28th, 2017 at 1:35 am
@GSSXN – Nobody commented on the fact that there are links to TWO different covers on the post. One to a blowup of the cover with the gift inscription. One to a more hi-res clean cover. (BTW my original email was to ask if you could reshoot the cover but I decided looking through the old submissions that the mystery t-shirt was worthy of a post in and of itself).
July 28th, 2017 at 1:59 am
@TW: 99% sure the word was “Resemblance” (yes, inappropriate caps) and the 3rd line was completely illegible after years of kicking around.
And yet they still want two bucks for it.
I looked inside and there was no inscription on the inside cover, title page, or any of the usual spots.
If I get back there and they still have it, I’ll try again. By now it might have been recycled, or packaged up in a “Take these 20 books for $3, PLEASE!” deal.
July 28th, 2017 at 11:57 am
If it were not for that “futuristic” typeface, this would not be identifiable as a science fiction book.
July 28th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
@Alessandra – I believe that font is called Check Routing Number
July 29th, 2017 at 2:59 am
@B’mancer: If it isn’t, it ought to be. That’s the only place it’s ever used nowadays. Of course, in 1979, it fairly screamed “FUTURE!”
But the “art” and title could just as easily be for any genre: politics, noir, some sort of jet-setting cool guy, an angsty young man on a roadtrip of self-discovery.
@Alessandra: I guess the ringed planet is a nod to SF as well.
July 31st, 2017 at 12:20 pm
@GSSxn #21: This could only be SF because the man on the cover – he has a transparent arm! Aieee!!!
August 1st, 2017 at 7:23 am
@THX: Could be fantasy or horror; might be a ghost arm. Transparent arm + ringed planet = SF.
September 8th, 2019 at 10:26 am
I just can’t fathom that in the year 1979, the publishers were unable to find an artist capable of drawing A FRICKIN’ PLANET.