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Click for larger imageGunther Comments: “I am Observer. But you can call me Brain Guy!”
Published 1974
(Average: 6.44 out of 10)
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Gunther Comments: “I am Observer. But you can call me Brain Guy!”
Published 1974
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August 15th, 2019 at 10:15 am
The new improved Dalek only got one thing right.
August 15th, 2019 at 10:36 am
“Is this Planet Arous?”
August 15th, 2019 at 1:00 pm
No, it’s probably just got something in its pocket.
(Thank’s THX 1139 I’ve waited forever to use that line.)
August 15th, 2019 at 1:40 pm
It will take a genius to think of using tear gas.
Review/back cover.
‘Another clue to what view of humanity Faucette is trying to transmit to us is the names of Terran space ships. Dane Barclay’s flagship is “ITSN starship Ravisher, one of the Rapist class battle wagons….” In a later scene the Terrans refurbish a hospital ship called Patcher, tossing out all the medical equipment, installing missile launchers in their place and rechristening her Molester.’
http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2015/12/siege-of-earth-by-john-faucette.html
August 15th, 2019 at 2:13 pm
Second in a series of two. It’s a “bilogy”:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?24386
August 15th, 2019 at 6:23 pm
@Francis Boyle: You sure that’s new and improved? I don’t think the rest of them would agree with you. Not enough “murder pepperpot”.
Anyways, exposed brains clearly make this lot vulnerable to severely deadly sunburn, so I don’t think Earth has too much to worry about if they can just get them into the sunlight unprotected.
August 15th, 2019 at 6:41 pm
The full series is multi-faucetted.
August 15th, 2019 at 7:16 pm
@Anna T: still better than the New Paradigm ‘Teletubby’ Daleks of 2010.
August 16th, 2019 at 12:06 am
Note to self: brain jelly moulds. Surefire money maker.
August 16th, 2019 at 12:22 am
When the cover artist got this assignment, the working title was “TEN”.
August 16th, 2019 at 12:34 am
Judging by the position of the eye and the corpus callosum, the brain-spider has a design flaw if it ever has to walk.
However, in deference to tradition, his Minions are in yellow.
August 16th, 2019 at 1:22 am
I think that’s a brain-powered landing module rather than a spider or an alt-Dalek. Must be a cozy ride for two.
Is that planet in the background exploding, or does it have a big glowy hole in it?
Or a mouth?
(Looks at the bigger picture)
Are those _nails_ in their heads?
“We have such sights to show you.”
August 16th, 2019 at 7:25 am
Blurb and art disagree again: no Earth, no one man. Also, if that’s all the attack force, we’ve got a really good chance.
“Second in a series” sounds so much better than “last of these hackworks”.
@fred: Charming. Subtle.
August 16th, 2019 at 1:27 pm
@Anna T
Well, it’s got legs that’s one thing. There is no second thing.
August 17th, 2019 at 12:36 am
It’s Dalek meets lunar lander meets exposed brain meets cyclops, in green.
Which is to say, a ludicrous mess of “skiffy” cliche art.
@Tag Wiz: GSS for the exclamation point.
August 20th, 2019 at 8:50 am
I like how this cover really conveys that space is vast and full of empty voids. And how astronomers must use powerful telescopes to find the author’s name in all that empty space.