Feb 26
Tom Noir Comments: Free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime?!? I’m going to order a dozen of these things!
Published 1980
Tom Noir Comments: Free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime?!? I’m going to order a dozen of these things!
Published 1980
February 26th, 2018 at 11:12 am
This is what happens if you keep your Christmas decorations up past 12th Night.
February 26th, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Incoming!!!
February 26th, 2018 at 12:58 pm
Wait, weren’t we promised flying cars? I know I was dying for one.
February 26th, 2018 at 1:21 pm
Avon calling!
February 26th, 2018 at 1:26 pm
They weren’t ‘called back’, Trump kicked them out.
February 26th, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Dr. Caligari sure needs a lot of cabinets.
February 26th, 2018 at 4:25 pm
Mormon headquarters dispatches another wave of missionaries.
February 26th, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Why call them back from heaven? Why not just text them?
February 26th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Think of the roaming charges.
February 26th, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Well . . . cemeteries certainly have changed in the future, haven’t they?
February 26th, 2018 at 6:31 pm
We don’t get whizz-lines on ‘proper’ illustrations so we can’t tell if these corpsicles are whooshing out from the pumice ziggurat or being aimed at it with such precision that each goes into a specific, designated hole.
I hope I get the latter when it’s my turn.
February 26th, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Good to see they’ve found a new use for those old IBM mainframe punch cards.
February 26th, 2018 at 7:52 pm
This cover would be vastly improved with a little punctuation variation.
1. Get rid of that stupid rhetorical question as the title.
2. Get rid of Heinlein’s overblown praise and turn it into a dig.
Revision suggestion:
Why, Call Them Back from Heaven!
Clifford D. Simak
TO READ SCIENCE FICTION IS TO READ SIMAK?
Robert Heinlein
February 26th, 2018 at 10:12 pm
@B. Chiclitz – That blurb makes no sense as it is. I can understand “to read Simak is to read science fiction”. But “to read science fiction is to read Simak” means every damn sci-fi story I read is going to sound like They Walked Like Men.
February 27th, 2018 at 3:59 am
Are they coming down from heaven, or flying up to the top of the ziggurat/Mormon temple? Is there some sort of multi-barreled projectile weapon flinging them up, or is the tower exploding them out?
Is the uniformity of the glass coffins and mummy wraps indicative that only one sort of people get called up or down? And who uses glass coffins outside of Snow White’s dwarfs? Why are the coffins so long and flat; did “them” get squished in the process?
Did Esteves miss “vanishing point day” at UAI? Did Heinlein get his phrase order mixed up, or was he deliberately talking like Yoda? WTF, Avon Books?
These, and many other questions will not be answered tomorrow (or any other time) on “Days of Our GSS.”
February 27th, 2018 at 3:35 pm
@Bibliomancer—Thanks for the link. Nice to see those bowling ball heads again. Reminds me of a former life . . . .
February 28th, 2018 at 5:20 am
Why call them back from Heaven? Well, if they want to be actors, they’d better answer those call-backs.
February 28th, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Is this the book that The Good Place is based on?
October 7th, 2019 at 9:40 am
Someday, our descendants will have to deal with the question: “Do we HAVE to thaw out all the douchebag rich guys and politicians who thought future generations wanted them back?”
January 4th, 2024 at 5:33 pm
Why? BECAUSE BARRY MANILOW IN THE U.K.. Stupid question.
January 5th, 2024 at 3:43 am
@ARY: It’s fine — everyone who’s already been frozen for posterity has had all their cell walls ruptured by ice crystals (not to mention weren’t frozen within 4-5 minutes after death), so there’s no bringing them back.
@fred: I think Barry’s probably planning to be buried like a normal person. All that will survive is his plastic surgery implants.
(Seriously, I was flipping through channels before Xmas and he was doing a duet with his 1970s video self, and nobody’s skin is as naturally tight as it was 50 years ago. Yikes. It scared me and I kept flipping.)