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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: No Place to Lie Down! Gotta Run!
Published 1956
(Average: 6.67 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: No Place to Lie Down! Gotta Run!
Published 1956
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March 19th, 2019 at 9:17 am
Are you the keymaster?
March 19th, 2019 at 9:41 am
This gas station is making damn sure you don’t drive off with their restroom key.
March 19th, 2019 at 2:29 pm
This locating device is incredibly accurate. It will take you to within less than 12, yes I said 12, parsecs of your desired destination.
March 19th, 2019 at 2:54 pm
It looks like you’re escaping an evil dystopia.
Would you like help?
March 19th, 2019 at 2:57 pm
No place on earth to lie down…yes, a long layover in an airport does suck.
March 19th, 2019 at 3:00 pm
I’m calling perspective problems on this one. Is that a giant key BEHIND YOU!? Or is it a normal-sized key and chain that they are staring at, in horror, in the foreground?
March 19th, 2019 at 4:06 pm
You can lie down right there. Plenty of space. Might not want to go to sleep what with standard Sci-Fi health and safety regulations in force but five minutes on your back’s not going to kill you.
March 19th, 2019 at 4:44 pm
Constantly losing your keys because you’re on the run with no place on earth to lie down? Everybody is talking about this simple solution!
March 19th, 2019 at 5:16 pm
What ring key dink artwork.
March 20th, 2019 at 12:53 am
As in so many SF futures, “railings” seem to have become a lost art.
Not “nowhere to hide”, but “no place to lie down?” So They get you when you’re sleeping?
Who They are is unclear: a golden key, a golden ring-shaped object…are they running from some sort of Space Marriage Proposal?
@Tat Wood, @Verylatetotheparty: I believe all I can say is GSS!
March 20th, 2019 at 1:34 am
Is that the giant key to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude? Why is it hovering?
Why is there no place to lie down? Looks like ample room for both of them to have a bit of a kip there as long as they don’t roll over too far. But it seems to imply that her kneeling is dangerous as well.
If they stop running and lie down, does the giant key/manacle catch them? Do both of them have commitment issues and are running from a wedding ring attached to a key that’s flying at them from the front? Or is the ring fleeing from them and they don’t have locksmiths in the future either? Nowhere to lie down when you’re locked out of your house?
Why doesn’t the key/ring combo have swoosh lines like the cover?
There’s some rockets up left — are they traveling to a planet where you can lie down?
Gord really was outstanding in a field by himself — where was that blurb when it was needed?
Here’s a description which explains some of the art, but not why it involves “mankind” running instead of just these two.
https://www.amazon.com/Run-Gordon-R-Dickson-ebook/dp/B00HSBNSDU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
March 20th, 2019 at 3:30 am
@GSSxn—I think that’s where he was finally able to lie down, exhausted after a terrible bout of the runs, and unable, what’s worse, to insert the enormous key into the gas station restroom lock.
March 22nd, 2019 at 2:59 pm
Get up or that chastity belt & key are gonna chastise you!
March 24th, 2019 at 10:16 pm
@A-S: That explains their expressions. She’s thinking of how uncomfortable it will be, and he’s thinking it means he won’t be able to shag the blonde any more.
Or, being the future, maybe the other way around.
March 26th, 2019 at 4:39 pm
I could feel the wind rushing through my hair when I read the word ‘RUN’.
April 16th, 2019 at 7:44 pm
“I KNEW we shouldn’t have put the key on the collar of our invisible, barely-controllable rabid dog!”
April 17th, 2019 at 3:07 am
@ Anna – Welcome back. I was worried you went Dead Stuff With Big Teeth on us.
October 4th, 2019 at 10:15 pm
The prophetic novel MANKIND ON THE RUN correctly predicted the jogging craze of the 1970s.. but its unfortunate speculation about an alien invasion of giant, sentient key chains ruined sales.