Aug 26
Click for larger imageRaoul Comments: The time is now! Oh wait, no. Now! Let’s check again. Yeah. It’s NOW!
Published 1965
(Average: 7.44 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: The time is now! Oh wait, no. Now! Let’s check again. Yeah. It’s NOW!
Published 1965
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August 26th, 2019 at 10:15 am
“I’ve forgotten something very important, haven’t I?”
August 26th, 2019 at 12:24 pm
Escape from Disneyland.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:29 pm
They’re pinkshirts. They’re bound to get a stubbed toe or a grazed elbow or something. But that’s what you get when you crew your starship with refugees from the local Rotary club.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:43 pm
This has to be the worst dodgeball team I’ve ever seen
August 26th, 2019 at 1:25 pm
Someone just had a Jar-Jar premonition.
’20th Century Fox, the studio behind the original Star Wars trilogy, has won the rights the new prequel films.’
https://www.eonline.com/news/36203/first-look-the-news-in-brief-april-3-1998
August 26th, 2019 at 2:26 pm
Oh my god! It happened to me too. The time is NOW, but the date on my newspaper is August 26, 2019!
August 26th, 2019 at 2:29 pm
@Bibliomancer – What’s a newspaper?
August 26th, 2019 at 2:58 pm
The three guys behind him have those collars you give dogs so they don’t bite themselves or passers-by. They think that the Street Mime virus may be transmissible and want to protect the public if they contract it while apprehending this victim..
August 26th, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Wilfred and the Globules sing their number one smash hit, “The Moon Seems Way Too Close”, tonight at Harlequin Castle.
August 26th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
You know, I don’t think that bubble helmets alone will be sufficient protection against whatever’s got the guy in white reacting like that.
August 26th, 2019 at 5:56 pm
Months of having only MeTV for company enable me to identify the pink-shirts, at least tentatively:
(L-R) William Schallert, Dabbs Grier, Werner Klemperer (with monocle). And the orange mime is either David Hedison or Mark Goddard (assuming they aren’t the same person).
August 26th, 2019 at 6:25 pm
Bad enough that the time is NOW, but I think also the place is HERE, though my newspaper says it’s Fargo, North Dakota!
August 26th, 2019 at 7:05 pm
Dick’s Out of Joint
August 27th, 2019 at 3:37 am
Obtaining a helmet and avoiding death by suffocation depended on his successfully “getting down” in the next sixty seconds.
August 27th, 2019 at 4:37 am
Mr. xn’s probably got a newspaper from April 3, 1998 around here (Yes, it’s an ongoing argument).
@fred: No wonder he looks so horrified!
@Tat: It is difficult to decide if they’re cones of shame or bubble helmets — but either might help protect the bowling team from Mime Man.
@Tat (11): Heh. That is absolutely William Schallert. Or at least his head.
While this may have been this book’s first paperback publication, I’m wondering about the rest of the blurb; by the time this edition came out, “The Man in the High Castle” had already appeared and won the Hugo.
September 1st, 2019 at 9:25 pm
I only wish that this novel (which is very good) really was as “talked about” in 1965 as the cover text claims… but I doubt it. Most people at the time probably talked more about bestsellers by Alistair McLean or Harold Robbins… or Heinlein’s STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
(I wrote a scathing review of Heinlein’s mega-bestseller here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZEVNKHV7O/ )
September 3rd, 2019 at 6:18 am
@ARY: agreed on what people talked about then — it wasn’t this book, either by the average public or SF readers.
I see your review pictures the unabridged edition, which is even more tedious than the original published version. It even has a crappier opening sentence to boot! Doesn’t affect your points, however. And your point 3 is very well taken, though you left out the… er… regressive attitudes towards gay people too.