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Click for larger imageBibliomancer Comments: Wrong button, robot husband. I said push that one to start the coffee maker.
Published 1965
(Average: 6.60 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Wrong button, robot husband. I said push that one to start the coffee maker.
Published 1965
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October 1st, 2018 at 9:31 am
It’s way, wa-a-ay into the fuuture. Continental drift has moved South America north of the Equator and the Rachel haircut’s come back.
October 1st, 2018 at 11:44 am
“We’ll make the Earth flat if it kills us!”
October 1st, 2018 at 11:47 am
I think a fiendish robot would have a mouth full of fiendish teeth, assuming the robot is the ‘he’.
October 1st, 2018 at 2:07 pm
“Let’s see what happens if we make the day equal two seconds!”
October 1st, 2018 at 3:31 pm
“Hit the button one more time, please. I want to make sure my ex is completely obliterated.”
October 1st, 2018 at 3:41 pm
That robot’s got some damn skinny legs.
October 1st, 2018 at 3:51 pm
The last time I saw something like that happened to the Earth it involved Superman. Or Daleks. Maybe Supes is protecting the Earth from Daleks. It’s a toss up who’d do more damage, but my money would be on Superman.
October 1st, 2018 at 3:56 pm
Alternate title: THIS WONTON EARTH
October 1st, 2018 at 4:25 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Good one. I wonder if this book had any spin-offs?
October 1st, 2018 at 5:41 pm
She needs the robot’s help with the computer, because she doesn’t understand sine language.
October 1st, 2018 at 5:44 pm
She’s clearly explaining the robot’s new duties to it.
As for what that thing out the window vaguely resembling Earth is, not sure. A fake planet, maybe?
October 1st, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Just don’t set your coffee on that work surface, or the mug is going to slide right into the tape drive.
October 1st, 2018 at 7:11 pm
@Lillie A—There is some weird spatial distortion going on, for sure. I just noticed that the flattening Earth appears to be inside the room. That’s either a really big room or a really tiny planet!
October 1st, 2018 at 9:51 pm
In this future there are no plain black or white push buttons. In this future there is still color blindness, resulting in “Sorry, Earth.”.
October 1st, 2018 at 11:33 pm
@Tat (1): Not only that, but South America’s shrunk, even though it should appear bigger thanks to being on the edge of the ‘splodey bit.
What could possibly be the purpose of the pink rings and swooshy curvy bits? They seem to be just cluttering the place up. Are they some sort of theramin she’s playing, for which the sound waves are registering on the oscilloscope set above the antiquated tape drives and what might be VU meters below the tapes?
Is the bot encouraging her in her musical/planet-destroying endeavors? Is this the futuristic version of fiddling while Rome burns?
I’m gonna have to agree we need a tag about the bad proportions/perspective. The whole thing is completely askew. Maybe it’s only a (bad) 3-D simulation of Earth that’s asploding inside that room?
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:33 am
“Complete and unabridged”
Whew, I’m so relieved that it’s not abridged. I don’t want to read a book titled “Th Xil s o Tim”….
October 2nd, 2018 at 8:23 pm
robotvoice
“By now, human, you are probably beginning to suspect that I am a fiend from the future and not a refugee from the past as you initially guessed. Logically speaking though… the idea that I, a hyper-intelligent robot, might be from the past was a foolish assumption on your part. Were I capable of emotion, I would feel embarrassment for your kind.”
/robotvoice
October 2nd, 2018 at 9:15 pm
(/robotvoice continues) “And since I am a fiend from the future, I have perfected the art, still only primitively developed in your time, of pretending to be interested in some randomly colored push button console while I stealthily give you a robot arm rub, thus bringing you ever closer to me and revealing [brrrrzzzxk, cllllick, buzzzzz] hmmmmm, perhaps I am not completely devoid of an emotional response apparatus after all.”
“Yes, I was about to ask—is that your sine wave curve or are you just glad to see me?”
August 24th, 2021 at 9:51 am
“I know he’s a cold, metallic robot from the future… but I CAN CHANGE HIM!”