Jul 23
Margo Comments: “Reggie, stop punching him in the elbow. I don’t think killer robots have a funny bone.”
Published 1981
Margo Comments: “Reggie, stop punching him in the elbow. I don’t think killer robots have a funny bone.”
Published 1981
July 23rd, 2018 at 10:35 am
The sequel to Over the Top was more exciting than anyone could have possibly imagined.
July 23rd, 2018 at 10:41 am
“Stop dancing the robot! I hate that shit.”
July 23rd, 2018 at 1:32 pm
This is the one of the first science fiction novels I ever read – maybe the first. I picked it up as a kid on the basis of the robot on the cover looking kind of like a cross between the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica (the original show, kids) and Baron Karza from the Micronauts. I don’t remember the prose itself anymore, but I do remember that cover.
July 23rd, 2018 at 1:39 pm
Is the robot wearing skinny jeans?
July 23rd, 2018 at 2:54 pm
Foreign robots coming for our wimmin!!!
July 23rd, 2018 at 3:27 pm
So this is Rainbow Brite’s deep dark secret?
July 23rd, 2018 at 3:56 pm
“All your babe are belong to us!”
July 23rd, 2018 at 4:19 pm
‘A dark horde from beyond space’. Ooh, scary. As I recall it, the plot of ‘They Came from Beyond Space’ (the 1967 Milton Subotsky film based on ‘The Gods Hate Kansas’ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11356 ) revealed that the pensioner-grabbing aliens were from the Moon. How this was ‘beyond’ space was never explained.
This robot doesn’t look like Michael Gough but does resemble the bad-bots from Disney’s ‘The Black Hole’. The Gil-Gerard-a-like picked the wrong antagonist for standing-up-arm-wrestling.
July 23rd, 2018 at 4:53 pm
…you do the hokey pokey and…
July 23rd, 2018 at 5:34 pm
Maybe gravity is different “from beyond space”, but the robot’s not in a particularly good fighting stance. Reggie should be able to push him over push him over if he would just extend his arm a little.
July 23rd, 2018 at 7:55 pm
I’m giving the robot the benefit of the doubt on the right arm, but she seems to have no left arm at all.
July 24th, 2018 at 12:08 am
Perilously close to “gibberish title”. Who or what is a Quas Starbrite?
That killer bot looks suspiciously like a Cylon from original BSG, doesn’t it?
I don’t know how bot is holding up damsel, but it must be. Though both of them seem to be missing an arm. Bot’s left leg seems to be disappearing, so dude ought to be able to take it down.
July 24th, 2018 at 5:30 am
@GSSxN – You’re right. At this point this title is more gibberish than “Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets”.
July 24th, 2018 at 5:49 am
Quas. Short for Quarles? Is he Quarles?
I did a quick search, and “Starbrite” is either a supplier of all sorts of cleaning chemicals for your boat, or a dental clinic.
I’m not sure damsel is actually alive. Could be the Quas Barbie Playset.
Starlite, Starbrite, first Quas I see tonight…
Off-topic, here’s another terrible self-published cover, this time in non-fiction. Book 11 of 21. At least the damsel’s a real person.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SAWZPS
July 24th, 2018 at 7:01 pm
It looks like the robot just saved the girl from falling, whilst she was walking in her new heels…She should say thank you to Mr. Robot…Maybe in Japanese.
August 8th, 2018 at 2:15 am
Is that Hugh Jackman? It must be…FearofMuśic
September 14th, 2019 at 1:27 pm
“By-your-sexist-command!”