Dead Stuff’s on the nose: a terrifically paranoid book about identity but with a plot-engine that looks silly when depicted. The film’s a fascinating mess, too.
The trouble is, I can’t think of a better way to convey what’s in the book than this and anything else, with a title like that, would risk the worst excesses of 70s Penguin SF cover-crimes.
πΌ π΅π΅πΈ You can’t hide your googly eyes
Your sci-fi suit is just a thin disguise
I wish the artist would realize
There ain’t no way to hide those googly eyes
πΆπΆ
This would have been a good, sinister cover if the robot face didn’t have that ridiculous little frown and beady eyes. I think in the novel it had no features at all, hence the “Who?” of the title.
August 28th, 2017 at 1:00 pm
The? Fuck?
August 28th, 2017 at 1:05 pm
Whence?
August 28th, 2017 at 1:13 pm
How?
August 28th, 2017 at 1:32 pm
Why?
August 28th, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Where?
Liked the movie, even with a career down turning Elliot Gould.
https://hiddenfilms.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/who_luomo_dai_due_volti_elliott_gould_jack_gold_005_jpg_zcdw.jpg
August 28th, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Who made who?
August 28th, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Is that his mouth or nose?
August 28th, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Does he have a little mask shoved down the front of his trousers, or…?
August 28th, 2017 at 2:08 pm
That is one well dressed emoji.
August 28th, 2017 at 2:21 pm
The Italian version is subtitled L’Uomo Dai Due Volti. If that’s face one, I’d hate to see face two.
August 28th, 2017 at 2:33 pm
Who saved who?
August 28th, 2017 at 2:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz #9 – π Good Show Sir! π
August 28th, 2017 at 2:36 pm
Who saved whom!
August 28th, 2017 at 2:52 pm
Who Are You?
August 28th, 2017 at 2:58 pm
Don’t think much of Jodie’s new outfit. Needs a scarf or something.
August 28th, 2017 at 3:14 pm
I have to admit I only read this because the cover was so trashy; turned out that the book was anything but.
August 28th, 2017 at 4:27 pm
Dead Stuff’s on the nose: a terrifically paranoid book about identity but with a plot-engine that looks silly when depicted. The film’s a fascinating mess, too.
The trouble is, I can’t think of a better way to convey what’s in the book than this and anything else, with a title like that, would risk the worst excesses of 70s Penguin SF cover-crimes.
August 28th, 2017 at 4:44 pm
Hi! My name is (who?)
My name is (who?)
My name is not
Slim Shady
Hi! My name is (who?)
My name is (who?)
My name is not
Slim Shady…
August 28th, 2017 at 4:50 pm
I have a terrific idea! Someone, pray bring me a pumpkin, two googly eyes and a knife…
August 28th, 2017 at 4:55 pm
@AR Yngve: An Eminem reference on GSS? Begone, philistine!
August 28th, 2017 at 5:25 pm
πΌ π΅π΅πΈ
You can’t hide your googly eyes
Your sci-fi suit is just a thin disguise
I wish the artist would realize
There ain’t no way to hide those googly eyes
πΆπΆ
August 28th, 2017 at 5:35 pm
Who’s on first …
August 28th, 2017 at 5:54 pm
@THX-1138: You must be mistaken, sir. Clearly, what we have here is someone trying to impersonate the Doctor – very, very badly.
August 28th, 2017 at 6:22 pm
@Anna T: who?
August 28th, 2017 at 7:05 pm
If only those evil Soviet scientists had given him a HAPPY mouth, the cover would’ve been so much nicer…
August 28th, 2017 at 7:40 pm
He’s looking for the man who stole his robo-pinky.
August 28th, 2017 at 11:38 pm
This would have been a good, sinister cover if the robot face didn’t have that ridiculous little frown and beady eyes. I think in the novel it had no features at all, hence the “Who?” of the title.
August 29th, 2017 at 1:32 am
who?
Algis Budrys
that’s who
August 29th, 2017 at 4:07 am
Ha! The husband has it in this very cover and my first reaction was “What?”
Who’s Zooming Who?
It’s actually a pretty good little paranoid thriller, and the cover is an accurate depiction.
BC(9) every girl’s crazy ’bout a sharp dressed pixel.
I really must go through our bookshelves and see how much GSS-worthy stuff we have.
August 31st, 2017 at 2:17 pm
I think he’s trying to impersonate a cyclopse….that’s who.
September 2nd, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Who…invented that robotic hand?
September 2nd, 2017 at 4:22 pm
I knew I’d seen him before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X21OJhiSV8
The Tyrone Slothrop/Elton John crossover we all demanded.